Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) is a medicare approved dialysis facility center in Tucson, Arizona and it has 19 dialysis stations. It is located in Pima county at 2022 E Prince Rd, Tucson, AZ, 85719. You can reach out to the office of Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) at (520) 327-0007. This dialysis clinic is managed and/or owned by Dialysis Clinic, Inc.. Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) has the following ownership type - Non-Profit. It was first certified by medicare in January, 1986. The medicare id for this facility is 032514 and it accepts patients under medicare ESRD program.
| Name | Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) |
|---|---|
| Location | 2022 E Prince Rd, Tucson, Arizona |
| No. of Dialysis Stations | 19 |
| Medicare ID | 032514 |
| Managed By | Dialysis Clinic, Inc. |
| Ownership Type | Non-Profit |
| Late Shifts | No |
| 2022 E Prince Rd, Tucson, Arizona, 85719 | |
| (520) 327-0007 | |
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| NPI Number | 1023041407 |
| Doing Business As | Dialysis Clinic Inc. |
| Address | 2022 E Prince Rd Tucson, Arizona, 85719 |
| Phone Number | (520) 327-0007 |
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| Dialysis patients with Hemoglobin data | 36 |
| Medicare patients who had average hemoglobin (hgb) less than 10 g/dL | 6 |
| Medicare patients who had average hemoglobin (hgb) greater than 12 g/dL | 3 |
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Adult patinets who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be atleast 1.7, that means they are receiving right amount of dialysis. Pediatric patients who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be 1.8.
Higher percentages should be better.
| Adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center | 55 |
| Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.2 | 502 |
| Percentage of adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center | 91 |
| Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center |
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| Adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center | 38 |
| Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.7 | 320 |
| Percentage of adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center | 62 |
| Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center |
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An important goal of dialysis is to maintain normal levels of various minerals in the body, such as calcium. This shows the percentage of patients treated at Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) with elevated calcium levels.
| Patients with hypercalcemia | 96 |
| Hypercalcemia patient months | 887 |
| Hypercalcemia patients with serumcalcium greater than 10.2 mg | 2 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor | 99 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor less than 3.5 mg/dL | 8 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor from 3.5 to 4.5 mg/dL | 23 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor from 4.6 to 5.5 mg/dL | 27 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor from 5.6 to 7 mg/dL | 28 |
| Patients with Serumphosphor greater than 7 mg/dL | 15 |
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The arteriovenous (AV) fistulae is considered long term vascular access for hemodialysis because it allows good blood flow, lasts a long time, and is less likely to get infected or cause blood clots than other types of access. Patients who don't have time to get a permanent vascular access before they start hemodialysis treatments may need to use a venous catheter as a temporary access.
| Patients included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries | 38 |
| Patient months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries | 329 |
| Percentage of patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center that used an arteriovenous (AV) fistulae for their treatment | 88 |
| Percentage of patients receiving treatment through Vascular Catheter for 90 days/longer | 11 |
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The Dementia Strikes Children Too campaign aims to raise awareness of childhood dementia, drive for better clinical education of this group of diseases, and put in place the systems and tools for earlier diagnosis.
Boston Herald: Massachusetts hospital officials say that reduced federal and state payments may destabilize health care delivery. The state's combined Medicaid and CHIP program, known as MassHealth, plans to cut hospital reimbursements "by $75 million in its main contract between hospitals and MassHealth, according to the Massachusetts Hospital Association, which cited 'discussions' with the state in outlining the proposed cut to its members over the weekend.
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The rate of hospitalization show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at a certain dialysis center were admitted to the hospital more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other centers.
| Standard Hospitalization Summary Ratio(SHR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
| Patients in facility's Hospitalization Summary | 70 |
| Hospitalization Rate in facility | 224.9 (As Expected) |
| Hospitalization Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 376.6 |
| Hospitalization Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 138.1 |
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The Dementia Strikes Children Too campaign aims to raise awareness of childhood dementia, drive for better clinical education of this group of diseases, and put in place the systems and tools for earlier diagnosis.
Boston Herald: Massachusetts hospital officials say that reduced federal and state payments may destabilize health care delivery. The state's combined Medicaid and CHIP program, known as MassHealth, plans to cut hospital reimbursements "by $75 million in its main contract between hospitals and MassHealth, according to the Massachusetts Hospital Association, which cited 'discussions' with the state in outlining the proposed cut to its members over the weekend.
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The rate of readmission show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at Desert Dialysis Center (DCI) were readmitted more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other dialysis centers.
| Standard Readmission Summary Ratio(SRR) Year | January, 2016 - December, 2016 |
| Readmission Rate in facility | 18.2 (As Expected) |
| Readmission Rate: Upper Confidence Limit | 27.2 |
| Readmission Rate: Lower Confidence Limit | 11 |
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The Dementia Strikes Children Too campaign aims to raise awareness of childhood dementia, drive for better clinical education of this group of diseases, and put in place the systems and tools for earlier diagnosis.
Boston Herald: Massachusetts hospital officials say that reduced federal and state payments may destabilize health care delivery. The state's combined Medicaid and CHIP program, known as MassHealth, plans to cut hospital reimbursements "by $75 million in its main contract between hospitals and MassHealth, according to the Massachusetts Hospital Association, which cited 'discussions' with the state in outlining the proposed cut to its members over the weekend.
Maryland communities that are poor and predominantly African-American incur a disproportionate cancer risk from ambient exposure to airborne toxins, according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The National Health Service in the UK is being put under considerable pressure by Cancer charities to widen access to a promising new class of breast cancer drug as new evidence suggests the latest treatment is far superior to Tamoxifen, the long established premier drug for women with the early stage of the disease.
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