RUMFORD – With Dr. P.A. Aslam as medical director and Barbara MacGregor, RN, as wound care nurse, Rumford Hospital will kick off a new wound care clinic on Thursday, May 1. The clinic will be held every Thursday in the specialty clinic area on the second floor of the hospital.

The clinic will serve patients with such problems as diabetic foot ulcers, burns, post-operative wounds and pressure sores.

“Most people will make several visits to the clinic so that we can follow through until their wound is healed,” said MacGregor. The exceptions may be people who come for diagnosis using the non-invasive equipment that Aslam has brought to the hospital or who need assessments to pinpoint arterial blockages.

“This clinic will allow people, who in the past would have had to travel some distance to Farmington or Lewiston, to be diagnosed and treated right here in the River Valley,” said MacGregor.

MacGregor was the first wound clinic nurse at Franklin Memorial Hospital and worked there for seven years. She is also a certified diabetes educator, and that is her role at Rumford Hospital most of the time.

A nurse for 22 years, MacGregor earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Southern Maine and began her nursing career at as a charge nurse at Rumford Hospital before moving to Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, then Franklin.

“It’s good to be back working in my own community, serving my neighbors,” said MacGregor, who lives in Rumford with her husband and daughter.