Aerial view of Vancouver General Hospital Campus

The clinic provides expert consultation in the management of outpatient chronic wound problems. Follow-up care may be maintained in the clinic, at your home, in a community clinic by home care nurses or a private office by the family doctor.

The Wound Healing Clinic sees patients with chronic but healable wounds and uncomplicated non-healing wounds. A chronic wound is an open wound or ulcer which has persisted for three months. 

How to access

  • Contact us

    Contact the office for more information about this service.

  • Get a referral

    Have your health-care provider fill out and submit the VGH Wound Healing Clinic referral form.

    Note to referring health-care providers: The patient must have an open wound. In-patients cannot be accommodated in this clinic.

Hours of operation

Currently closed
  • Monday:   Closed
  • Tuesday:   8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday:   Closed
  • Thursday:   Closed
  • Friday:   Closed
  • Saturday:   Closed
  • Sunday:   Closed

How to get here

This service is located on the 3rd floor of the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre at Vancouver General Hospital.

Resources

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)

Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) offers specialized health-care services to residents in Vancouver and across the province through regional programs. We provide a full range of basic and highly specialized emergency health-care and trauma services to British Columbia.

Wound Care

Wound care services provide assessment and consultation with wound care nurses for the medical management of chronic wounds.