Patients and families
Request help with primary care, wound care, or post-discharge follow-up.
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Primary care and wound care in Granite City & Madison, IL.
Granite City and nearby communities frequently require coordination across hospital discharge, chronic disease, mobility, wound, facility, and transportation barriers.
Care pathways in this area
Primary care, wound care, and follow-through are reviewed together.
- Primary-care continuity when the established PCP is unavailable, outside the network, or missing
- Wound evaluation and treatment support for common chronic, surgical, pressure, diabetic, venous, arterial, and traumatic wounds
- Post-hospital, post-surgical, and post-rehabilitation follow-up
- Clinical support across home, hospital discharge, skilled nursing, assisted living, rehabilitation, home health, and hospice
- Communication with hospitals, physicians, facilities, home health, patients, families, and caregivers
Why local coordination matters
Patients do not experience health care in neat organizational boundaries.
A person may leave one hospital, have a PCP in another network, receive home health from a separate agency, and live in a facility or household that needs added clinical support. Metro East Health provides a single Illinois-facing intake path designed to connect those pieces.
Hospitals and clinicians
Refer when PCP alignment, discharge continuity, wound complexity, or skilled capacity is the issue.
Start a professional referralFacilities and home health
Discuss added clinical reach, escalation pathways, wound support, and communication.
Explore partner pathwaysStart with the right path
Start with the patient’s location and current setting.
The intake team will review whether an available Metro East pathway fits the need and what information should move through a secure channel next.