Dialysis Facility Tracker
This site is for dialysis patients and others who want to learn about the quality of care at individual dialysis clinics. Among other things, you can learn how often patients treated at a facility have been hospitalized, report certain types of infections or are placed on the transplant list. The information is submitted by facilities and collected by contractors of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees most dialysis care.
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How are facilities measured?
SurvivalDeath rates for patients overall and for patients in their first year of dialysis |
HospitalizationHow clinics rate in hospital admissions, days and emergency department visits |
InfectionClinics’ rates of hospitalizations for septicemia and infections related to vascular access versus their states and the nation |
Clinical BenchmarksHow well clinics do at managing patients’ anemia and removing waste from their blood |
TransplantsRates of kidney transplants and patients waitlisted |
Vascular AccessThe proportion of patients using catheters and fistulas to receive dialysis |
Care Before DialysisPortion of patients not under the care of kidney specialists before starting dialysis |
Clinic ConditionsHow clinics did in their most recent inspections |
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