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The state has approved plans by Erie County Medical Center for a new hyperbaric wound-care center.

State Health Department officials approved a plan in late May for an $850,000 centralized hyperbaric and wound care center in a 3,500-square-foot space on the hospital’s ground floor.

ECMC plans to partner with a Diversified Clinical Services Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla., the largest wound care company in the nation. The firm operates at more than 300 sites nationwide through collaborations with hospitals.

The therapy will complement services already offered in the hospital’s burn unit and rehab center.

The project includes the installation of two monoplace hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers, which use pressurized oxygen to treat a variety of wounds, including burns, diabetes-related injuries and vascular wounds, where patients are slow to heal because of poor blood flow.

The new center is expected to start up this summer.

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