On our radar: Maine dialysis centers may be bought by dialysis corporate...
Three dialysis clinics run by the nonprofit hospital Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) may soon be purchased by one of the country’s largest for-profit dialysis companies, Total Renal Care, Inc., a...
View ArticleMaking Dialysis Safer: Simple tools to protect patients from bloodstream...
CDC: Bloodstream infections are one of the most serious types of infections dialysis patients can get. Since 1993, there has been a 40 percent increase in the rates of hospitalizations for bloodstream...
View ArticleThe Strangest Show On Earth
Article about Kent Thiry, the CEO of huge dialysis company Davita.
View ArticleOne Nurse’s Campaign to Optimize Safe Dialysis for Patients
Confident Voices blogs a Q&A with patient safety activist, Kathy Day, about her recent fight for dialysis patients in Maine.
View ArticleVideo: Company accused of giant Medicare fraud
Company that runs 2,000 US dialysis clinics accused of giant Medicare fraud
View ArticleC. Diff Dangerous in ESRD
Patients on kidney dialysis who are infected with Clostridium difficile appeared to have a greater risk of infection relapse and also appeared to have a higher all-cause mortality that patients who do...
View ArticleBessemer dialysis center shut down after patient deaths previously cited for...
"A dialysis center shut down here recently after the infection-related deaths of two patients was cited in a report about a year ago by the state health department for multiple infection-control...
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