- Atlantic Dialysis

SEPTEMBER 2009
BUSINESS • REAL ESTATE • HOME IMPROVEMENT
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Dialysis Management
Services Throughout New York
BY CHRISTINA SHANAHAN
[email protected]
With a long history of providing nephrologists and dialysis centers
the methods and means to offer superior care to patients with chronic
kidney disease in New York, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services
(ADMS) ensures that patients are cared for by a staff that is qualified
and sensitive to their needs and by a company that has achieved
respect and recognition.
Atlantic Dialysis Management Services was established to provide
new dialysis site development and day-to-day administration and
management of services for a group of dialysis facilities treating
those with chronic kidney disease. As opposed to other dialysis facilities that are operated by public companies, ADMS is an independent,
physician-owned company. Central to the ADMS strategy is maximizing individual site results through consolidated activities. Skilled
nephrologists with the highest caliber of training and education
administer the long-term control of these clinical services.
The scope of ADMS extends throughout the boroughs of New York
City and Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island. Affiliate
dialysis centers of ADMS will provide more than 200,000 treatments
in 2009 to over 1,500 patients in New York City and Long Island.
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(Above) Dr. David Scott of Springfield Dialysis. (Right top) Nancy Cano, Research
Coordinator. (Right bottom) Garnette Mason, Study Coordinator
GOOD CLINICAL OUTCOMES THAT CATER TO PATIENTS’ NEEDS
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Each chronic dialysis center contracts with ADMS for
administrative and operational support activities.
ADMS handles the recruiting of dialysis center staff,
ongoing staff education, performance improvement,
billing and collection, joint purchasing, joint managed
care contracting and developing common operating
procedures and systems across all sites. The financial,
accounting and corporate functions for each site are
also carried out by ADMS. In addition, ADMS provides
practice management services to nephrologists and
acute dialysis services to hospitals.
The free standing dialysis centers under the ADMS
umbrella include Ridgewood Dialysis Center, one of the
largest dialysis centers in the country with 43 stations;
Newtown Dialysis Center in Long Island City with 24
stations; College Point Dialysis Center in northern
Queens with 24 stations; West Nassau Dialysis Center in
Valley Stream with 24 stations; New Hyde Park Dialysis
Center in northwestern Nassau County with 24 stations;
Central Brooklyn Dialysis Center in northeastern
Brooklyn with 30 stations; Astoria Dialysis Center in
the heart of Astoria’s entertainment district with 24 stations; Broadway Dialysis Center with 20 stations in
licensed space at Elmhurst Hospital Center; East End
Dialysis Center in Riverhead in Suffolk County with 24
stations; New York Renal Associates Dialysis Center in
the south Bronx with 40 stations; and the newly opened
and operating Springfield Dialysis Center in southeastern Queens with 24 stations.
In addition to the free-standing centers mentioned
above, ADMS provides acute dialysis services to several
hospitals through management contracts with its affil-
iated companies. These services are currently provided
to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens and Peconic Bay Medical Center. For
2009, it is estimated that ADMS will do over 7,000
treatments in these sites. Home programs are also
offered for treatment through Continuous Ambulatory
Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) and Continuous Cycled Peritoneal Dialysis (CCPD). At the Ridgewood Dialysis
Center, home hemodialysis training is offered using
NxStage machines.
The ADMS business model is aimed at achieving good
clinical outcomes, but never at the expense of patients’
comfort during the treatment process. For this reason,
each facility is designed to provide a sense of comfort
for those being treated. Elements provided by ADMS
facilities that are often not found at other dialysis
centers include state-of-the-art flat-screen televisions
with Direct TV programming, soft lighting, beautiful
fish tanks and wireless internet access.
“These are amenities that provide tremendous comfort
to patients undergoing a complex and lengthy dialysis
treatment,” said David Scott, MD, of the Springfield
Dialysis Center. “I have worked in a number of dialysis
facilities, but I have never seen the level of professionalism and patient care that Atlantic Dialysis provides in
all of their facilities.”
The Springfield Dialysis Center in Springfield
Gardens, of which Scott is the main nephrologist and
Associate Medical Director, opened this past August
and is the newest edition to the ADMS network. Scott
has practiced nephrology in southeastern Queens for
the past 15 years. He was trained in Nephrology at
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Harlem Hospital before starting a Hypertension Clinic at Mary Immaculate, eventually
becoming the Director of Nephrology. For several years
during that time, Scott was also the medical director of
a local dialysis facility in Queens.
Scott said he formed a goal several years ago to open
a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment center for
chronic kidney disease that would research and
evaluate new therapies to slow the progression of
kidney disease and provide dialysis services for those
patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. “This
vision is now realized with the opening of the Springfield Dialysis Center,” Scott said. “For the first time we
will have a center in our community that can provide a
comprehensive approach to kidney care.”
Scott, who also recently founded Clinical Research
Development Associates to perform clinical research
within groups that are typically under-represented in
clinical trials, said that the most unique feature of Springfield Dialysis Center is that it offers a very comprehensive
approach to the care of patients with kidney diseases.
“Patients may participate in research that introduces
them to new therapies in the treatment of kidney
disease and it offers excellent, comprehensive dialysis
services for those patients who have progressed,” he
explained. Some of these services include in-center
hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and home
hemodialysis. In addition, Springfield Dialysis Center
has an experienced full-time nephrologist on the
premises at all times.
In addition to the newly-opened Springfield Dialysis
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Xenea Davas, age 79 is one of the
Springfield Dialysis centers new
patients, along with Dr. David Scott.
(Right) One of the many dialysis
machines.
CENTERS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO KIDNEY CARE
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Center, ADMS is a rapidly growing forprofit dialysis management company
with 10 sites, making it the third largest
in New York State. The first ADMS
dialysis center was established in 1991 in
the Ridgewood section of Queens County.
It has since established its other facilities
in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and
Nassau and Suffolk Counties. One of the
largest employers in Queens County,
ADMS currently has over 300 employees.
The expansion of ADMS is particularly
notable given the competitive market in
which it has grown. The past 18 years
have seen an extraordinarily competitive
New York market with the expansion and
consolidation of several major national
chains. The construction of new dialysis
centers in the New York metropolitan
area, upstate New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut in the future will see to the
company’s continued expansion.
A true testament to the quality health
care and business practices of ADMS, the
company is often consulted by hospitals,
other health care entities and the New
York State Department of Health on
matters related to chronic kidney diseases
and end stage renal disease. ADMS and its
affiliates have been considered one of New
York State’s best choices for dialysis and it
has maintained its image by developing
patient-friendly facilities with employees
Patients receiving treatment.
dedicated to excellent care.
Co-principals of ADMS, Dr. J.G. Bhat,
MD, and Dr. Nirmal K. Mattoo, MD,
founded the company after years of
operating their private practice, Mattoo
and Bhat Medical Associates, PC, one of
the largest group practices in New York
City devoted exclusively to nephrology.
Bhat has practiced Nephrology for more
than 30 years and holds medical and
post-graduate degrees from Mysore
Medical College and Kasturba Medical
College in India. He has completed a fellowship in Nephrology at New York Uni-
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versity as well as a post-doctoral fellowship with New York State Kidney
Disease Institute. Bhat, a diplomat of the
American Boards of Internal Medicine
and Nephrology, has been principal
investigator and co-investigator on
several research projects and has published many papers on the immunologic
aspects of kidney diseases.
Born and educated in India, Mattoo
received his MD degree from the University of Delhi. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at
Long Island Jewish Medical Center and
did his fellowship in nephrology at
Elmhurst
Hospital
Center
in
Queens. Certified by the American
Board of Internal Medicine and
Nephrology, Mattoo joined the medical
staff of Wyckoff Heights Medical
Center in Brooklyn where he served as
Medical Director, Chief of Nephrology
and President of the Medical Staff
before becoming an acting Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital. Mattoo
has since been an active teacher in
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center’s residency programs.
Please visit the Atlantic Dialysis
Center’s
website
at
www.atlanticdialysis.com. The site is
designed to be a tool through which
patients, physicians, associates and
potential employees can obtain the information they need about the company.
The site even boasts a comprehensive
career center that shows position
openings in all of the centers throughout
New York City and Long Island and
health news intended to help patients
make smarter decisions about how and
where they are treated.
For additional information, contact the
Atlantic Dialysis Management Services’
corporate office, located on the mezzanine level of 385 Seneca Avenue in
Ridgewood, at 718-483-7414.