Consultants' corner: Jim Curtis & Associates
Jim Curtis
Contact info
- Address:
- 617 SE 19th Ave
Portland, OR 97214 - Telephone:
- 503-490-2948
Jim Curtis & Associates is a consulting firm in Portland, Oregon, that provides management, regulatory, technical, and clinical consulting services to dialysis facilities and manufacturers. Home dialysis is the specific area of passion for the Founder, Jim Curtis, as he started his career in dialysis when his mother began home hemodialysis in 1967 in Eugene, Oregon.
JC&A can provide assistance with every aspect of a home dialysis program. The services we provide include:
- Completing the CMS forms for starting a new dialysis program, or adding a home dialysis modality to an existing program.
- Developing home dialysis procedures consistent with your in-center policies.
- Developing pro-forma for anticipated profit/loss of a new home dialysis program.
- Assisting with maximizing reimbursement and billing issues, through working relationship with Dialysis Consulting Group, a billing specialist.
- Training your trainers to teach patients how to dialyze at home.
- Helping you evaluate dialysis machines and water treatments systems for use in home hemodialysis.
- Providing ongoing support of your Home Dialysis Program.
- No Charge for simple telephone consults!
Jim Curtis has a lifelong interest in home dialysis. His "chores" in high school included rebuilding a Kiil dialyzer and performing minor machine maintenance on the Drake-Willock 4002 dialysis machine.
For the last 30 years, Jim has worked in all aspects of dialysis, including direct patient care, machine maintenance, and Technical Manager of a large hospital facility (550 patients) as well as Area Manager for a national dialysis provider, overseeing the operations of five dialysis facilities.
When at the hospital in Portland, Jim managed the logistics for a home dialysis program that included 80 home hemo patients and 50 peritoneal patients. As Area Manager for the national company, he started a new home dialysis program, which had the first nocturnal dialysis patient in the northwest for that company.
Jim started his consulting business in February 2004. JC&A provides consulting services to dialysis facilities and develops education material for the Northwest Renal Network. Jim is also co-founder of Home Dialysis Plus, LTD, which is developing new technology to improve home hemodialysis.
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