DaVita to purchase University of Chicago dialysis centers
Published: 2010-07-21 18:03:29By: NephrOnline | April 22, 2010
DaVita, Inc. will assume ownership, including administrative and financial management, of the University of Chicago Medical Center's three off-site dialysis centers and its home dialysis program on Aug 1., the University announced.
The inpatient-dialysis program, for hospitalized patients with serious kidney disease, will not be involved.
"For patients, the transition should be seamless," said Kenneth J. Sharigian, interim president of the University of Chicago Medical Center. "Over the long run, it will lead to more efficient management of dialysis services, better facilities, and the opportunity to expand the program."
One of the Medical Center's three sites required significant renovations, now underway, and the patients have temporarily shifted to two nearby dialysis centers. Leases for the Medical Center's two other off-site facilities will expire within one to two years with no option to renew. The home dialysis program, now located in cramped quarters in the basement of the old Chicago Lying-in Hospital, also needs expanded and modernized space, the University said.
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