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| AGH Wound Healing Center Names Program Director |
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Rick Garlick has been named to lead the new Allegan General Hospital Wound Healing Center as program director.
Scheduled to open in early 2010, Allegan General Hospital’s Wound Healing Center will specialize in the treatment of chronic wounds and non-responsive conditions and offer hospital-based outpatient wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Garlick will be responsible for all aspects of the center’s operation including ensuring quality patient care, recruiting and hiring, compliance with federal and state guidelines, budgeting and fiscal policies, and marketing and sales.
A resident of Mattawan, Garlick was most recently employed by George S. May International Company which is among the largest of management consulting firms. Garlick has also held management and sales training positions with pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca and Merck & Company.
Garlick received a bachelor of science in sports medicine from Central Michigan University.
Allegan General Hospital’s Wound Healing Center is a National Healing Corporation Wound Center, which has earned the Joint Commission’s Disease-Specific Care Certification for wound care. For more information, call (269) 686-4325.
Allegan General Hospital is a community hospital that focuses on providing exceptional, compassionate and personalized healthcare to the community it serves. Allegan General provides a wide range of healthcare services, including bariatric, surgery, sleep center, emergency, physical rehabilitation and mental health. For more information on the hospital, visit www.aghosp.org.
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Rick Garlick,
Program Director |
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About National Healing Corporation
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., with offices in Tampa, National Healing Corporation provides management services and the latest technology and expertise in wound healing to its client hospitals to establish quality wound healing programs. The Joint Commission has awarded National Healing Disease-Specific Care Certification for wound care. Committed to health care compliance and best practice medicine, National Healing emphasizes these priorities in its extensive clinical and business training programs. The privately-held company accounts for 30 percent of all managed and outsourced wound centers in the United States. For more information, please visit www.nationalhealing.com. |
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