Dialysis Facility

Fresenius Medical Care Huntsville Home, LLC

Quality Rating:
Patient Survey Rating:
Not Available
Location
2325 Pansy Street
Huntsville, AL 35801

Phone Number
(256) 539-0338

About Fresenius Medical Care Huntsville Home, LLC

Fresenius Medical Care Huntsville Home, LLC is a dialysis facility in Huntsville , Alabama certified on 01/23/2014 . This facility offers peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis training. Fresenius Medical Care Huntsville Home, LLC is located at 2325 Pansy Street, Huntsville, AL 35801 and can be contacted via phone number (256) 539-0338.

Details

# of hemodialysis stations 0
Ownership type Profit
Corporate name Fresenius Medical Care
Chain owned Yes
Date of Medicare certification or recertification 01/23/2014

Services Offered

  • In-center hemodialysis: No
  • Peritoneal dialysis: Yes
  • Home hemodialysis training: Yes
  • Shifts starting after 5 p.m. No

Quality Rating

Avoiding unnecessary tranfusions

Rate of transfusions
Worse than Expected
51.5 per 100 patient-years

Removing waste from blood

Adult patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis
N/A
Adult patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during peritoneal dialysis
99%
Children who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis
N/A
Children who had enough waste removed from their blood during peritoneal dialysis
N/A

Using the most effective access to the bloodstream

Rate of fistula
As Expected
79.9%
Adult patients who had a catheter (tube) left in a vein for at least 3 consecutive complete months, for their regular hemodialysis treatments
4%

Keeping a patient's bone mineral levels in balance

Adult patients who had too much calcium in their blood
0%

Avoiding hospitalizations & deaths

Frequency of hospital admission
As Expected
214.4 per 100 patient-years
Frequency of hospital readmission
As Expected
32.7%
Frequency of patient death
As Expected
20.5 per 100 patient-years

Patient survey rating

Overall experience

Patients who gave the dialysis center a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible)
%

Communication

Patients who reported that kidney doctors “always” communicated well and cared for them as a person
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Patients who reported that YES their kidney doctors and dialysis center staff gave them the information they needed to take care of their health
%

Doctors & staff

Patients who gave their kidney doctors a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible)
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Patients who gave the dialysis center staff a rating of 9 or 10 on a scale of 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible)
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Patients who reported that dialysis center staff “always” communicated well, kept patients as comfortable and pain-free as possible, behaved in a professional manner, and kept the center clean
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