Daedong Hospital Achieves First Grade in Blood Dialysis Appropriateness Evaluation ... Announced by Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service

Daedong Hospital Artificial Kidney Center, Nephrology Department, Chief Kim Minji.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Daedong Hospital recently received a Grade 1 rating in the 7th Hemodialysis Adequacy Evaluation announced by the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

The kidneys are organs located on each side of the back below the diaphragm, functioning as filters that remove waste products from the blood, as well as regulating osmotic pressure by controlling electrolyte and water balance, and managing blood pressure through blood volume restriction.

If the kidneys fail to function properly for various reasons, systemic problems arise, and treatments such as dietary therapy, medication, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, and kidney transplantation are carried out depending on the stage.

In particular, chronic kidney failure patients who cannot receive kidney transplants must undergo regular dialysis treatment to remove waste products from the blood. Hemodialysis is a treatment method that circulates the blood inside the body through a dialysis machine to remove accumulated waste and fluids, then returns the cleansed blood back to the body.

For hemodialysis patients, quality of life issues during treatment are significant, and mortality rates from stroke or heart disease are high. Therefore, it is very important to receive safe and appropriate care regularly from specialized dialysis medical staff.

As the number of hemodialysis patients increases due to population aging, the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service conducts hemodialysis adequacy evaluations that assess medical staff, facilities, and equipment to help patients easily and correctly choose hospitals, and publishes the results.

This evaluation targeted medical institutions possessing hemodialysis machines and with outpatient hemodialysis claims as of October 1, 2020, assessing treatment records over six months from October 1, 2020, for patients aged 18 or older who underwent hemodialysis at least twice a week in outpatient settings at the same institution.

Daedong Hospital received high scores in evaluation indicators such as the proportion of doctors specializing in hemodialysis, the proportion of nurses with more than two years of hemodialysis experience, possession of emergency equipment in the hemodialysis room, compliance rate with hemodialysis adequacy test intervals, and monitoring compliance for arteriovenous fistula stenosis.

Kim Minji, Head of the Artificial Kidney Center at Daedong Hospital (Nephrology Specialist), said, “As a result of the efforts by the medical staff at the Artificial Kidney Center to create an environment where patients can receive dialysis safely and comfortably, we were able to earn the title of a hospital that excels in hemodialysis. We will continue to strive to prevent complications in dialysis patients and improve their quality of life.”

Daedong Hospital has received certification twice in a row in the Excellent Artificial Kidney Room Certification Evaluation conducted by the Korean Society of Nephrology, undergoing a fair review process covering medical staff expertise, ethical management, infection control, patient management, and patient safety facilities.

With the increase of hemodialysis patients in the region, the hospital has additionally introduced the latest equipment capable of personalized dialysis for each patient and real-time dialysis effect monitoring, operates a separate negative pressure isolation dialysis room for infection prevention, and recently surpassed 1,000 monthly hemodialysis sessions, gaining positive responses from local kidney disease patients.

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