NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.,
May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ Health System)
and DaVita Kidney Care, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners
(NYSE: DVA) today announced a new joint venture to serve thousands
of patients in Queens and
Long Island with integrated kidney
care.
The joint venture between DaVita, which runs more than 2,300
outpatient dialysis centers in 11 countries, including the United States, and Northwell Health,
New York state's largest health
care provider and private employer, also includes plans for
additional expansion in Staten
Island over the coming years.
"Bringing together the resources of two high-quality health care
providers like Northwell Health and DaVita will significantly
enhance the services we'll be able to provide to kidney dialysis
patients throughout the New York
area," said Steven Fishbane, MD,
chief of nephrology and vice president of dialysis services at
Northwell Health, and medical director of the new dialysis network
being established with DaVita. "It's a major development that will
lead to new cutting-edge advancements in the delivery of nephrology
services, including greater expansion of in-home dialysis services,
which are currently limited to about 325 of the approximately 7,000
residents of Long Island and
Queens receiving dialysis
treatment."
"We have a shared vision for kidney care services that combines
an exciting strategy, resources and cutting-edge services," said
Javier Rodriguez, president and CEO
of DaVita Kidney Care. "It will
impact thousands of lives for years to come."
The joint venture will provide kidney care services in a
multi-phased approach, including:
- Physician education and support
- Chronic kidney disease education
- Network of outpatient centers
- Hospital
services
- Vascular access
- Integrated care
- Clinical research
- Transplant services
As part of the first phase of the partnership, construction is
ongoing on Nassau County's first
freestanding home dialysis center at Cisney Avenue in Floral Park, which is scheduled to open later
this year. Nurses at the new facility will instruct dialysis
patients on how to use in-home dialysis equipment and also visit
their homes regularly to ensure they are using it properly. It
enables patients to care for themselves in the convenience and
privacy of their own homes -- most patients require three weekly
dialysis sessions. "Autonomy is important for our dialysis patients
and greatly improves their quality of life," said Dr. Fishbane.
The new partnership between DaVita and Northwell will encourage
more in-home treatment at the joint centers being opened throughout
Long Island and Queens. DaVita and Northwell have already
assumed joint ownership and operation of the DaVita Dialysis Center
at 50 Seaview Blvd. in Port
Washington. Later this year, two other existing DaVita
facilities in Huntington Station
and Syosset will also become part
of the new joint venture. By year five, the joint venture should
serve 1,200 patients in the area.
"This partnership with DaVita is the latest in a series of joint
ventures that Northwell Health has signed to provide convenient,
easy access to our continuum of care in communities throughout the
metropolitan area, while leveraging the expertise of business
partners like DaVita who have well-established reputations for
their clinical leadership," said Michael Dowling, president and
chief executive officer of Northwell Health.
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About Northwell Health
Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ Health
System) is New York State's
largest health care provider and private employer. With 21
hospitals and nearly 450 outpatient practices, we
serve more than 1.8 million people annually in the
metro New York area and beyond. Our 61,000 employees work
to change health care for the better. We're making
breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institute. We're
training the next generation of medical professionals at the
visionary Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and
the School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant
Studies. And we offer health insurance
through CareConnect. For information on our services in more
than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu.
About DaVita Kidney
Care
DaVita Kidney
Care is a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a
Fortune 500® company that, through its operating divisions,
provides a variety of health care services to patient populations
throughout the United States and
abroad. A leading provider of dialysis services in the United States, DaVita Kidney Care treats patients with chronic
kidney failure and end stage renal disease. DaVita Kidney Care strives to improve patients'
quality of life by innovating clinical care, and by offering
integrated treatment plans, personalized care teams and convenient
health-management services. As of March 31,
2016, DaVita Kidney Care
operated or provided administrative services at 2,278 outpatient
dialysis centers located in the United
States serving approximately 180,000 patients. The company
also operated 124 outpatient dialysis centers located in 10
countries outside the United
States. DaVita Kidney Care
supports numerous programs dedicated to creating positive,
sustainable change in communities around the world. The company's
leadership development initiatives and social responsibility
efforts have been recognized by Fortune, Modern Healthcare,
Newsweek and WorldBlu. For more information, please visit
DaVita.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal
securities laws. All statements that do not concern historical
facts are forward-looking statements and include, among other
things, statements about our expectations, beliefs, intentions
and/or strategies for the future, including the prospective
performance of or synergies created by the joint venture,
anticipated and prospective growth of its business operations and
the demand for its services, and the clinical outcomes that the
joint venture and its partners might deliver. Factors which
could impact future results include the risks and uncertainties
associated with our ability to complete the formation of any joint
venture that we might be considering or announce, or successfully
operate or complete the development of any joint venture we may
form or plan to grow, general economic and other local market
conditions, competition, and the risk factors set forth in our
filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, and subsequent quarterly
reports filed on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements should
be considered in light of these risks and uncertainties. We
base our forward-looking statements on information currently
available to us at the time of this release, and we undertake no
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of changes in underlying factors, new
information, future events or otherwise.
Media Contacts:
Terry
Lynam/Northwell
Health
516-321-6702/6701
tlynam@northwell.edu
Kevin Downey, DaVita
303-876-6600
kevin.downey@davita.com
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