UofL Health – UofL Hospital Burn Center provides multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient care for people with burn injuries, complex wounds and related skin conditions. Services include acute burn treatment, wound care, hydrotherapy, long-term follow-up, scar revision, rehabilitation, social work, psychiatry, nutrition, addiction medicine and chaplaincy. The center serves patients from the Louisville/Kentuckiana and broader tri-state region and supports patients and families through recovery.
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Burn Trauma Education and Training
ActiveProfessional and community education connected to the Burn Center, including Advanced Burn Life Support, burn-care education for EMS and emergency departments, pre-hospital burn-care training, transfer and resuscitation guidance, and the Stay Safe injury-prevention course for youth ages 8–17. Continuing-education credits are available for some professional courses.
Burn Trauma Patient Support Program
ActiveSupport for burn patients and families during recovery, including burn social-work crisis intervention, therapeutic interventions, referrals to community mental-health resources, connection to addiction recovery, advocacy, inpatient art therapy, music therapy, facility-dog support, chaplain services and caregiver support rounds. The page also points survivors toward Phoenix Society resources and outpatient burn care.
UofL Health – UofL Hospital Burn Center Acute and Inpatient Care
ActiveSpecialized burn-center care delivered by a multidisciplinary team for chemical, electrical, flame/thermal and scald burns, complex wounds and related skin conditions. Services include trauma and plastic surgery, nursing, hydrotherapy, physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, social services, psychiatry, nutrition, addiction medicine and chaplaincy. The center has an expanded 16-bed unit and provides all levels of treatment.
UofL Health – UofL Hospital Outpatient Burn Clinic
ActiveOutpatient burn and wound follow-up providing evidence-based treatment, long-term burn care, scar-management devices and coordination with outpatient rehabilitation. The clinic offers telehealth and in-person visits. Clinic hours are listed as Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to noon.
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For outpatient burn-clinic questions or appointments, call 502-588-0425 or 502-562-2876 and use the outpatient-clinic option, or email BurnClinic@UofLHealth.org. The clinic accepts referral information by phone or fax; referral materials should include patient information, an emergency-room report/burn summary, and current pain-medication and dressing-change orders. For possible hospital transfer, call the Access Center at 502-562-8008. Emergency situations should be handled through 911 or emergency care.