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- Have you recently started a home dialysis program at your center? If so, we'd like to share your experience with others and help spread the word about home dialysis!
Community Physicians Dialysis Center Fairborn (CPDCF); Fairborn, OH
In fall, 2004, CPDCF received approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Ohio Department of Health to begin a home hemodialysis program. Read more »
DaVita-Flint and DaVita-Southfield Dialysis at Home; Flint & Southfield, MI
A corporate commitment to offer more home dialysis options brought experienced dialysis nurse Linda Bodzin, RN, CNN, to DaVita-Southfield in March of 2004. In the newly created position of Program Manager for DaVita at Home, Bodzin was charged with getting the home dialysis programs at two DaVita units up and running. Read more »
Dialysis Center of Lincoln, NE
Dr. Leslie Spry, Medical Director, decided to expand the center's home hemodialysis program for 3 reasons: excellent clinical outcomes among home patients, long travel distances for rural Nebraska dialysis patients, and availability of easy-to-use home hemodialysis equipment. It all came together in August 2003—and Dialysis Center of Lincoln became the first center in the Midwest to offer short daily home hemodialysis. Read more »
The Kidney Institute; Milwaukee, WI
"Providing PD and providing hemodialysis are vastly different," says Dr. Dana Campbell. Because of that difference, he points out, everything about running a PD clinic is different, too. Read more »
Mt. Airy Self-Care Dialysis; Philadelphia, PA
For patients who are afraid to attempt home dialysis, in-center self care may create a bridge and an opportunity to transition to home after a period of confidence-building adjustment. For those who don't have a helper or who live in an unmodifiable rental, in-center self care has the potential to offer better outcomes than standard, in-center treatment. Read more »
Quotidian Home Dialysis; Glendale, CA
More than a decade of experience with home hemodialysis in Canada convinced Shawn Mehrabian that dialysis patients in the U.S. would benefit from more-frequent hemodialysis treatments. He joined forces with Dr. Raffi Minasian (an independent dialysis provider and dialysis facility Medical Director) and Sosie Mardirossian (a home hemodialysis training nurse) to form Quotidian Home Dialysis. Read more »
Rubin Dialysis Center, Inc.; Clifton Park, Saratoga, & Troy, NY
The Hortense and Louis Rubin Dialysis Center, Inc., has offered a home-treatment option to their patients—in the form of peritoneal dialysis—since 1986. They began offering home hemodialysis options more recently, but their program has grown quickly. Today, almost 30% of Rubin dialysis patients do some form of home treatment: 11% PD, 10% short daily hemo, and 8% nocturnal home hemodialysis. Those numbers are proof positive that Rubin is doing something right! Read more »