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CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System Supports Patient Choice
Patients have many choices when it comes to dialysis treatment, and making a decision of where to receive care can be confusing. A recently updated tool from the federal government simplifies that...
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Keeping Patients Safe: A Fundamental Requirement to Move Up the Clinical...
I was having a conversation with my mother-in-law, Doris, recently at her assisted-living facility. She had moved from her own apartment to the memory-care unit two years prior and had adjusted well to...
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Help Protect Our Most Vulnerable Patients
We need to take a stand, for our patients, against the potential Medicare Advantage (MA) cuts that were recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The millions of...
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Announcing DaVita Kidney Care’s First Chief Medical Officer for International...
I am proud to announce that Mahesh Krishnan, M.D., MPH, MBA, FASN, will serve as the DaVita Kidney Care’s international chief medical officer and group vice president of research and development to...
View ArticleStay Employed, Stay Healthy: #WorkWithCKD
For patients, maintaining a career while managing kidney disease may help them feel healthier, happier and more fulfilled overall. In fact, studies show that some people on dialysis who keep their jobs...
View ArticleDaVita Kidney Care Welcomes Dr. John Wigneswaran
It is an honor to welcome Dr. John Wigneswaran to DaVita Kidney Care and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO). John will be joining us as vice president of clinical affairs for the hospital...
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Patient-Focused Quality Pyramid: FluidWise Edition
Every year, DaVita Kidney Care strives to improve clinical outcomes for our patients by evaluating the way nephrologists and dialysis caregivers approach patient care. Since 2000, we have succeeded in...
View ArticleDaVita Kidney Care Welcomes New Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Home...
DaVita Kidney Care’s mission is to be the Provider and Partner of Choice. To achieve this mission, we are continually recruiting top clinical leaders in nephrology research and clinical practice to...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: We Need More Giants in Nephrology
In October 1978, after a year on the faculty at UCLA, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on peritoneal dialysis (PD) at the Western Dialysis and Transplant Society’s (WDTS) Ninth...
View ArticleDaVita Kidney Care Welcomes a World Class Leader in Saudi Arabia
In February I shared with many of you that DaVita Kidney Care was honored by the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a contract to care for nearly half of the 10,000 dialysis...
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April is Donate Life Month
April is National Donate Life Month (NDLM), a time dedicated to encouraging Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to celebrating those who have given life by donating. As...
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