RestorixHealth Announces 2025 Center Recognition Awards Program Recipients

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RestorixHealth Announces 2025 Center Recognition Awards Program Recipients

2026-02-17 00:00 Last Updated At：13:38

METAIRIE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 16, 2026--

RestorixHealth, the nation’s leading wound care solutions company, is pleased to announce the wound and hyperbaric center recipients of their Center Recognition Awards program for the awards period July-December 2025. These prestigious awards demonstrate a center’s commitment to the highest quality of patient care, optimal outcomes and patient satisfaction over a six-month period.

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“Our Center Recognition Awards program celebrates our highest performing centers across several recognition categories,” said Blake Kostka, Vice President, Clinical & Professional Services for RestorixHealth. “The effort and dedication by the recipients to consistently achieve and exceed these benchmarks exemplifies the high-quality care provided at RestorixHealth-affiliated centers across the nation.”

Key benchmarks for recipients include 32 median days to heal, a 92% healing rate and a 96% patient satisfaction score among other strenuous key performance indicators. There are five awards available to eligible centers:

“On behalf of the RestorixHealth Executive Leadership Team, I congratulate our award-winning centers for their exceptional performance in patient satisfaction, clinical distinction and operations,” added Chief Operating Officer Therese Hernandez.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. William H. Tettelbach continued, “We are continually inspired by the clinical discipline and professionalism demonstrated by these centers. Their performance reflects a deep commitment to exceptional, evidence-driven wound care, patient safety and equitable access, ensuring patients receive the right care—at the right time—delivered by highly engaged multidisciplinary teams.”

For a complete list of Center Recognition Awards recipients, please visit www.restorixhealth.com/awards/.

About RestorixHealth

Committed to excellence in wound care, RestorixHealth is the wound care solutions company providing programs, services, products and education across the care continuum. From developing and operating wound centers in partnership with hospitals, through delivering professional wound care in nursing facilities and in-home settings, to supporting patients through the coordination of wound supplies, RestorixHealth’s solutions increase access to care, reduce hospital admissions and most importantly, improve patient outcomes and quality of life. For more information, visit www.RestorixHealth.com.

Shooting at a Seattle food festival leaves 2 dead and wounds 5, fire official says

SEATTLE (AP) — A shooting killed two people and wounded five including a child on Sunday evening during a popular food festival near the Space Needle in Seattle, a city fire department spokesperson said.

The gunfire erupted around 6 p.m. in the waning hours of the Bite of Seattle, an annual festival that draws hundreds of food and retail vendors and performers. Police were investigating the shooting and urged people to avoid the area just northwest of downtown. Authorities did not immediately say if anyone was in custody.

Two people died at the scene, said Grace Nuñez, spokesperson for the Seattle Fire Department.

Five patients were transported to Harborview Medical Center, including a 56-year-old woman in serious condition, Nuñez said.

A 2-year-old boy, a 23-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman are in stable condition, while a 40-year-old woman had minor injuries, she said.

A large number of police and emergency crews responded and began evacuating the area around the sprawling Seattle Center events campus. Authorities have not said where exactly the shooting occurred at the event, which had outdoor and indoor areas.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said he was receiving briefings and State Patrol SWAT officers were deployed to assist local police.

“My prayers are with the families of the victims, and the responders as they work to keep people safe,” Ferguson said in a statement.

Faith Adia Hunter said she and her friends had just gotten food from a crepe vendor when gunfire broke out. She realized a shooter was near them.

“We were right next to him when it started so we took off running,” Hunter said. “So we took off running too into the building with the crowd.”

She and others found shelter in the nearby Seattle Children’s Museum, Hunter said.

In the chaos of the shooting, many vendors bolted toward the exits, abandoning their food stands. Hours afterward, some milled outside the police tape, wondering when they would be allowed to return to collect their tents, food and cooking gear.

Roberto Ramirez, a vendor at the event, said he heard what sounded like firecrackers before people began yelling “shooter” and frantically running.

“Suddenly everything was empty,” he said. “People were freaked out.”

After the initial panic, new guests continued to arrive unaware of what had happened and were told by police to leave, he said.

Estan Wakonabo said he and his girlfriend were at the festival waiting in line for a photo booth when he was shoved from behind and he turned to see a rush of people fleeing.

“People were hiding, were pushing, people were falling on the ground, baby strollers were falling,” Wakonabo said, adding that was when he heard gunshots.

“Once I heard a ‘pop, pop, pop,’ that’s when I knew it was a shooter,” he said.

After he escorted his girlfriend to safety, he returned to the scene to make photos and saw multiple victims on the ground, Wakonabo said.

The annual festival started in 1982 and draws 350,000 attendees over “three days of food, drink, and community celebration,” according to its website.

Associated Press journalists Manuel Valdes and Lindsey Wasson in Seattle, Annika Wolters in Bangkok and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.