Posts Tagged ‘Nursing home’
The Case for Providing Dialysis in Nursing Homes
Kidney failure is a covert crisis in the United States. In 2018, 786,000 Americans were living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD for short), costing $49 billion in Medicare spending. The majority of that money went to providing dialysis to patients. While a functioning kidney transplant is the ideal cure for ESRD, only 30% of patients…
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The needs of nursing home residents are changing. Medicare requires residents to see a physician within 30 days of admission, but this policy is a holdover from the days when patients were primarily long-term residents in need of custodial care. Currently, 20% of hospitalized patients are discharged to nursing homes for post-acute care. This means…
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