CommuniCare Family of Companies has been in the news a lot lately, with its role in the acquisition of Stonerise Healthcare in West Virginia, but the operator also just announced a partnership with Dialyze Direct, a provider of home hemodialysis services in skilled nursing facilities, to conduct onsite hemodialysis services at its facilities across the country. Dialyze Direct now covers 170 SNFs in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company has been on a major growth path this year, announcing three separate acquisitions of other dialysis providers: RenPro Renal Services in July, Compass Home Dialysis in February, and Renew Dialysis in January according to LevinPro HC.
Providing onsite dialysis services seems like a no-brainer for SNFs which have the capacity and the referral network to care for this type of patient. Bussing dialysis patients out to a separate facility is an added cost to the SNF (in addition to the actual care), takes away precious hours during the day to provide other reimbursable care, and is overall a more exhausting experience for the patients themselves. Sounds like a win-win.
