Article Written by Lyndee Yamshon
Published on November 25, 2019
This article featured an interview with our very own CEO!
Read the full article on the Skilled Nursing News website.

Here is a little snippet from this article:

“We have seen a significant decrease in rehospitalizations for our dialysis residents due to the fact that they are dialyzed in-house. Now residents can function 30 minutes after dialysis, they can go back, and they can do rehab and continue functioning throughout the day as opposed to coming back from a five-hour session and then being pretty much done for the day, as they just would go to bed because they’re worn out,” Friedman said.

Friedman also noted an upgrade in the facility’s ventilator systems, which enables Eastbrook to treat ventilated residents with data in real time, helping to decrease rehospitalizations post-PDPM.

“The facility that we took over was originally a lower-acuity building,” Friedman said. “Being set up for higher-acuity individuals helped position us for PDPM. We also opened the vent unit and with Dialyze Direct, we can now offer bedside dialysis as well,” Friedman said.

Dialyze Direct, which provides home hemodialysis on-site in SNFs — including equipment, training, and caregivers — has seen a major uptick in requests from nursing homes seeking partnership “so that we can come in and provide our care,” Rothenberg said.

Although Dialyze Direct is beginning to expand its dialysis programs into the home, their core business has their staff providing home dialysis in the institutional setting.

“They have their caregiver, they care for the patients between the treatments, and we make sure there’s a true coordination of care that will provide the results we need,” Rothenberg said.

Both CEOs pointed to increased revenue potential under PDPM.