Kidney and dialysis care for nursing homes
More admissions. Fewer hospital returns.
Nephrology-trained nurse practitioners, supervised by a nephrologist, see your kidney and dialysis residents in your building. For fee-for-service Medicare residents. Cost to your building: $0.
nursing home residents have kidney disease. Most never see a kidney specialist.
hospital transfers involve the kidneys.
Why it helps your building
What a kidney team in your building changes.
More admissions
Say yes to the dialysis and kidney referrals you turn away today. A kidney team in your building can take care of them.
Fewer hospital returns
Fluid buildup, high potassium and drug doses that are wrong for the kidneys get caught and treated in your building, with orders the same day.
How we are different
Kidney only. No extra work for your nurses.
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Kidney only
Kidney nurse practitioners, with a nephrologist reviewing their work.
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Same-day orders
Notes and orders go in your record. No extra work for your nurses.
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Works with your rounding group
No primary care. We see only the kidney patients and work alongside your attending and dialysis nephrologist.
How it works
Three steps, from your side.
Step 1. Your attending refers a resident with a consult order.
Step 2. Our nurse practitioner sees the resident in your building and puts in orders the same day.
Step 3. Every month you get a one-page report on the residents we follow and their hospital transfers.
Safety
Transplant and dialysis patients go to the nephrologist the same day.
Cost
$0 to your building. We bill Medicare for our own visits. For fee-for-service (traditional) Medicare residents.
Standard Medicare coinsurance applies to the resident and is usually covered by Medicaid or supplemental insurance.Your kidney team
One kidney team. Your doctors stay in charge.
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Supervising nephrologist
Reviews our nurse practitioners’ work. Takes transplant, dialysis and complex kidney patients the same day.
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Nephrology-trained nurse practitioners
See your kidney residents in your building and put in orders the same day.
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Your attending and medical director
Stay in charge. We see only the kidney patients. Your doctors keep everything else.
Contact
Request a facility visit.
Call or email. We come to your building and walk your team through how it works.