Mercy Burn Center - Springfield

Burn and fire-related education including fire-safety education for school children, fire-safety and first-aid courses, professional lectures, health and safety fairs, and ABLS certification classes for regional EMS providers, satellite hospitals, fire departments, and healthcare professionals.

Specialized occupational and physical therapy integrated into burn recovery. Occupational therapy addresses activities of daily living, compression garments, contracture prevention, scar management, splinting or casting, stretching, and upper-extremity range of motion. Physical therapy addresses mobility, endurance, positioning, strength, stretching, range of motion, and contracture prevention.

24/7 inpatient burn-center services for patients of all ages, including treatment of extensive flame, scald, chemical, electrical, radiation, cold-induced, and complicated wounds. Services include critical-care monitoring, wound care or hydrotherapy, fluid replacement, private recovery rooms, step-down and acute-care beds, and multidisciplinary clinical and supportive care.

Follow-up burn care for patients who do not require hospitalization, including wound care, rehabilitation, scar and contracture management, compression garments, casting, splints, and laser treatments. The clinic is staffed by burn surgeons and advanced practice providers.

Monthly burn-survivor and family support with in-person meetings, virtual meetings, one-on-one sessions, peer support, and email updates. Mercy states that meetings are held the first Thursday of each month from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Mercy Hospital Springfield in the Baggot Street Conference Room; virtual meeting timing is listed as to be determined.

A collaboration connecting specially trained burn survivors and their loved ones with people recovering from burns or caregivers. The Mercy page describes this as a survivor-support partnership but does not provide a separate local enrollment page or separate contact number.