Knowledge is power: This is the concept behind Kidney Smart®. The award-winning program seeks to do just that: provide robust education so that people living with kidney disease can better manage...

For nearly two decades, value-based care has been a hot topic in health care. And for good reason. After all, experts agree that the premise of generating a new care environment that prioritizes...

“What we want, more than anything, is to transform from a dialysis company to a kidney care company,” DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez said during an appearance on the Fortune Leadership Next...

In recent years, the nephrology community has focused on increasing the number of patients listed for kidney transplant and receiving home dialysis therapies, in part, by more aggressively...

For Dr. Mark Kaplan, vice president of medical affairs and clinical IT for DaVita, data is everything. He believes leveraging information technology (IT) offers an enormous opportunity to improve...

For years, DaVita has invested in and built technology that supports better care-delivery—such as OneView’s care documentation and access for nephrologists who round in DaVita® centers and...

“Imagine taking care of a patient and keeping that patient healthy without obstacles of care fragmentation,” Dr. Amy Schuerman-Gen, vice president of clinical operations for DaVita Integrated...

DaVita has completed construction on what is expected to be its first net-zero dialysis center in Conyers, Georgia. Located about 25 minutes outside of the Atlanta metropolitan area, once...

Last month, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez joined a panel at the annual HLTH conference to discuss the topic, “What’s Plaguing Our Health.” The conversation, moderated by A.G. Breitenstein,...

The health care sector worldwide is responsible for as much as 4.6% of total greenhouse gas emissions, which includes carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and others. In an effort to reduce its own...

Clinical trials offer the opportunity to test new therapeutic treatments and advance care, but trials often hit logistical barriers. Because trials have typically occurred in a physical research...

Kidney failure affects Black individuals at four times the rate of white individuals in the U.S.,[1] but fewer Black patients are put on kidney transplant waiting lists and even fewer receive...

At the annual Renal Physicians Association (RPA) meeting in Dallas, Texas, March 24-27, DaVita chief transformation officer Misha Palecek spoke candidly about the nephrology community’s...

Of the 37 million Americans who have kidney disease, an estimated 90% don’t know they have it. Often, it can go undetected because patients can present few or no symptoms until they approach or...

New technologies are helping to expand access and increase patient confidence to choose home dialysis more than ever before.

For the last decade, DaVita has been reimagining how the health care industry builds dialysis centers.

In April 2019, DaVita committed to a goal of being 100% powered by renewable energy by 2022.

DaVita IKC’s patient-centered approach helps the organization achieve the Triple Aim—to improve the patient experience of care, improve the health of populations, and to reduce the per capita cost of health care. This has led DaVita IKC to this top performer recognition as an NCQA-accredited provider.

Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics are being scaled to segment patients into several different areas, including risk for CKD progression and eventual need for dialysis. These models are used to develop effective and efficient integrated care delivery systems. Incorporating this technology into care delivery will be essential to helping reduce CKD rates and slow disease progression.

There is a shift to move all sectors of health care away from traditional fee-for-service models that pay clinicians based on the number of patients seen or procedures performed to value-based care.

Each year, approximately 100,000 patients transition from chronic kidney disease (CKD) to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD).