Patient Stories
These patients from the Brainerd-Baxter area were patients at CentraCare. Learn more about their experiences.
Brain and Spine Care:
Zach Kruchten
Heart Care:
Jay Kline
Doug Rach
CentraCare Specialty Clinic - Baxter offers a variety of specialty care services all together in one convenient location.
Brain and Spine Care
CentraCare Neurosciences helps patients with brain, spine and nerve disorders. Our specially trained neurosurgery team cares for patients with:
- Acute back and neck pain
- Brain tumors
- Aneurysms and other vascular malformations
Meet our neurosurgery providers, Joseph Chabot, DO, and John Baker, APRN, CNP, who see patients in Baxter.
Heart Care
The CentraCare Heart & Vascular Center is dedicated to the prevention, discovery and management of cardiovascular disease. In Baxter, we care for patients with:
- Coronary artery disease
- Advanced heart failure
- Atrial fibrillation and other heart rhythm problems
- Pacemakers/ICDs
- Valve disease
- Vascular issues
- Risk factors related to heart or vascular problems
Kidney Care
Nephrologists care for patients with acute and chronic Kidney disease.
CentraCare Kidney Program offers the following services at our Baxter location:
- Renal replacement therapy, including chronic hemodialysis at 10 locations throughout Central Minnesota, including Brainerd and Staples
- Kidney transplant follow-up care
- Evaluation and treatment for complications of chronic kidney disease, hypertension and electrolyte disorders
- Evaluation of recurrent kidney stones
Plastic Surgery
As one of the Upper Midwest's leading providers of advanced medical skin care and cosmetic services, Midsota Plastic Surgeons offers these services at our Baxter location:
- Botox and fillers
- Consults and post-op appointments for breast, body, facial and other cosmetic procedures
- Minor procedures such as lesion removal and laceration repair
Rheumatology
CentraCare Rheumatology physicians provide care in Baxter for arthritis and auto-immune diseases, such as gout and lupus.
Urology
As the only full-service urology clinic in Central Minnesota, CentraCare Clinic - Adult & Pediatric Urology provide services for:
- Urinary incontinence
- Pelvic floor disorders
- Urinary tract infections
- Kidney stones
- Bladder and kidney cancers
- Prostate disease
- Prostatitis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Vasectomy and reversals
- Male and female sexual dysfunction related to urologic conditions
- Transvaginal mesh complications and other urology-related procedures involving complex reconstruction
Wound Care
CentraCare Wound Center offers specialty wound care management in an outpatient setting. The center uses a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach to treat those suffering from slow-to-heal or non-healing wounds.
Serves patients with:
- Diabetic ulcers
- Venous ulcers
- Pressure ulcers
- Arterial ulcers
- Wounds still present after recent revascularization procedures
- Wound or tissue damage as a result of radiation therapy in the past
- Bone infections
- Compromised skin grafts and flaps
- Wounds that haven't healed within 30 days
Treatment options:
- Vascular evaluation
- Wound debridement
- Cellular- or tissue-based product application
- Compression therapy
- Pressure off-loading
- Specialty wound care dressings and negative pressure wound therapy
