SJEH Cuts Ribbon On Renovated Wound,Hyperbaric Unit
By Miriam Rosenberg
 | | The ribbon is cut on the expanded and renovated wound center. Pictured are Father Dennison Richards, Director of Pastoral Care at Bishop MacLean Nursing Home; The Right Reverend Orris G. Walker, Jr., Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, and President and Chairman of Episcopal Health Services Inc.; Mary Lou Tressy, representing Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer; The Venerable Canon Bernard O.D. Young, SJEH board member; Rabbi Zalman Baida of Pastoral Services at SJEH; John Gupta, CEO of SJEH; Lloyd Bardfeld, codirector of the Center; Anthony Vuozzo, SJEH's administrative director; and Dr. Gilbert Makabali, Center codirector and Chairman of Surgery. |
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With a simple snip of the scissors, St. John's Episcopal Hospital officially opened its Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine, after completion of an expansion and renovation that cost more than $1 million.
"We now have an ideal, beautiful center for the treatment of those who suffer from non-healing wounds," said Dr. Lloyd Bardfeld, the co-director of the Center and Chief of Podiatry at SJEH.
 | | Visitors inspect one of the two hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers in the center. |
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The Center's co-director and the hospital's Chairman of Surgery, Dr. Gilbert Makabali, added: "The Center is spacious and easily accessible for wheelchairs and provides comfortable accommodations for the high level of care and activity that goes on there."
The Center has several treatment rooms, a vascular laboratory, and two new hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers.
Diseases such as diabetes could cause non-healing wounds, which, in some cases, could lead to amputation. The Center works with patients to develop an in-hospital and home care treatment program.
 | | Mootoo Appodu (in wheelchair) and Winifred Granison had nothing but praise for the change the wound center has made in their lives. |
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 | | Phyllis Elefant, another patient at the wound center, thanked the doctors and said, "This is an amazing facility." |
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 | | Pictured is one of several examining rooms in the renovated wound center. |
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