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Study Shows Dialysis Patients Who Use DaVita Rx Live Longer

DALLAS—DaVita, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners announced study results showing that, on average, patients using its pharmacy, DaVita Rx, are 21 percent more likely to live longer than patie...

DaVita settles lawsuit for $55 million

Dialysis service provider DaVita Inc. will pay $55 million to settle a lawsuit related to overuse of an anemia medication.The lawsuit was filed in 2002 and is based on a whistleblower's claim that Da...

DaVita HealthCare Partners Honors Teammates

DENVER—DaVita HealthCare Partners announced that the company will honor more than 4,000 DaVita teammates and HealthCare Partners leaders from around the world at its inaugural DaVita HealthCare Part...

Tour DaVita helps raise $0.9M to support 2012 Bridge of Life

DaVita, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, Inc. and a leading provider of kidney care services announced that its annual charity bike ride, Tour DaVita, raised $900,000 to support Bridge of Lif...

DaVita teams up with Riches Healthcare to provide dialysis services in Taiwan

American provider of kidney care services DaVita HealthCare Partners kidney care arm DaVita has teamed up with Taiwanese firm Riches Healthcare (RHC) to form a new entity DaVita Taiwan.

DaVita Receives Two Awards for Excellence in Learning, Development

DENVER— DaVita has received two new awards for exceptional achievement in training and development. Training magazine named DaVita to its 2013 list of the “Top 125” companies for delivering perf...

FORTUNE Names DaVita Most Admired Company

DENVER— DaVita has been named the most innovative company on FORTUNE Magazine's World’s Most Admired Companies’ 2013 ranking of health care facilities. This marks the fourth consecutive year DaV...

Rockwell, DaVita Enter into Supply Agreement

WIXOM, Mich.—Rockwell Medical announced May 9 that it has signed a multi-year, national product supply agreement with DaVita, the dialysis division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, Inc.

CathAway fistula vascular access program achieves improved outcomes and sets a new standard of treatment for end-stage renal disease.

Hemodialysis patients using central venous catheters (CVCs) for vascular access are at greater risk of infection and death vs. arterial venous fistula (AVF). In 2008, DaVita initiated the CathAway qua...

What Nephrologists Need to Know about Vascular Access Cannulation.

This article describes cannulation events, especially problems, common and rare, minor and major, to aid the nephrologist (and mid-level providers e.g. nurse practitioner and physician's assistant) in...

Analytical and Biological Variation in Measures of Anemia and Iron Status in Patients Treated With Maintenance Hemodialysis.

BACKGROUND: To make informed decisions in dosing erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and intravenous iron therapy, clinicians must determine whether differences between current and previous test results...

Design and Development of a Dialysis Food Frequency Questionnaire.

OBJECTIVES: Periodic assessment of dietary intake across a given dialysis population may help to improve the clinical outcomes related to nutrients such as dietary protein, phosphorus, or potassium. A...