Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center is pleased to announce The Wound Center of Niagara is a recipient of RestorixHealth’s Center of Excellence award.

RestorixHealth’s highest achievement, the Center of Excellence Award distinguishes centers that have demonstrated exceptional success by meeting or exceeding clinical, operational and financial benchmarks in different categories, including healing outcomes and safety, along with a patient satisfaction rate of 95 percent or higher. The Wound Center of Niagara is one of the four centers that has achieved this designation.

“This accreditation reaffirms the quality of care that the Wound Center of Niagara provides its patients every day,” said Medical Director Michael Mitchell, M.D. “We are proud to be a recipient of an award that recognizes the hard work and dedication of our staff.”

Memorial Medical Center’s wound center is dedicated to optimizing outcomes and preventing lower limb loss in those patients with chronic, non-healing wounds. The approach to wound care is aggressive and comprehensive, coordinating traditional and advanced therapies and techniques that are proven to reduce healing time and improve healing rates.

The center is staffed with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians along with nurses and technicians with advanced training in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Integrating a team of wound care professionals optimizes patient care while offering the most advanced healing options.

The Hospital Wound Center is located at 620 10^th St. and is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please call 716-278-4424.

About Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center is a 171-bed regional hospital system serving patients from Western New York, Southern Ontario and beyond.  Its inpatient services include cardiac, stroke, medical-surgical and behavioral health care.  Satellite sites, including six primary care physician offices and the new Golisano Center for Community Health, provide a full range of medical, diagnostic and mental health services. For more information, visit NFMMC.org.

About RestorixHealth

RestorixHealth, a leading wound care management company, develops and manages centers of excellence for amputation prevention, wound management and hyperbaric medicine. Forging strong relationships with their partners, RestorixHealth provides high quality, cost-efficient solutions to wound care that offer advanced treatment therapies along with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Founded by physicians in 1997 to treat the growing incidence of chronic, non-healing wounds, RestorixHealth’s centers utilize a quality- and data-driven approach to consistently achieve high treatment success rates, resulting in a dramatic improvement in patient quality of life. The company currently manages comprehensive centers throughout the United States in partnership with hospitals and health care facilities. For more information, visit www.restorixhealth.com.

Construction began this week on a new $4.3 million inpatient Cardiac/Stroke Care unit at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.

The 12,950-square-foot unit is being built on the now-vacant third floor of the medical center’s Schoellkopf Building and will replace a 40-year-old telemetry unit on the hospital’s fourth floor. The unit will feature 25 private rooms, including six higher acuity step-down rooms for patients who require a more acute level of care and monitoring. A rehabilitation therapy facility will be located on the unit to encourage quicker patient recovery and avoid the need to transport patients to the medical center’s first floor physical therapy department.

Construction will take about a year to complete.

This marks the second major construction project to begin at Memorial in October. Work began earlier this month on a $2.2 million cardiac catheterization laboratory in The Heart Center of Niagara – a collaborative initiative being undertaken in conjunction with Catholic Health, Erie County Medical Center Corp. and Kaleida Health. The projects are major components of a Full Circle of Heart Care program for Niagara County that begins with education and prevention, actively seeks treatment breakthroughs and promotes best practices in care.

Niagara Falls Memorial was the first Niagara County medical center to be designated as a stroke center by the New York State Department of Health and has been recognized several times by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association for its success in using Get With The Guidelines® to improve quality of care for heart disease and stroke patients.

Most recently, the medical center received the 2016 Get With the Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award, which recognizes the hospital’s commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

Pictured: From left, Stroke Center Medical Director Dr. Nyathappa Anand; Stroke Clinical Coordinator Alicia Scott, RN, MSN, ANP-C; Mike Ryan of Telco Construction; Chief of Cardiology Dr. Sachin Wadhawan; Cardiology Services Director Melissa Rackmil, RN, BSN; and Nurse Manager Janet Kundl, RN review plans for the new $4.3 million inpatient Cardiac/Stroke Care unit at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.

The middle school students at the Niagara Academy have recently taken their learning to a higher level.

As part of their Technology class, with teacher John Vogt, the class built rockets powered by water and compressed air, capable of shooting 500 feet into the air.  The students constructed the rockets out of pop bottles and foam board and applied what they learned about Newton’s Laws of Motion and principles of flight.

“The common reaction from the students was it was a blast!” says Mr. Vogt.

Technology teacher John Vogt with student Mario Handley as he launches his rocket.

Class members Trevor Herman, Irving Berkhardt and Mario Herman showing off their rockets.

The Niagara LaSalle Lodge #132 F.&A.M. held their Annual Motorcycle Dice Run and Classic Car Show this past Saturday, raising money for charity and having a great time doing so!

Stay tuned for more information on upcoming events and happenings by visiting www.mason132.com

Read the Niagara Gazette article detailing the day’s events: http://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/masons-hosting-dice-run-and-car-show-sunday/article_fbe1face-db97-5f78-8c8c-d6b26b81a18d.html