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 ...

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 ...

Federal officials on Wednesday updated guidance meant to improve the delivery of nursing home dialysis, a service many providers have been adding to attract new residents and improve quality of life ...

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 ...

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).

October 14, 2009 — In nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), starting dialysis is linked to functional decline, according to the results of an uncontrolled study reported in the ...

Patients at skilled nursing facilities who receive frequent dialysis have a higher rate of discharge to home compared with those who receive conventional dialysis. Among patients at skilled nursing ...

On March 22, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued revised Guidance and Survey Process for Reviewing Home Dialysis Services in a Nursing Home (Rev QSO-18-24-ESRD) to ...

Older Americans living in nursing homes experience a significant decline in their ability to perform simple daily tasks -- such as feeding themselves, getting dressed or brushing their teeth -- after ...

New research finds that nursing home residents receiving hemodialysis for chronic kidney disease may be at greater risk for infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It's widely known ...

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Hampton resident Arnetta Avents suffered a seizure a few months ago that sent her to the hospital for three weeks. “I couldn’t move nothing but my eyes,” she said. Since then, Avents has slowly ...