Since 1992, efforts have been made to establish an on-site hemodialysis unit, located in a nursing home. The goal was to improve the quality of life for residents in need of this service.
At that time, nursing home residents in need of hemodialysis had to wake up early, go out into the weather (whether hot, cold, rainy or snowy), be loaded onto a wheelchair van, travel to a dialysis facility, be unloaded, hooked up to a dialysis machine, be given dialysis for roughly four hours, be exhausted and compromised, be given a “brownbag” lunch, be loaded onto a van and transported back to the nursing home.
This whole event took six to 12 hours (more if waiting on public transportation), three days per week. By the time the resident arrived back at the home they were exhausted and typically went right to bed/sleep.
In 1997, Independent Dialysis Foundation (IDF), and Lions Manor (now The Lions Center) came to an arrangement to provide these services on-site.
This greatly improved the quality of life for dialysis residents as the process was streamlined and the services were complete in under five hours. This provided residents with the ability to have hot meals, take a quick nap and then have the entire evening to theirselves and families, without being totally exhausted.
It is with great sadness that we are no longer able to support these services due to lack of use. It is a shame that more people would not choose to use this option when in need of dialysis.
For now, this decision is temporary with the desire that more people in need of dialysis and skilled nursing services would choose to come to The Lions Center. I would like to thank IDF for the remarkable relationship we have shared and I remain optimistic that more people will seek out our in-house dialysis services.
Troy A. Raines
The Lions Center administrator
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Lions Center no longer able to provide on-site dialysis
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