Satellite Healthcare Merced: Services and Reviews

Dialysis Services Offered by Satellite Healthcare Merced

Satellite Healthcare Merced is a dialysis provider with 24 available stations in MERCED, CA. It's overall five star rating is 5 out of 5. It is part of the Satellite Healthcare chain. The owner is a non-profit. Satellite Healthcare Merced offers in center Hemodialysis and it offers Peritoneal Dialysis. It offers Home Hemodialysis Training. The facility has been participating in Medicare since 06/16/2010; it's provider number is 552653.

Five-Star Quality of Patient Care Rating for Satellite Healthcare Merced

Overall Rating:

The dialysis facility quality of patient care rating for Satellite Healthcare Merced 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 Satellite Healthcare Merced

In addition to the overall rating, CMS is required to regularly survey patients about their experience at Satellite Healthcare Merced. 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 Satellite Healthcare Merced:

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Other Dialysis Facilities in MERCED

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