Dialysis Clinic Inc.

“Keith johnson, md - spouse nancy johnson - spouse douglas johnson - son ken johnson - son”

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“The company has not publicized governing documents, conflict of interest policies, and financial statements.”

“The primary responsibility of dci is to perceive, initiate, and provide comprehensive patient care. We serve society by providing care for the patients wih end stage renal disease. Our goal is complete patient rehabilitation. We recognize the patient as an individual resulting from his or her genetics, life experience, habits, beliefs, and emotions; and as a member of his or her family and the community. The application of comprehensive care is on a personal level. We become acquainted with our patient as a person and seek to understand his or her problems and needs - physical, emotional, spiritual, and social. In 2014, dci employed approximately 6,000 people and provided dialysis care to 18,985 patients in more than 234 clinics located in 28 states throughout the united states. Dci, serving as the largest non-profit dialysis provider in the us, is noted for providing quality care. The united states renal data system (usrds) 2014 atlas states, " among the ldos [large dialysis organizations] in 2012, dci had the lowest smr [standardized mortality ratio] at 0.95, compared wtih 0.97 and 0.98, respectively for davita and frosenius. Dci offers all modalities of end stage renal disease (esrd) treatment, which include in-center hemodialysis, in-center self-care hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, and continuous cycling peritoneal dialysis. In 2014 dci provided a total of 2,330,318 treatments. Dci was established as a nonprofit corporation, to generate funds for research in order that the methods for treatment of esrd patients might be improved. We are not content to dialyze the next group of patients in the same imperfect way that that the last group was dialyzed without at least making the attempt to be better the patient's lot through research. As a corollary to this, education of esrd health care professionals is another goal to which dci resources are dedicated. Dci's research commitment includes providing a collaborative relationship in the conduct of clinical trials between dci clinics, physician/investigators, and the pharmaceutical industry. In an effort to facilitate the best care and make available to our patients state of the art clinical studies, dci has established the office of clinical research. Our experience in clinical research and history of tracking and archiving data is a valuable resource for nephrology physician/investigators. Dci has expert knowledge in federal regulations, hipaa, medicare clinical trial policy, good clinical practice, and federal wide assurances. The dci office of clinical research provides all of the resources necessary to conduct clinical trials in a nefficient, safe manner, while still instilling industry best practices and producing quality data. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, dci dedicates a significant portion of all monies generated to be utilized for kidney related research, education and other uses consistent with the company charter. Such programs might involve research studies, training, education, clinical, and patient care activities. In 2014, dci contributed over $5.3 million dollars to research, approximately $2.3 million to education, and more than $11.5 million dollars to development. Such contributions have a diverse and potentially powerful impact on society. In support of education, dci contributed $149,882 grant to university of tennessee's health information centerand preston medical library. Dci provided $1,000,000 to establish a teaching endowment titled, "r. Glenn davis md nephrology fellowship endowment fund" within the college of medicine at the iniversity of florida, $750,000 was donated to establish a permanent endowed professorship in nephrology research at stony brook medicine in stony brook, new york. To learn more about the correlation between kidney disease and cancer, dci provided $96,000 for the study "the mechanism by which kidney disease promotes kidney cancer growth." with a desire to improve the quality o”

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