Pressure injuries (bedsores)
Stage 1 through stage 4 pressure ulcers on the sacrum, heels, hips, and shoulders. We treat the wound and fix the cause: repositioning schedules, offloading surfaces, nutrition, and moisture control.
Mobile wound care nursing · North Texas
Wound care at home — measured, documented, and actually healing
Pressure injuries, diabetic foot ulcers, surgical incisions, and venous ulcers treated in your own home by wound-trained Texas nurses. No clinic drive, no transfer risk, no guessing between visits.
- Visits can start within 24 hours
- Wound vac and compression management
- Photo-tracked healing progress
- Insurance and private pay accepted
Why wounds stall — and why home care changes the outcome
A wound that is not healing is almost never just a dressing problem. It is a pressure problem, a circulation problem, a blood sugar problem, a protein problem, or an infection nobody has cultured yet. Clinics see the wound for fifteen minutes every other week. A home wound care nurse sees the mattress, the recliner the patient sleeps in, the shoes, the refrigerator, and the family member doing dressing changes on the days between visits. That is where the actual cause usually lives.
Our nurses assess and measure at every visit — length, width, depth, undermining, tissue type, drainage, odor, and surrounding skin — and photograph the wound so progress is a record rather than an impression. If a wound is not smaller in two weeks, that is a signal, and we escalate to the physician, the wound clinic, podiatry, or vascular before weeks are lost.
Home wound care also removes real risk. Getting a frail patient with a sacral ulcer into a car, across a parking lot, and onto an exam table costs hours of pressure, pain, and fall exposure for a treatment that could have been done in their own bed. For patients in Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington, and the surrounding North Texas communities, the nurse simply comes to the house. Call (817) 482-3900 and we will tell you honestly whether the wound is appropriate for home management.
Wounds we treat at home
Diabetic foot ulcers
The highest-stakes wound we see. Offloading, debridement coordination, glucose-aware healing plans, footwear checks, and fast escalation to podiatry or vascular when perfusion is the limiting factor.
Surgical and post-operative incisions
Dressing changes, staple and suture removal on physician order, incisional negative pressure management, and daily monitoring for dehiscence or early infection after discharge.
Venous and arterial leg ulcers
Compression therapy applied correctly and consistently, edema management, skin care for surrounding tissue, and coordination with vascular findings.
Traumatic wounds, skin tears, and burns
Fragile aging skin, falls, and minor burns treated with atraumatic dressings that protect the surrounding skin instead of stripping it at the next change.
Ostomy, tube, and drain sites
Peristomal skin protection, appliance fit problems, G-tube site irritation, and drain site care — the small problems that derail an otherwise good recovery.
What a home wound care visit includes
Every visit follows the physician's plan of care and ends with documentation the ordering provider can act on. Families get plain-language teaching so the days between visits do not undo the progress.
- Full wound assessment with measurement and staging
- Photo documentation and week-over-week healing tracking
- Advanced dressing selection: foam, alginate, hydrocolloid, silver, collagen
- Negative pressure wound therapy (wound vac) management
- Compression wrapping for venous ulcers
- Infection surveillance, cultures, and antibiotic coordination
- Pain management planning around dressing changes
- Nutrition and protein guidance to support tissue repair
- Caregiver teaching so between-visit care is done right
- Direct reporting to the physician or wound clinic
How we prevent the next wound, not just treat this one
Pressure and positioning
Turn schedules, heel offloading, cushion and mattress recommendations, and a walk-through of the chair and bed the patient actually uses all day.
Nutrition and hydration
Protein, calories, and fluid targets in real food terms. Tissue cannot rebuild without raw material, and this is the most commonly missed part of a wound plan.
Skin surveillance
Weekly head-to-toe skin checks catch stage 1 redness while it is still reversible — far cheaper and less painful than treating a stage 3.
Getting wound care started this week
Start with a phone call. Tell us where the wound is, how long it has been there, what dressing is being used, and who ordered it. If the patient was just discharged, the discharge paperwork usually contains everything we need. Our coordinator confirms the order with the physician, verifies your insurance benefits at no cost, and schedules the first nurse visit — often within 24 hours.
At the first visit the nurse completes a full assessment, sets the dressing plan, teaches the household, and establishes the visit frequency. You get the plan in writing along with the rate and expected coverage. From there, progress is tracked visit by visit and reported to the ordering provider, so nobody is left wondering whether the wound is improving.
Wound care pairs naturally with other services. Many families combine it with skilled nursing visits, on-demand private nursing care, or personal care hours for bathing and repositioning support between nurse visits.
North Texas communities we cover
Wound care at home: common questions
Can wound care really be done at home instead of a wound clinic?
For most chronic and post-surgical wounds, yes. A nurse can measure, debride within scope, apply advanced dressings, manage a wound vac, and photograph progress in the home — often more frequently than a clinic could see you, and without the transfer risk for a patient with limited mobility.
Do I need a doctor's order for home wound care?
Yes. Wound care is skilled nursing and follows a physician order and plan of care. If you were discharged with wound instructions, we can usually work from those and confirm details with the ordering provider the same day.
How often will the nurse visit?
Visit frequency follows the wound. Heavily draining or infected wounds may need daily or every-other-day visits at first, tapering to twice weekly and then weekly as the wound bed improves.
Is home wound care covered by insurance?
Physician-ordered skilled wound care is frequently covered when home health criteria are met. We verify your benefits at no cost and provide a written expectation of coverage plus any private pay rate before the first visit.
How long does a wound take to heal?
It depends on blood flow, nutrition, pressure, glucose control, and infection. A clean surgical incision may close in two to three weeks; a stage 3 pressure injury or diabetic ulcer can take months. We measure every visit so you can see whether the plan is working instead of guessing.
What are the warning signs I should call about immediately?
Spreading redness, new warmth, foul odor, sudden increase in drainage, fever, or a wound that gets larger between visits. Call (817) 482-3900 — an on-call nurse is available nights and weekends.
Wound not healing? Get it assessed.
A wound-trained nurse can be at the house within 24 hours.