Dialysis Facility Compare - CMS

[TNValley]

I must've been sleeping under a rock? How'd I miss this? Anyways, I thought I'd share:

Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare Facility Search

I also saw a good article from Dialysis Patient Citizens and the National Kidney Foundation responding to the star ratings, especially the one and two star ratings. I'm not certain how I feel about this. Sure there are pro's and con's, but what do y'all think?

...update. I checked the clinics in my area. The information is outdated. According to what the CMS is ranking the facilities on some of them should gain or lose a star. For example, there's one clinic in my area that has an 84% kt/v rating listed at the website, but I know that clinic is actually at 100%. A lot of the info is only collected quarterly.

[Anna S, RN]

I was interested in this link, but the info is way out of date- it says one of the units I asked about is owned by Gambro, and they've been out of the dialysis clinic business for years.

[TNValley]

Yikes! Now that is just sad. Our government booted Gambro out of the country, right? That was the company I started working for back in '02. After the Gambro (and those nice benefits _silent tear_) departure the clinic/clinics I worked in were bought out by DaVita. I may be wrong, but as far as I know Gambro is no longer allowed to provide dialysis services in the USA.