FMS - CHARLESTON: Services and Reviews

Dialysis Services Offered by FMS - CHARLESTON

FMS - CHARLESTON is a dialysis provider with 32 available stations in CHARLESTON, WV. It's overall five star rating is 1 out of 5. It is part of the Fresenius Medical Care chain. The owner is a profit. FMS - CHARLESTON offers in center Hemodialysis and it offers Peritoneal Dialysis. It offers Home Hemodialysis Training. The facility has been participating in Medicare since 04/01/1980; it's provider number is 512503.

Five-Star Quality of Patient Care Rating for FMS - CHARLESTON

Overall Rating:

The dialysis facility quality of patient care rating for FMS - CHARLESTON shows you how the dialysis facility performance compares to other dialysis facilities. The rating, between 1 to 5 stars, is calculated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ("CMS") using each dialysis facilities' scores on different quality of care measures, including:

• Avoiding unnecessary transfusions
• Using the most effective access to the bloodstream
• Keeping a patient's bone mineral levels in balance
• Avoiding hospitalizations & deaths
• Removing waste from blood

Use the quality of patient care star rating along with other quality information when making decisions about choosing a dialysis facility. Each dialysis facility gets a rating between 1 and 5 stars, with 3 stars representing the national average. A 5-star rating means a facility has quality of care that is considered 'much above average' compared to other dialysis facilities. A one or 2-star rating means that measured health outcomes for that facility were below average.

Survey Ratings for FMS - CHARLESTON

In addition to the overall rating, CMS is required to regularly survey patients about their experience at FMS - CHARLESTON. The results are published as the In-Center Hemodialysis Survey Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey ("ICH CAHPS Survey"). (Who thought that this was a good name for a survey?) More information about the survey is available on this site. CMS summarized the results as another 5-star rating. Below are the ICH CAHPS survey ratings for FMS - CHARLESTON:

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Data Card for FMS - CHARLESTON

Other Dialysis Facilities in CHARLESTON

Below is a list of dialysis facilities near FMS - CHARLESTON. You should consider reviewing the information about these facilities when deciding on which dialysis facility that you want to go to.