Kitty Thomas of Roanoke has a particular fondness for the nurses she supervises at the Crystal Spring Acute Dialysis Center. They are hard workers, passionate about their work and committed to their ...

Pat Brown, a nurse at DaVita Green Oak Dialysis in Kingwood, was honored for her commitment to high quality and compassionate care. She received the DAISY award, which is given to extraordinary nurses ...

Renal dialysis is the process of cleaning the toxins out of someone's blood when their kidneys quit working. Complicated machines remove a persons blood a little at a time and filter out the salt, ...

Dialysis centers are facing shortages of the nurses that run the facilities and the technicians who operate the dialysis machines. Using a calculated risk score to monitor hemodialysis vascular access ...

A dialysis clinic is rarely quiet. In open, fluorescent-lit rooms, patients sit side by side, connected to humming, rhythmic ...

When Darla Spies was young, her grandmother was a nurse who sometimes took her to the nursing home, where she could help out, working with the patients and doing activities. “It’s been a love affair ...

Ansel, Home Hemodialysis Registered Nurse at DaVita, is a DaVita Global Nurse from the Philippines and was recruited while working as an international dialysis nurse in Abu Dhabi. He wanted to be a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Historically, treatment options have focused on the prolongation of life [with] dialysis therapies as a ...

A nurse known for her kind heart and having played a significant role in the lives of orphaned children in Haiti, is being remembered as a “beacon of compassion”. The staff of the Dialysis Unit at ...

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...