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New Holy Name Renal Care Center Celebrates Grand Opening

egion’s Longest-Established Dialysis Provider Partners with Fresenius Medical Care North America to Open Leading-Edge Facility

November 7, 2014

Holy Name Medical Center and Fresenius Medical Care North America, the nation's leading network of dialysis facilities, announced the opening of the Holy Name Renal Care Center, a 30-station dialysis facility located within Holy Name Medical Center at 718 Teaneck Rd. The facility, which has been relocated from another part of the medical center into a newly rebuilt space, enables Fresenius' local team of expert medical professionals to better serve Bergen County's population of patients with chronic kidney disease.

The new facility offers traditional in-center daytime dialysis, as well as access to regional home dialysis programs, which can offer patients equal or better clinical outcomes, and more flexibility in scheduling treatments. It also offers other dialysis patient services, including a kidney transplant support program, vascular care, anemia management, nutrition counseling, bone disease management and social worker support.

Robert S. Rigolosi, M.D., a nephrologist (kidney specialist) with Holy Name Medical Center, continues to provide medical director oversight at the Medicare-certified facility, where he has served as director since the dialysis program was established here in 1969.

At that time, Holy Name's dialysis treatment program was the first in the area and one of only three regional dialysis centers in New Jersey. Originally consisting of two dialysis machines located in the Intensive Care Unit, the Center’s facilities, staffing, treatment options and patient volume steadily expanded over the 40-plus years that followed.

The latest step in the Renal Care Center's evolution has been the joint-venture partnership between Holy Name Medical Center and Fresenius Medical Care. Together, they built a newly constructed treatment facility representing the leading-edge in clinical design and technology. The new 10,000-square-foot facility's treatment stations can each support up to four daily shifts of patients.

Promoting optimal efficiency, comfort and safety, every station features a reclining chair and an individual media system with wireless Internet access for patients who bring their own computers or Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones. Dialysis stations also feature the CHAIRSIDE® online charting and electronic health record system with touch-screen monitors, allowing clinical staff to enter and securely track patient information. Fresenius Medical Care facilities use blood-filtering dialyzers only once, unlike other facilities that may disinfect and reuse them. The Holy Name Renal Care Center is also equipped with an emergency backup generator to ensure that critical patient treatments continue in the event of a power outage.

"Holy Name has been known as a center for excellence for dialysis since the 1960's," said Dr. Sheryl Slonim, Executive Vice President of Patient Care Services & CNO at Holy Name. "And we have a commonality of mission with Fresenius that will ensure our patients continue to get the highest level of care they've received here for decades."

Dialysis is a life-sustaining process that cleans waste products from the blood and removes extra fluids when a person's kidneys fail. Dialysis patients typically require treatment on an ongoing basis unless they receive a kidney transplant.

"Patients at this new facility will benefit from our mission to provide patients with end-stage kidney disease the most advanced treatment available," said Dr. Rigolosi. "We recognize that patients who require dialysis treatments to survive must spend many hours in dialysis centers each week in order to maintain their health. We are pleased to offer that same exceptional level of service in a modern facility at the same convenient location for people in the Bergen County area."

For more information about the Holy Name Renal Care Center, which is now accepting new patients,
call 201-833-1701.

Fresenius Medical Care also offers Treatment Options Programs (TOPS) at no cost, to inform at-risk patients and their families about chronic kidney disease and all available treatments for kidney failure, including dialysis and kidney transplants. Sessions are open to the public and are held upon request.
Call toll-free 1-877-TOPS-LIFE (1-877-867-7543) for more information.

About Fresenius Medical Care North America

Through its leading network of more than 2,150 dialysis facilities in North America and vascular access centers, laboratory, pharmacy and affiliated hospitals and nephrology practices, Fresenius Medical Care provides renal services to hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. It is also the continent's top producer of dialysis equipment, dialyzers and related disposable products and a major supplier of renal pharmaceuticals.

For more information about the company, visit www.fmcna.com; for information about patient services,
visit http://www.ultracare-dialysis.com

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