DCI East Cooper in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina - Dialysis Center

DCI East Cooper is a medicare approved dialysis facility center in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina and it has 13 dialysis stations. It is located in Charleston county at 1088 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC, 29464. You can reach out to the office of DCI East Cooper at (843) 881-8344. This dialysis clinic is managed and/or owned by Dialysis Clinic, Inc.. DCI East Cooper has the following ownership type - Non-Profit. It was first certified by medicare in January, 1987. The medicare id for this facility is 422527 and it accepts patients under medicare ESRD program.

Name	DCI East Cooper
Location	1088 Johnnie Dodds Blvd, Mt Pleasant, South Carolina
No. of Dialysis Stations	13
Medicare ID	422527
Managed By	Dialysis Clinic, Inc.
Ownership Type	Non-Profit
Late Shifts	No

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

NPI Number	1104859586
Doing Business As	Dialysis Clinic Inc.
Address	1088 Johnnie Dodds Blvd Mt Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464
Phone Number	(843) 881-8344

Dialysis patients with Hemoglobin data	29
Medicare patients who had average hemoglobin (hgb) less than 10 g/dL	24

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	49
  Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.2	403
  Percentage of adult patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center	94
  Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center

• Peritoneal Dialysis

  Adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center	3
  Adult patient months included in Kt/V greater than or equal to 1.7	9
  Percentage of adult patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis at the center
  Percentage of pediatric patients getting regular peritoneal dialysis 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 DCI East Cooper with elevated calcium levels.

Patients with hypercalcemia	50
Hypercalcemia patient months	418
Hypercalcemia patients with serumcalcium greater than 10.2 mg	2
Patients with Serumphosphor	51
Patients with Serumphosphor less than 3.5 mg/dL	10
Patients with Serumphosphor from 3.5 to 4.5 mg/dL	28
Patients with Serumphosphor from 4.6 to 5.5 mg/dL	28
Patients with Serumphosphor from 5.6 to 7 mg/dL	20
Patients with Serumphosphor greater than 7 mg/dL	14

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	46
Patient months included in arterial venous fistula and catheter summaries	338
Percentage of patients getting regular hemodialysis at the center that used an arteriovenous (AV) fistulae for their treatment	63
Percentage of patients receiving treatment through Vascular Catheter for 90 days/longer	12

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	46
Hospitalization Rate in facility	237.6 (As Expected)
Hospitalization Rate: Upper Confidence Limit	408.7
Hospitalization Rate: Lower Confidence Limit	143.5

The rate of readmission show you whether patients who were being treated regularly at DCI East Cooper 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	35.4 (As Expected)
Readmission Rate: Upper Confidence Limit	48.8
Readmission Rate: Lower Confidence Limit	23.8