Santa Barbara Artificial Kidney Center, LLC
Dialysis center in Santa Barbara, CA
Medicare-certified4★ CMS ratingShift starts 5 pm or later
Public-record details
- Address
- 1704 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
- Phone
- (805) 682-9942
- Listed under
- In-center hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Shift after 5 pm, 4–5 star CMS rating
- Medicare CCN
- 052606
- CMS star rating
- 4 of 5
- Dialysis stations
- 38
- Services
- In-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis
- Shift starting 5 pm or later
- Yes
- Chain
- Independent (not part of a chain)
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Dec 3, 1984
- ESRD Network
- Network 18
- County
- Santa Barbara
Patient outcomes
CMS compares each facility's results with what it would expect given its patients' age, health and other factors.
| Patient survival | As expected |
| Hospital admissions | As expected |
| Hospital readmissions | As expected |
| Blood transfusions | As expected |
| Bloodstream infections | Better than expected |
| Emergency department visits | As expected |
| Getting on the kidney transplant waitlist (first year) | As expected |
| Patients on the transplant waitlist | As expected |
| Fistula use | Better than expected |
| Adult hemodialysis patients with adequate dialysis (Kt/V ≥ 1.2) | 96% |
| Adult peritoneal dialysis patients with adequate dialysis (Kt/V ≥ 1.7) | 93% |
| Adult patients with a long-term catheter | 11% |
| Adult patients with high calcium (over 10.2 mg/dL) | 0% |
| Patients waitlisted for a kidney transplant | 24.7% |
“As expected” means the center's result was not reliably different from what CMS predicted for its patients — it is the most common result. Ask the center about any “worse than expected” measure and what it is doing about it. Concerns you can't resolve with the center can go to your ESRD Network.