This article is from Skilled Nursing News and was written by Maggie Flynn on January 7, 2021.
Read the article in full on the Skilled Nursing News website here: https://skillednursingnews.com/2021/01/skilled-nursing-provider-sava-sees-dialysis-expansion-as-cornerstone-of-post-covid-world/
Early in December, Concerto Renal Services announced that it was expanding its partnership with the skilled nursing provider SavaSeniorCare, with the addition of on-site dialysis treatments to a facility in Georgia.
For Concerto, the partnership with Sava at the Dunwoody Health and Rehabilitation Center is the fourth such agreement between the two companies and marks the chance to bring the model to the south, Concerto CEO Shimmy Meystel noted in a press release announcing the transaction.
It also provides the chance to reduce chances of infection while providing the patients with services that they need, he told Skilled Nursing News in a December 15 interview.
“We have some other providers we work with who told us that they trace back something like 60% to 70% of their COVID outbreaks to patients who had who bought it back from dialysis,” he noted, pointing to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found nursing home residents who receive dialysis have a significantly higher chance of contracting COVID-19.
Read the article in full on the Skilled Nursing News website here: https://skillednursingnews.com/2021/01/skilled-nursing-provider-sava-sees-dialysis-expansion-as-cornerstone-of-post-covid-world/