NEW! On-Site Dialysis Services

Loretto Health and Rehabilitation now offers on-site hemodialysis services for short-term rehabilitation residents. Our program offers two-to-three-hour sessions five times per week, compared to three longer off-site sessions, reducing complications such as cardiovascular, electrolyte, and fluid imbalances, and enhancing residents' quality of life. 

Gentler Treatments Lead to Improved Health Outcomes

OnSite Dialysis Center

We have partnered with Dialyze Direct, the nation’s largest provider of staff-assisted dialysis in skilled nursing facilities, to deliver this program using the most advanced methods and technology, which focuses on gentler treatments to help patients better manage fluid, reducing recovery times for most patients to an hour or less.

Dialyze Direct’s nurses, technicians, social workers, and dietitians work with the patient’s physician to ensure the highest continuity of care. And the program is supervised by a licensed nephrologist.

Treatments are customized and continuously adapted to each patient’s unique health needs. This allows for better quality of life for our residents, with no waiting for transportation to/from an outside clinic, no missed meals, appointments, visits or leisure activities, so they have more time to focus on rehabilitation goals and social activities as well as improved appetite and vitality.

Research shows that these shorter and more frequent dialysis sessions (pursuant to physician’s order) result in better health outcomes.* Plus, they help patients make the most of their time in the facility, leading to:  

Improved health outcomes 

Reduced recovery time after each treatment 

Reduced blood pressure  

Decreased medications 

Reduced stress on the heart  

Increased fluid removal  

Improved anemia management 

Better quality of life

Decreased exposure to contagious illnesses 

More personalized treatment by familiar staff 

No waiting for transportation to/from an outside clinic  

No missed meals, appointments, visits or leisure activities 

Recovery in the privacy of patient’s own room after treatment 

* “Post-dialysis recovery time in ESRD patients receiving more frequent hemodialysis in skilled nursing facilities,”
Hemodialysis International, April 6, 2022.

Eligible candidates are individuals referred by our hospital partners who are awaiting discharge to short-term rehabilitation and require dialysis as part of their recovery treatment.

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For more information, contact:

Loretto Health & Rehabilitation
700 East Brighton Avenue
Syracuse, New York 13205
315.413.3400