Children's Hospital Boston - Dialysis

Services

• ✕

  Evening shifts Not offered

  A dialysis shift starting after 5 p.m. — useful for patients who work during the day.

• ✓

  In-center hemodialysis Offered

  Hemodialysis performed at the facility, typically three sessions a week.

• ✓

  Peritoneal dialysis Offered

  A home-based option that uses the lining of the abdomen to filter blood.

• ✓

  Home hemodialysis training Offered

  Trains patients (and care partners) to run hemodialysis at home.

Services as reported to CMS by the facility. Call ahead to confirm — shift schedules and home-training availability can change.

Clinical Outcomes

Where CMS publishes its own comparison — Better than Expected, As Expected, or Worse than Expected — it is shown verbatim. National averages come from CMS's national dialysis file; for measures without a CMS comparison, we show the national average without a verdict.

• Bloodstream infections

  As Expected

  0.64 standardized infection ratio

  A ratio of 1.00 means the facility had exactly the number of bloodstream infections CMS predicted for it; below 1.00 means fewer than predicted. The comparison label is CMS’s own.

Measures and comparison labels are from CMS Dialysis Facility Care Compare. CMS risk-adjusts survival, hospitalization, readmission, and infection measures for patient mix, so facilities treating sicker patients are not penalized for it.