Fmc Dialysis Services Claxton
Dialysis center in Claxton, GA
Medicare-certified3★ CMS rating
Public-record details
- Address
- 312 North River Street, Claxton, GA 30417
- Phone
- (912) 739-9449
- Listed under
- In-center hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Home hemodialysis training
- Medicare CCN
- 112679
- CMS star rating
- 3 of 5
- Dialysis stations
- 16
- Services
- In-center hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training
- Shift starting 5 pm or later
- No
- Chain
- Fresenius Medical Care
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Apr 5, 2000
- ESRD Network
- Network 6
- County
- Evans
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 |
| Bloodstream infections | As expected |
| Emergency department visits | Worse than expected |
| Getting on the kidney transplant waitlist (first year) | As expected |
| Patients on the transplant waitlist | As expected |
| Fistula use | As expected |
| Adult hemodialysis patients with adequate dialysis (Kt/V ≥ 1.2) | 99% |
| Adult peritoneal dialysis patients with adequate dialysis (Kt/V ≥ 1.7) | 91% |
| Adult patients with a long-term catheter | 19% |
| Adult patients with high calcium (over 10.2 mg/dL) | 2% |
| Patients waitlisted for a kidney transplant | 19.1% |
“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.