Kate D’Orazio, PA-C, Joins Award-Winning Beaufort Memorial Wound Care Center

A longtime certified physician assistant in the Beaufort Memorial Pratt Emergency Center has joined the hospital’s Wound Care Center, also located on the main campus in Beaufort.

At the center, Kate D’Orazio, PA-C, treats patients with complex or nonhealing wounds resulting from disease, burns, trauma, surgery and immobility.

D’Orazio served as a full-time physician assistant in the emergency department from 2013 to 2023. Previously, she worked in inpatient internal medicine and primary care as well as emergency medicine.

“In my new role at the Wound Care Center, I look forward to providing a more specialized kind of care and to spending more time with my patients,” D’Orazio said.

The Connecticut native earned a Master of Science in physician assistant studies in 2009 from South University in Savannah and a Bachelor of Science in life science in 2005 from Penn State University in State College.

About the Wound Care Center

The Beaufort Memorial Wound Care Center is a recent recipient of Center of Distinction and President’s Circle awards bestowed by Healogics™, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care service, for the center’s outstanding clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction scores achieved over 12 consecutive months.

“We are extremely proud of the hard work and excellent care by our entire Wound Care Center team that these awards honor,” said Karen Carroll, DNP, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer at BMH, a member of the Healogics™ network of wound care centers.

Located in the Beaufort Medical Plaza, 989 Ribaut Road, Suite 220, Beaufort, the Beaufort Memorial Wound Care Center uses state-of-the-art modalities, including hyperbaric oxygen chambers, cellular-based skin products, advanced dressings and comprehensive case management, to promote the healing of a wide range of complex and nonhealing wounds. Its clinical team consists of D’Orazio and Dr. Deanna Mansker, a board-certified general surgeon and certified wound care specialist.

For more information on the center or to schedule an appointment, call 843-522-5300.