Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston

Services

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  Evening shifts Offered

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

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  In-center hemodialysis Offered

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

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  Peritoneal dialysis Offered

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

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  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.

• Patient survival

  As Expected

  23.8 deaths per 100 patient-years

  National average: 22.2

  Based on 177 patients.

  CMS compares each facility’s patient death rate with what it would expect given the patients it treats. 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.