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St. Luke’s promotes DeSanto

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St. Luke’s has promoted Laura DeSanto to Clinical Program Director of St. Luke’s Advanced Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center.

DeSanto has been a nurse at St. Luke’s Advanced Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center since 2017, first joining St. Luke’s Cardiac unit as a nurse in 2015.

DeSanto earned her associate degree in nursing from Lake Superior College and her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

St. Luke’s Advanced Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center offers specialized wound care to patients suffering from ulcers, infections and other chronic, non-healing wounds. To learn more, visit slhduluth.com/WoundCare.

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