Louisiana Nephrologist Has 40% Patients on Home Dialysis
“We do not promise patients it will be easy in the beginning, but we do promise it will be better,” says Dr. Shaminder Gupta. His home dialysis program in rural Louisiana has 40% of patients home—and COVID-19 is persuading some to switch. “A strategy for home dialysis growth has always been to approach patients at moments when they are feeling stress about in-center therapies, and this is one of those moments,” he notes.
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