Advanced wound treatment for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients, delivered wherever your patients call home. Our certified specialists travel across all 254 Texas counties to provide clinic-quality wound care on-site.
Statewide Coverage
Wound Care Specialists provides mobile wound care across all regions of Texas, from the Rio Grande Valley to El Paso, from rural West Texas to the major metropolitan areas. Our certified wound care specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences to deliver clinic-quality treatment on-site. In a state where 71 counties lack hospitals entirely and health access challenges span deserts and farmland, we bring specialized wound care directly to the patient.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is one of the nation's fastest-growing regions, home to nearly 7 million people and significant skilled nursing facility networks. We serve Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Irving, Denton, and surrounding North Texas counties. Our team provides regular scheduled visits to nursing homes and assisted living communities, delivering consistent specialized wound care that facility nursing staff simply cannot manage alone.
Houston and the surrounding Gulf Coast region are home to more than 7 million residents and multiple healthcare systems. We serve Houston, The Woodlands, Galveston, Beaumont, and communities throughout Southeast Texas. Many of these facilities operate with severe nursing shortages, making our mobile wound care partnership essential to prevent complications, reduce readmissions, and accelerate healing.
San Antonio, Austin, and Central Texas communities are experiencing rapid population growth that healthcare access has struggled to keep pace with. We serve San Antonio, Austin, New Braunfels, San Marcos, Waco, and surrounding communities. Our specialists work directly with home health networks and facility-based care teams across the region.
The Rio Grande Valley faces the most severe diabetes crisis in the nation. With diabetes prevalence reaching nearly 44% in some areas, roughly triple the national average, diabetic foot ulcers and related chronic wounds are endemic. We serve Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen, Edinburg, and the surrounding Valley counties. For patients in medically underserved communities where transportation to distant wound care centers is impossible, mobile wound care eliminates that barrier entirely.
El Paso and Far West Texas communities span vast geographic distances with serious healthcare access constraints. We serve El Paso, Odessa, Midland, and surrounding rural counties. Many of these regions lack the specialized wound care infrastructure found in larger metros, making our team a critical extension of limited local resources.
If you practice in a rural Texas community, you know the problem: the nearest wound care specialist might be 100 miles away. We serve small towns, rural counties, and communities where hospital closures have eliminated local healthcare options. In regions where nursing staff lack specialized wound care training and transportation is unreliable, we come to you. Our mobile team covers every region where our patients need us, regardless of population density.
The Challenge
43.95%
Rio Grande Valley diabetes prevalence (2024 data)
71
Texas counties without a hospital
88%
Texas counties designated as health professional shortage areas
Texas has a wound care access crisis. The scale of the problem is enormous, and it's getting worse.
The Rio Grande Valley faces the worst diabetes crisis in the nation. As of 2024, diabetes prevalence in the Rio Grande Valley reached 43.95%, nearly three times the national average of 14.7%. This is not a regional variation: it's a public health catastrophe. Roughly 15 to 25% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer during their lifetime, and those ulcers precede 80% of lower-extremity amputations. In the Rio Grande Valley, where diabetes is endemic and access to specialized care is scarce, diabetic foot ulcers frequently lead to amputation, lost mobility, and lost independence.
Beyond the Valley, Texas faces unprecedented healthcare access challenges across the entire state. Seventy-one Texas counties lack hospitals entirely. Eighty-eight percent of all Texas counties are designated as health professional shortage areas, meaning there are 3,500 or more patients for every primary care provider. Since 2005, Texas has lost 26 rural hospitals, the highest number of any state in the nation. Those closures have cost jobs, eliminated local emergency care, and left entire regions without basic access to hospitalization or specialized services.
Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and homebound patients across Texas cannot wait for appointments in distant wound care centers. Many cannot travel at all. For skilled nursing facilities, wound complications drive readmissions, survey violations, and delayed discharges. For home health agencies, complex wounds consume disproportionate nursing time. For patients living in rural counties with no hospitals and no specialists within driving distance, the only option for specialized wound care is the care we bring to them.
That's the gap Wound Care Specialists was built to close. We serve every region of Texas by bringing the wound care clinic to the patient, eliminating the transportation barrier, and giving healthcare facilities the specialized support their teams need but doesn't have time to provide.
Our Services
Every treatment plan starts with a thorough assessment by a board-certified wound care specialist. Based on the wound type, severity, and the patient's overall health, we develop an individualized protocol using evidence-based advanced therapies.
Pressure ulcers, venous leg ulcers, arterial ulcers, surgical wounds that won't close, and other chronic wounds that haven't responded to standard care. We assess, treat, and manage these cases from the patient's bedside, with regular progress tracking and reporting to the referring care team.
Learn more about wound debridement →Diabetic foot ulcers are the leading cause of non-traumatic lower-extremity amputations. Our limb preservation approach includes offloading, debridement, vascular assessment, and advanced therapies designed to heal the wound and prevent amputation.
Learn more about diabetic foot & limb salvage →For wounds that need additional biological support to heal, we apply advanced skin grafts and synthetic skin substitutes at the patient's location. No hospital visit required.
Learn more about skin substitutes & grafts →Removing dead or infected tissue is often the first step toward healing. Our specialists perform sharp, enzymatic, and autolytic debridement on-site as part of the treatment plan.
Learn more about debridement →Portable wound VAC systems that promote healing through controlled negative pressure, delivered and managed at the patient's home or facility.
Learn more about negative pressure therapy →Getting Started
Getting started takes two minutes. Here's what to expect.
Submit a referral through our HIPAA-compliant form or call us at (828) 351-6000. Tell us about the patient, the wound, and where they're located. The process is the same for patients and family members or loved ones of patients.
One of our wound care specialists visits the patient at their home, nursing facility, or assisted living community. During the first visit, we perform a comprehensive wound assessment, develop an individualized treatment plan, and begin care immediately when appropriate.
Treatment continues on a regular schedule based on the care plan. We chart everything, communicate progress directly to the referring provider or care team, and provide clear outcome reporting so everyone involved knows how healing is progressing.
Response time: We work to schedule initial consultations as quickly as possible. Availability varies by region, but our goal is to see new patients within days of receiving a referral.
For Healthcare Providers
If you're a home health agency, skilled nursing facility, hospice provider, or wound care clinic director reading this page, you already know the problem: chronic wounds consume disproportionate time, resources, and staff bandwidth.
Wound Care Specialists was built to be your partner and clinical extension of your existing team that handles specialized wound care, so your nurses can focus on their full scope of responsibilities.
Your nurses are stretched across dozens of patients. When a complex wound case comes in, a diabetic foot ulcer, a pressure injury that isn't healing, it pulls time away from every other patient on the caseload. We carry that load. Our specialists treat the wound, document everything, and report back to your team. Depending on the treatment plan, our involvement can actually reduce the number of skilled nursing visits required per wound patient.
Chronic wounds stall discharges, expose you to survey risk, and strain already-stretched nursing staff. We come to your facility, treat residents on-site, and produce survey-ready documentation aligned with CMS standards.
Your team signed up to provide comfort care. Wound management on top of an already demanding caseload pulls nurses away from what matters most. We handle the wound so your team can focus on the patient.
Patients who miss appointments aren't healing. We serve as a mobile extension of your clinic, treating homebound or transportation-limited patients wherever they are, coordinating care with your protocols, and reporting progress back to your team.
We provide mobile wound care across the entire state of Texas, from El Paso to Brownsville, from rural West Texas to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and every region in between. Our mobile specialists travel to nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and private residences. We serve all 254 Texas counties.
Yes. We accept Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial insurance plans. Coverage for mobile wound care services is generally the same as coverage for in-clinic wound care. Our team handles insurance verification and can walk you through what your plan covers before treatment begins.
We work to schedule initial consultations within days of receiving a referral. Timing depends on location and current scheduling, but we prioritize urgent wound cases and do our best to minimize wait times across all regions.
We treat chronic and complex wounds including diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers (bedsores), venous leg ulcers, arterial ulcers, surgical wounds that won't heal, and traumatic wounds. If a wound hasn't responded to standard treatment, that's exactly when specialized wound care makes the biggest difference.
No. Patients and family members can contact us directly. However, if you're a healthcare provider referring a patient, we have a streamlined HIPAA-compliant referral process that takes about two minutes.
Texas has 71 counties without hospitals, 88% of counties designated as health professional shortage areas, and the most rural hospital closures in the nation. Transportation to distant wound care centers simply isn't possible for many patients. Mobile wound care brings specialized treatment to the patient, whether they live in a major metro or a rural county three hours from the nearest clinic. We eliminate the transportation barrier that prevents so many Texans from receiving the specialized care they need.
We chart every visit, communicate progress directly to referring providers and clinical staff, and provide regular outcome reports. We're designed to work alongside your team. For skilled nursing facilities, we also produce survey-ready documentation aligned with CMS standards.
If you or a loved one has a chronic wound that isn't healing, you don't have to wait for a clinic appointment. Our specialists come to you, wherever you call home in Texas.