FMC - Gull Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan - Dialysis Center

FMC - Gull Road is a medicare approved dialysis facility center in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it has 12 dialysis stations. It is located in Kalamazoo county at 5010 Gull Rd, Kalamazoo, MI, 49048. You can reach out to the office of FMC - Gull Road at (269) 382-3012. This dialysis clinic is managed and/or owned by Fresenius Medical Care. FMC - Gull Road has the following ownership type - Profit. It was first certified by medicare in August, 2010. The medicare id for this facility is 232659 and it accepts patients under medicare ESRD program.

Name	FMC - Gull Road
Location	5010 Gull Rd, Kalamazoo, Michigan
No. of Dialysis Stations	12
Medicare ID	232659
Managed By	Fresenius Medical Care
Ownership Type	Profit
Late Shifts	No

Dialysis Facilities may have multiple NPI numbers. We have found possible NPI number/s associated with FMC - Gull Road from NPPES records by matching pattern on the basis of name, address, phone number etc. Please use this information accordingly.

NPI Number	1760645139
Organization Name	Fresenius Medical Care Gull Road
Doing Business As	Bio-medical Applications Of Michigan, Inc.
Address	5010 Gull Rd Kalamazoo, Michigan, 49048
Phone Number	(269) 384-6180

Dialysis patients with Hemoglobin data	31
Medicare patients who had average hemoglobin (hgb) less than 10 g/dL	10

Adult patinets who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be atleast 1.7, that means they are receiving right amount of dialysis. Pediatric patients who undergo hemodialysis, their Kt/V should be atleast 1.2 and for peritoneal dialysis the Kt/V should be 1.8.
Higher percentages should be better.

• Hemodialysis

  Adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center	54
  Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.2	466
  Percentage of adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center	99
  Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center

An important goal of dialysis is to maintain normal levels of various minerals in the body, such as calcium. This shows the percentage of patients treated at FMC - Gull Road with elevated calcium levels.

Patients with hypercalcemia	57
Hypercalcemia patient months	484
Patients with Serumphosphor	64
Patients with Serumphosphor less than 3.5 mg/dL	7
Patients with Serumphosphor from 3.5 to 4.5 mg/dL	36
Patients with Serumphosphor from 4.6 to 5.5 mg/dL	29
Patients with Serumphosphor from 5.6 to 7 mg/dL	21
Patients with Serumphosphor greater than 7 mg/dL	7

The arteriovenous (AV) fistulae is considered long term vascular access for hemodialysis because it allows good blood flow, lasts a long time, and is less likely to get infected or cause blood clots than other types of access. Patients who don't have time to get a permanent vascular access before they start hemodialysis treatments may need to use a venous catheter as a temporary access.

Patients included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries	41
Patient months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries	352
Percentage of patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center that used an arteriovenous (AV) fistulae for their treatment	73
Percentage of patients receiving treatment through Vascular Catheter for 90 days/longer	2

The rate of hospitalization show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at a certain dialysis center were admitted to the hospital more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other centers.

Standard Hospitalization Summary Ratio(SHR) Year	January, 2016 - December, 2016
Patients in facility's Hospitalization Summary	49
Hospitalization Rate in facility	140.3 (As Expected)
Hospitalization Rate: Upper Confidence Limit	276.6
Hospitalization Rate: Lower Confidence Limit	74.6

The rate of readmission show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at FMC - Gull Road were readmitted more often (worse than expected), less often (better than expected), or about the same (as expected), compared to similar patients treated at other dialysis centers.

Standard Readmission Summary Ratio(SRR) Year	January, 2016 - December, 2016
Readmission Rate in facility	26.2 (As Expected)
Readmission Rate: Upper Confidence Limit	39
Readmission Rate: Lower Confidence Limit	15.9