Dearborn Dialysis Center Receives Excellence Award

This press release was submitted by Fresenius Medical Care.

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), recently awarded its Garden City facility, located at 27201 W Warren St. in Dearborn Heights, the "Center of Excellence" designation for achieving the highest standards in patient care in 2012.

These annual awards recognize the best-performing FMCNA dialysis facilities nationwide, based on multiple objective measures of clinical quality.

All Fresenius Medical Care dialysis clinics share the company’s mission of delivering excellent, patient-centered care through innovative programs, the latest technology, continuous quality improvement and a focus on superior customer service.

“At Fresenius Medical Care, our clinical teams are focused on providing patients with the highest quality of care during each and every treatment,” said Carolyn Latham, vice president of clinical quality at Fresenius Medical Care. “Our Center of Excellence award recognizes the facilities that achieve the very best clinical results through the dedication and hard work of their staff.”

Fresenius Medical Care has established high standards of clinical quality company-wide, based on those recommended by the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) of the National Kidney Foundation. Fresenius Medical Care evaluates facilities for excellence recognition by reviewing key patient outcome measures such as dialysis adequacy, control of anemia, nutritional status, patient satisfaction and transplant education.

For more information about this and other Fresenius Medical Care dialysis clinics, visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com, or call 1-866-4DIALYSIS.

Dialyses cleans waste products and removes extra fluids from a person’s blood when chronic kidney disease leads to kidney failure. Dialysis patients typically require treatment on an ongoing basis unless they receive a kidney transplant.