Walker County Dialysis

About Walker County Dialysis

Address: 589 Highway 78 West, Jasper, Walker County, AL, 35501
Phone Number: (205) 221-1064
Certification Date: December 29, 1987
Type and Organization: Profit, National Renal Institutes
Number of Dialysis Stations: 12

Walker County Dialysis Location on Map

Service Offers and Quality Reviews

1. In-Center Hemodialysis (YES)
2. In-Center Peritoneal Dialysis (YES)
3. Home Hemodialysis Training (YES)

• SHR: Upper Confidence Limit (95%): 1.64
• SMR: Upper Confidence Limit (95%): 1.74
• SHR: Lower Confidence Limit (5%): 0.37
• SMR: Lower Confidence Limit (5%): 0.82
• Number of patients included in hospitalization summary: 30
• Number of patients included in survival summary: 168
• Standardized hospitalization ratio: 0.77
• Standardized mortality ratio: 1.22
• Percentage of Medicare patients with Hgb< 10 g/dL: 0.03
• Percentage of Medicare patients with Hgb>12 g/dL: 0
• Number of dialysis patients with Hgb data: 18
• Percentage of HD patients with URR>=65%: 1
• Percent of Adult HD patients with Kt/V >= 1.2: 0.98
• Percentage of Adult PD PTS with Kt/V >= 1.7: n/a
• Number of HD patients with URR data: 18
• Number of Adult HD patients with Kt/V data: 24
• Number of Adult HD patient-months with Kt/V data: 101
• Number of Adult PD patients with Kt/V data: 0
• Number of Adult PD patient-months with Kt/V data: 0
• Number of Pediatric HD patients with Kt/V data: 0
• Number of Pediatric HD patient-months with Kt/V data: 0
• Percentage of patients with arteriovenous fistulae in place: 0.58
• Percentage of patients with vascular catheter in use for 90 days or longer: 0.09
• Number of Adult patients included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries: 25
• Number of Adult patient-months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries: 107

(Claims Date: 07/01/2011-06/30/2012; SMR Date: 01/01/2008-12/31/2011; SHR Date: 01/01/2011-12/31/2011)

n/a = Data note available or the number of patients is too small to report, please contacts the dialysis facility to discuss this quality measure.