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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: plugger on September 03, 2010, 06:04:57 AM

Title: Liberty Dialysis
Post by: plugger on September 03, 2010, 06:04:57 AM

I've heard a new dialysis company called Liberty Dialysis has been taking away staff from around here.  I was wondering if anybody knew much about them?

It does sound like they have been giving DaVita fits:

http://www.dialysisethics2.org/index.php/Our-Concerns/davita-proves-need-for-stark-law.html

Title: Re: Liberty Dialysis
Post by: Trikkechickk on September 03, 2010, 09:54:13 AM

Plugger,

I go to Davita's Pike's Peak Dialysis in Colorado Springs about twice a year when I visit my sister in Manitou Springs.

I noticed a Liberty Dialysis built and now in operation right across the parking lot from Davita (talk about in your face competition!

I have always been most happy at Pike's Peak, staff is super nice, they come by to visit whenever I'm leashed up.

Cindy

Title: Re: Liberty Dialysis
Post by: plugger on September 03, 2010, 11:56:33 AM

Sounds like some of the doctors there are none too happy:

"In their countersuit, filed in April, Pikes Peak doctors say DaVita's "cost-cutting measures and administrative bureaucracy" were taking precedence over patient care. The doctors say they were concerned about the centers' staff's overuse of the anti-anemia drug Epogen, plus poor wages and working conditions for nurses."
http://www.dialysisethics2.org/index.php/Our-Concerns/davita-proves-need-for-stark-law.html

Guess I have to wonder if Liberty is doing better?

Just curious about the new kid on the block.