Corpus Christi Dialysis Chain: Davita Location: 2733 Swantner Dr, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78404 Rating: Phone: (361) 855-4911 |
BAY Area Dialysis Corpus Christi Chain: Fresenius Medical Care Location: 1647 South Alameda, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78404 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 888-7547 |
Fresenius Medical Care Calallen Chain: Fresenius Medical Care Location: 4147 G Five Points Rd, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78410 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 242-3300 |
Davita Coastal Dialysis Chain: Davita Location: 4300 2-2 S Padre Island Dr, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78411 Rating: Phone: (361) 855-9449 |
BAY Area Dialysis Southside Chain: Fresenius Medical Care Location: 4112 S Staples Ste Ab, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78411 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 814-0168 |
DSI Riverside Renal Center Chain: Davita Location: 13434 Leopard Street Ste A17, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78410 Rating: Phone: (361) 241-4873 |
Davita Morgan Avenue Chain: Davita Location: 2222 Morgan Ave #104, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78405 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 884-1113 |
Gilwards Dialysis, Llc Chain: Unknown At This Time Location: 6018 Parkway Dr, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78414 Rating: Not Available Phone: (615) 320-4224 |
Driscoll Children's Hospital Dialysis Unit Chain: Unknown At This Time Location: 3533 Alameda, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78411 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 694-6800 |
Fresenius Medical Care Saratoga Chain: Fresenius Medical Care Location: 6017 Parkway Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78414 Rating: Not Available Phone: (361) 986-1567 |
Greenwood Holly Renal Center Chain: Davita Location: 1533 Holly Road, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78417 Rating: Phone: (361) 850-7300 |
Us Renal Care Oso Bay Dialysis Chain: Us Renal Care, Inc. Location: 7502 South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78412 Rating: Phone: (361) 994-1028 |
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AlloSource, one of the nation's largest non-profit providers of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for use in surgical procedures and the world's largest processor of live cellular bone growth substitutes, today announced its receipt of the Foothills Award from Colorado Performance Excellence (CPEx), a statewide non-profit that helps organizations improve performance and achieve results.
During estimation processes we unconsciously make use of recent experiences. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit-t (LMU) in Munich and the Bernstein Center Munich asked test subjects to estimate distances in a virtual reality environment.
All living organisms respond and adapt to changes in their environment. These responses are sometimes so significant that they cause alterations in the internal metabolic cycles of the organism-a process called "metabolic switching." For example, rice blast fungus-a pathogenic fungal species that causes the "rice blast" infection in rice crops-switches to the "glyoxylate cycle" when the nutrient source starts to deplete.
Speaking on April 19 at the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting in New Orleans, Dr. Kristine Krajnak, a team leader in the Engineering and Control Technologies Branch of the Health Effects Laboratory Division of NIOSH in Morgantown, West Virginia, describes results from the first study to directly link the different physical responses of tissue that occur with exposure to different vibration frequencies with biological mechanisms underlying the development of vascular dysfunction.
For women undergoing breast cancer surgery, a technique called lipofilling—using the patient's own fat cells to optimize the results of breast reconstruction—does not increase the risk of recurrent breast cancer, reports a study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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Dialysis is used as a temporary measure in either acute kidney injury or in those awaiting kidney transplant and as a permanent measure in those for whom a transplant is not indicated or not possible. Dialysis facility in medicare covers outpatient maintenance dialysis treatments, training for self-dialysis, self-dialysis support services and self-dialysis equipment and supplies. In some cases, Medicare may cover ambulance transportation when the patient has End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), need dialysis, and need ambulance transportation to or from a dialysis facility.
The star rating shows how well a dialysis center delivers care compared to the national average, based on Medicare data. Each dialysis center receives a rating between 1 and 5 stars, with 3 stars representing the national average. A five-star rating means a center has quality of care that is considered 'much above average' compared to other dialysis facilities. A one or two-star rating means that measured health outcomes for that center were below average. The star rating is part of Medicare's work to make data on the quality of patient care easier to understand and use. Patient survey results aren't included in the star rating.