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About Our Company
HyOx Medical Treatment Center is a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility focused on hyperbaric medicine and wound care. HyOx opened its doors in 1999 with the mission of providing patient-centered rehabilitative care through hyperbaric oxygen therapy, respiratory therapy, physical therapy and complementary services, including counseling, education and social services.
HyOx is associated with the leading medical and professional organizations devoted to hyperbaric medicine and wound care, including:
• American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association
• The American College of Hyperbaric Medicine
• The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
• Divers Alert Network
• The American Academy of Wound Management
Each year, the HyOx team provides more than 2,500 hyperbaric oxygen treatments for various conditions, ranging from diabetes-related non-healing wounds and crush injuries to carbon monoxide poisoning and soft tissue damage from radiation. Board-certified physicians are available on site to supervise patient care and treatment schedules. Treatments are prescribed based upon the directives of the referring physician and the results of a comprehensive hyperbaric medicine consultation and evaluation.
About Our Services
Clinical excellence in hyperbaric oxygen therapy has made HyOx a highly recommended adjunctive rehabilitation center for patients with injuries, poisonings or disease in metro Atlanta and the Southeast. HyOx’s integrated approach includes physical therapy, social services and HBO2 therapy in Atlanta’s only walk-in, multi-patient hyberbaric chamber, the largest in Georgia. HyOx’s services are covered by all major insurance carriers, Medicare, TriCare, Workers Compensation and other medical payment providers.
Our full-service, multi-disciplinary facility treats patients with an integrated and personalized approach to medicine, providing:
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
• Rehabilitation Services
• Wound Care
• Social Services
• Nutritional Counseling
• Educational Programs
• Dive Physicals
About Our Team
The HyOx team is composed of senior-level, experienced healthcare professionals with decades of experience in hyperbaric medicine and technology, rehabilitative therapy, patient care and healthcare management and advocacy.
HyOx offers a unique patient experience based upon highly personalized treatment plans and an ongoing relationship with patients and their families. Patients receive a positive, consistent experience during their treatment course and follow-up care is provided to facilitate a total healing process.
HyOx’s medical team works in concert with other clinicians caring for the patient so that the hyperbaric treatments are coordinated with any other therapies. Throughout the course of treatment, regular progress reports are sent to the patient’s other physicians, including photographs documenting the patient’s progress.
For more information on the HyOx team, please visit the Meet Our Team page.
About Our Facility
HyOx is one of the United States’ first clinical hyperbaric oxygen therapy facilities to achieve accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), the field’s protocol and standard-setting organization.
HyOx operates Atlanta’s only open-environment, multi-patient hyperbaric chamber. A hyperbaric chamber, also known as a recompression chamber, is used to deliver oxygen to patients at greater than atmospheric pressure. The chamber is 9 feet in diameter and 31 feet long. During each hyperbaric treatment, patients are accompanied by medical personnel and are free to read, listen to their favorite CD, watch a video and enjoy refreshments.
Advantages of HyOx’s facility include:
• Spacious, “open” environment is non-claustrophobic
• Ability to stretch and walk, read, listen to CDs, watch videos, snack and socialize
• Access to any needed medication
• Temperature controlled environment
• Comfortable seating with footrests
• Accommodations for patients who must lay down
• Separate chamber restroom
For more information, contact Meridith Kelly at 678-303-3200 or by e-mail.