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Dialysis Facility

Sharps Corner

Quality Rating:
Patient Survey Rating:
Not Available
Location
Hcr 49, Box 82C
Porcupine, SD 57772

Phone Number
(605) 455-1080

About Sharps Corner

Sharps Corner is a dialysis facility in Porcupine , South Dakota certified on 09/09/2004 . This facility offers in-center hemodialysis. Sharps Corner is located at Hcr 49, Box 82C, Porcupine, SD 57772 and can be contacted via phone number (605) 455-1080.

Details

# of hemodialysis stations 12
Ownership type Profit
Corporate name Independent
Chain owned No
Date of Medicare certification or recertification 09/09/2004

Services Offered

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

Quality Rating

Avoiding unnecessary tranfusions

Rate of transfusions
As Expected
0 per 100 patient-years

Removing waste from blood

Adult patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis
95%
Adult patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during peritoneal dialysis
N/A
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
Better than Expected
83.3%
Adult patients who had a catheter (tube) left in a vein for at least 3 consecutive complete months, for their regular hemodialysis treatments
8%

Keeping a patient's bone mineral levels in balance

Adult patients who had too much calcium in their blood
2%

Avoiding hospitalizations & deaths

Frequency of hospital admission
As Expected
224.7 per 100 patient-years
Frequency of hospital readmission
As Expected
33.3%
Frequency of patient death
As Expected
19.6 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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