On Thursday, June 10, 1999, a cooperative agreement was signed by Kettering Medical Center and Wright-Patterson AFB Medical Center. The agreement paved the way for the Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, which now operates the facility originally scheduled to close in October of 2000, due to down sizing at Wright-Patterson.

The Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center has one of the largest mulit-place hyperbaric chamber complexes in the country, with the ability to treat up to 18 patients per oxygen treatment. The facility was constructed in the 1980's at a cost of over 9 million dollars and until now, was only available to Department of Defense personnel.

Our center is currently participating in a randomized double blinded study to evaluate the effectiveness of hyperbaric therapy on children with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy. This is a three year joint study with Kettering Medical Center, Dayton Children's Medical Center, Wright State University, Wright Patterson AFB Medical Center and OxyHeal Health Group.

The Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center received a 4 year accreditation, with distinction, in April 2008 from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). It is one of only 18 Wound Care and Hyperbaric facilities in the USA to have received this honor to date, and is the only UHMS accredited facility in the state of Ohio.

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