DCI Ball Square

About DCI Ball Square

Address: 643 Broadway, Somerville, Middlesex County, MA, 2145
Phone Number: (617) 616-3600
Certification Date: January 26, 1999
Type and Organization: Non-Profit, Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Number of Dialysis Stations: 16

DCI Ball Square 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%): 2.23
• SMR: Upper Confidence Limit (95%): 1.09
• SHR: Lower Confidence Limit (5%): 0.94
• SMR: Lower Confidence Limit (5%): 0.71
• Number of patients included in hospitalization summary: 110
• Number of patients included in survival summary: 585
• Standardized hospitalization ratio: 1.42
• Standardized mortality ratio: 0.89
• 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: 85
• Percentage of HD patients with URR>=65%: 0.98
• Percent of Adult HD patients with Kt/V >= 1.2: 0.89
• Percentage of Adult PD PTS with Kt/V >= 1.7: 0.8
• Number of HD patients with URR data: 58
• Number of Adult HD patients with Kt/V data: 74
• Number of Adult HD patient-months with Kt/V data: 631
• Number of Adult PD patients with Kt/V data: 29
• Number of Adult PD patient-months with Kt/V data: 227
• 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: 0.22
• Number of Adult patients included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries: 80
• Number of Adult patient-months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries: 739

(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.