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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Fallon Bell was only 19 years old, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, the same disease that both her mother and aunt lived with. Chronic kidney disease, or CKD, is when a person’s ...