Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When Mark Kaszirer, LNHA, gets a call from a hospital looking to place a patient who needs short-term ...

Dialysis can no longer be business as usual. While many may feel that we live in a post-pandemic society, we have data to suggest otherwise, as there have been spikes across the nation, mostly from a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nursing home patients on dialysis are higher-acuity compared to the broader ESRD population. The objective of ...

It can be challenging to identify which patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) will most benefit from ...

As our population ages and the number of individuals with complex medical conditions increases, so does the number of people who suffer with kidney function failure: end stage kidney disease (ESRD).

More frequent, shorter dialysis sessions reduced recovery time to one hour or less in 80% of nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease, a new study has found. Dialysis recovery can include ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a 5-star rating to Episcopal Health Services' Marjorie ...

An investigation at a Maryland nursing home identified 47 percent of dialysis residents testing positive for COVID-19, compared to 16 percent among those not receiving dialysis, according to the CDC’s ...

The Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine, is temporarily closing its dialysis center to outpatients due to a nursing shortage, CBS-affiliate TV station WGME reports. Stephen Sears, MD, chief of ...