Dialysis

Skilled nursing facilities play a vital throughput role in our nation’s healthcare system, but that role is increasingly tested by their ability to support a rapidly growing population of dialysis patients....

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People with acute kidney injury who need outpatient dialysis after getting out of the hospital are often put on dialysis indefinitely — something that could put them at unnecessary risk for other problems, 

People who are undergoing dialysis who exercise lightly are admitted to the hospital less often and they’re physically fitter, too.

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WellSky has teamed up with kidney care firm Dialyze Direct to connect medical teams across the care continuum and coordinate treatment for patients needing dialysis in skilled nursing.  

The agency has approved Jesduvroq tablets (daprodustat), the first oral treatment for kidney disease-related anemia in adults who have received dialysis for four months or more.

Efforts to increase in-home dialysis in the United States are falling flat, despite financial incentives to encourage the model, researchers report.

Peritoneal dialysis costs Medicare less than hemodialysis. But changes in the use of IV dialysis drugs may have diminished an economic incentive, investigators say.