Grady Dialysis patients WILL receive their treatments! here's to life!

From the Advocates for Responsible Care

Press release August 31, 2010 (pdf)

"DeKalb Commissioner Larry Johnson assures ARxC’s 33 Dialysis Patients they will have a health home “Let us look each other in the eye and know that these are people”.

DeKalb Commissioner Larry Johnson Atlanta, Georgia

--- After facing a year of battles for 33 Grady dialysis patients to receive long term dialysis care negotiations are in progress between the private dialysis companies, Grady Hospital and ARxC under the leadership of Commissioner Larry Johnson. Commissioner Johnson informed a room full of private providers; Emory Health Care, Fresenius, DaVita, ARxC representatives, The Grady Coalition and Grady Hospital that the dialysis patients will receive their treatments to keep them alive. Once again absent from the meeting was Dialysis Centers Inc, Renal Care Patients, The Kidney Foundation and DSI Renal, Inc. ARxC was told to inform the dialysis patients to continue their treatments at their designated Fresenius Dialysis Centers. In the meeting an „in kind‟ distribution of patients was stated as: Emory Healthcare taking three (3) patients, Fresenius taking five (5) patients and as previously promised DaVita will take their „fair share‟. This would leave twenty-five (25) patients under Grady's care. The details of these agreements are still being negotiated and defined."

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THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUPPORTED THE GRADY PATIENTS WITH CONCERN AND PETITION SIGNATURES!!

HUGS to the Grady patients, I'm so relieved!

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