DaVita Dialysis Partnership

Why partner with DaVita?

In today’s health care climate, many hospital systems are exploring new options and evaluating opportunities to provide dialysis services to their patients and physicians with DaVita as their partner. As a recognized leader in the dialysis community we understand the path patients and providers navigate to deliver dialysis and the importance of maintaining high quality outcomes for life sustaining dialysis treatments. We presently work with hospital administrators across the country to address the individual needs of their dialysis program. Considering a partnership with DaVita is the first step in exploring a new opportunity to enhance or develop dialysis services. Our Hospital Services Team is commited to being your partner of choice as you explore these options.

Benefits of partnering with DaVita

Patient benefits

DaVita teammates take pride in caring for their patients and treating them with utmost respect. This commitment to quality care is evident in DaVita’s clinical outcomes, which are among the highest in measures of quality dialysis in the nation.

You can offer a continuum of care by partnering with a dialysis provider that has a strong track record of both outpatient and inpatient care. DaVita’s service excellence toward patients is a top priority to ensure enhanced patient satisfaction. In addition to superior dialysis, patients can depend on support services unique to their situation. A health insurance expert is assigned to each dialysis patient to address health coverage matters. In an effort to provide patients with the care and support they require, regular satisfaction surveys are performed and feedback from patients is collected to help us improve all services we provide.

Clinical benefits

DaVita’s success in achieving clinical outcomes consistently above the national averages year after year shows that their model for providing quality dialysis is working, and being improved each year to improve upon the last. Achieving industry-leading clinical outcomes has led to DaVita enjoying a solid reputation as a kidney care leader in the medical community. More importantly, the attention DaVita pays to clinical outcomes helps the more than 115,000 patients who dialyze with DaVita to live better lives. Winning awards and being recognized for superior clinical outcomes is an accomplishment, but knowing dialysis patients are enjoying a better quality of life is what motivates DaVita to strive for raising the bar.

Strategic benefits

By entering into a joint venture with DaVita, you will enhance your ability to provide a continuim of care to your patients. Dialysis patients generally utilize other medical specialties due to co-morbidities and other complications from kidney disease. According to the U.S. Renal Data System, the average dialysis patient will undergo 14 hospital stays per calendar year. And according to the National Hospital Discharge Survey, during their inpatient stays dialysis patients require numerous procedures and services beyond nephrology care.

Offering dialysis services can strengthen relationships with medical staff, such as nephrologists. In certain cases, you may also have the option to include your health care system’s nephrologists as a participant in a dialysis joint venture with DaVita. Partnering with DaVita opens the door for new or improved relationships with medical directors, its Chief Medical Officer and physician peer community.

While DaVita provides quality dialysis services, it is a kidney care Village in the form of a company offering value-added services and opportunities such as clinical research, vascular access centers, discharge planning services and more. Your health care system is partnering with kidney care experts that offers a breadth of renal services because it understands the complete needs of kidney patients. In becoming a joint venture dialysis partner with DaVita, your health care system is able to differentiate your renal care program from the competition, and position your hospital as the premiere kidney care program in your area, ultimately increasing the hospital’s renal market presence.

Financial benefits

DaVita owns and operates over 1,600 dialysis centers and serves over 800 hospitals as an acute dialysis provider. This expertise in managing high quality operations, affords efficient cost and staff management without compromising care. This generally leads to enhanced profitability for the joint venture dialysis partnership. In addition to operational expertise, DaVita enjoys strong relationships with vendors who provide supplies and equipment to the dialysis operation.

Join DaVita’s nationwide network of kidney dialysis centers

Enter a joint venture dialysis partnership with a company that includes:

• More than 1,600 dialysis centers in 43 states and the District of Columbia
• More than 115,000 patients — 1 in 3 dialysis patients in the U.S.
• 800+ acute dialysis clients including academic programs in 43 states
• More than 37,000 teammates committed to the dialysis community 
• A variety of dialysis modality offerings: in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis (HHD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), in-center nocturnal hemodialysis and in-center self care dialysis
• Award-winning training for managers and clinical staff
• Programs and initiatives to drive clinically, differentiated patient outcomes
• Specialized software and technology provide additional efficiencies for physicians and hospital managers

Fulfilling our mission to be the Partner of Choice, DaVita works tirelessly to identify and share best practices and clinical improvements with our partners. By partnering with DaVita, you’ll help shape the future of kidney care — impacting patients now and for generations to come.