Dialysis Patient Citizens recently reported on their efforts to respond to the CMS 5-star Rating System. Under this system, the Mayo Clinic, for example, got a 1-star rating. Obviously this is not a good measure of patient feelings or experience. Rather, it is a very flawed system that uses measure which result in a prestigious provider getting a poor rating with other centers with poor service may get a high, or 5-star, rating.
I wrote about this a while back when CMS announced they were doing this 5-star rating system. And, in fact, I’ve written about this a couple times. But here’s the latest news about this issue…
Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) has taken the lead in seeking improvements to the Dialysis Facility Compare star rating system. Under the current methodology, all dialysis clinics across the U.S. are ranked against one another, with stars assigned by dividing the facilities into five tiers. Under this system, the bottom 10 percent are given one star, and those in the next twenty percent (11th percentile to 30thpercentile) given two stars.
DPC objects to this methodology for several reasons…
Read more at Dialysis Patient Citizens…
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I am a person with ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease) which means my kidneys don't work. Forty or so years ago that would have been a death sentence but today there is Dialysis which means I could be hooked up to a machine that would clean my blood as the kidneys should. Three days a week, I went to a dialysis center and had too very large needles stuck in my arm to remove and replace my blood as it passed through a process where it was cleaned and the fluid was removed, a process taking a little over four hours each time.
In November 2017, I received a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. My life went into overdrive. With a "new" functioning kidney, I no longer had to go to a dialysis center and my days were not open to be lived rather than recovering from dialysis which meant dialyzing for three days and resting for 4 days a week. I work full-time and often 50 hours per week. It is something I never imagined. I highly recommend it! HeeHee
I want to advance knowledge about dialysis and transplant so that others can learn from my experience and mistakes. We shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, eh? There is so much to be learned and experienced about our predicament. There are vast resources available to support us and enrich our lives but many patients don't know about them. There are also many issues that we have to deal with whether we want to or not. So I blog about them in www.DevonTexas.com
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Dialysis Patient Citizens recently reported on their efforts to respond to the CMS 5-star Rating System. Under this system, the Mayo Clinic, for example, got a 1-star rating. Obviously this is not a good measure of patient feelings or experience. Rather, it is a very flawed system that uses measure which result in a prestigious provider getting a poor rating with other centers with poor service may get a high, or 5-star, rating.
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