Wound Care Registered Nurse
818 active US providers register Wound Care Registered Nurse as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 413th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 163WW0000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Providers
- Classification
- Registered Nurse
- Specialization
- Wound Care
- Active providers
- 818
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
Definition to come...
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 80 | |
| Florida | 73 | |
| Texas | 62 | |
| Illinois | 34 | |
| New York | 32 | |
| Ohio | 30 | |
| Georgia | 27 | |
| Minnesota | 25 | |
| Arizona | 24 | |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | |
| Wisconsin | 22 | |
| Virginia | 21 | |
| Colorado | 21 | |
| Massachusetts | 19 | |
| Missouri | 19 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
508 of these are people and 310 are organisations, so 38% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2023, and 521 registered in the last five years, 64% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN12
- LAS VEGAS, NV11
- CHICAGO, IL9
- AUSTIN, TX9
- ST PETERSBURG, FL8
- SAN ANTONIO, TX8
- HOUSTON, TX8
- MILWAUKEE, WI7
- PALO ALTO, CA6
- PHILADELPHIA, PA6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Wound Care Registered Nurse most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ostomy Care Registered Nurse | 60 | 7.3% |
| Registered Nurse | 39 | 4.8% |
| Continence Care Registered Nurse | 28 | 3.4% |
| Family Nurse Practitioner | 18 | 2.2% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 18 | 2.2% |
| Home Health Registered Nurse | 18 | 2.2% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 18 | 2.2% |
| Enterostomal Therapy Registered Nurse | 17 | 2.1% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Registered Nurse.
- Ambulatory Women's Health Care Registered Nurse788
- Oncology Registered Nurse779
- Infusion Therapy Registered Nurse938
- Maternal Newborn Registered Nurse664
- Gerontology Registered Nurse644
- Neonatal Intensive Care Registered Nurse522
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.