Dialysis Care Center Duluth
A dialysis facility in Duluth, Georgia 30097
3980 Rogers Bridge Rd, Duluth, Georgia 30097. (470) 961-5700.
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The short answer
Record last released by CMS on Oct 28, 2026.
- Not rated CMS’s star rating
- Not rated patient survey rating
- 1 deficiency cited in the last three years
- 20 dialysis stations
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What these words mean2
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
The last inspection on record was on Nov 20, 2024: a standard inspection.
1 deficiency cited in the last three years.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
When those deficiencies happened
1 deficiency in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. Most serious: Standard-level. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.
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Each deficiency, as cited
Rule titles as CMS’s inspectors cite them, set in sentence case.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
Nov 20, 2024: standard inspection1 deficiency
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Ic - Aseptic Techniques For Iv Meds
The inspectors’ words, 423 words
“IC-ASEPTIC TECHNIQUES FOR IV MEDS CFR(s): 494.30(b)(2) [The facility must-] (2) Ensure that clinical staff demonstrate compliance with current aseptic techniques when dispensing and administering intravenous medications from vials and ampules; and This Standard is not met as evidenced by: 32734 Based on observation, staff interviews, and a review of facility Policy and Procedures (P&P), it was determined that the facility failed to ensure that staff demonstrated compliance with aseptic techniques when preparing normal saline flushes; and labeled syringes with the patient’s name, the name of medication/solution, and the date and time it was prepared along with the licensed nurse’s (preparer’s) initials per facilty P&P. This deficient practice had the potential to negatively affect the health and safety of one of two patients who received hemodialysis treatment at this facility. Findings were: During observation in the Patient Treatment Room on 11/20/24 between 9:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., this surveyor observed a staff member placed two unlabeled and undated 10 ml (milliliter) syringes filled with a clear colored liquid on the chairside table of a patient who was seated in Station (S) 1. During an interview on 11/30/24 at 10:45 a.m., the staff member was asked what was in the two unlabeled syringes. The staff member who identified himself as the Biomed Technician, stated “Those were saline flushes (sterile salt water). They are used when you have a difficult stick (cannulation of the arteriovenous fistula /graft). I pulled it up in the back and brought it to the nurse”. During an interview at approximately 11:30 a.m., with the Facility Administrator, the Biomed Technician was asked by the Facility Administrator to show where he got the saline flushes from. The Biomed Technician went into the Storage/Supply Room and removed a plastic bag of 0.9% Normal Saline from a box with unopened bags of 0.9% Normal Saline and stated he used the two 10 ml syringes to withdraw the Normal Saline from the bag and placed it on the patient’s chairside table. He then placed the used bag of Normal Saline back into the box with the sterile bags. A review of facility policy titled,”Medication Preparation and Administration” dated October 29, 2020 showed the following: Page 5 7. If the medication is not to be administered immediately, label the medication with the patient’s name, name and strength of the medication, date and time the medication was prepared and clinical staff’s initials. During an exit interview on 11/20/24 at approximately 2:00 p.m., the Director of Operations and the Area Operations Director were notified of the above findings.”
The one inspection in the last three years
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2024 | Standard inspection | 1 deficiency cited |
Is it certified?
- Medicare-certified dialysis facility, certified or last recertified on Dec 13, 2024.
- Run for profit.
- No For hospices, home health agencies, hospitals and dialysis facilities, CMS writes deficiencies at two levels. Standard is the usual one; condition-level is the more serious, when a problem is serious enough that the provider doesn’t meet a whole condition of taking part in Medicare. Source: CMS, State Operations Manual. deficiency on record in the last three years.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
Has it been penalized?
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for dialysis facilities.
- None of the deficiencies cited in the last three years came from an inspection that included a complaint investigation.
CMS, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.
What does it offer?
- Offers in-center hemodialysis.
- Doesn’t offer peritoneal dialysis, home hemodialysis training and a shift starting at 5 p.m. or later.
- 20 dialysis stations.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for dialysis facilities.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility and Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
Who owns it?
- CMS lists it as independent, not owned or managed by a chain.
- CMS publishes no owners file for dialysis facilities, so no other owner is named.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
How do patients fare?
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “Not enough quality measure data to calculate a star rating.”
- Compared by CMS with what it expects for the facility’s patients: patients dialysing through a fistula, as expected; patients on a kidney transplant waitlist, as expected.
- CMS gives no CMS rates some kinds of place from 1 to 5 stars, more stars meaning better on CMS’s own measures for that kind: for a nursing home, its health inspections, staffing and quality measures. A rating is CMS’s summary of those measures; it doesn’t promise good care. Source: CMS, Care Compare and the Five-Star Quality Rating System.: “Survey data not available for this reporting period.”
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility and Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
| Measure | Rating |
|---|---|
| Star ratingCMS’s star rating for dialysis facilities, 1 to 5 | Not rated |
| Patient survey ratingCMS star rating from its survey of the facility’s in-center hemodialysis patients (ICH CAHPS), 1 to 5 | Not rated |
How does it compare nearby?
- Of the 27 dialysis facilities CMS lists in Gwinnett County, 23 have a star rating from CMS: 3 rated 5 of 5, 2 rated 4 of 5, 14 rated 3 of 5, 4 rated 1 of 5.
- CMS gives this facility no star rating to compare.
CMS, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility. Released Jul 15, 2026. Updated quarterly.
What the record doesn’t say
- CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for dialysis facilities, so none are shown.
- Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
- QCOR says it has no dialysis inspection reports after February 19, 2026, while it moves to a new system: a later inspection is not shown yet.
- CMS doesn’t publish staffing levels for dialysis facilities.
- CMS publishes no owners file for dialysis facilities: the chain it lists is the only owner named.
Sources
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dialysis Facility - Listing by Facility (23ew-n7w9).
Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Patient survey (ICH CAHPS) - Facility (59mq-zhts).
Released Jul 15, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR Dialysis Facility (ESRD) 2567 statements of deficiencies (ESRD_2567s_2018_to_2026YTD.xlsx).
Released Oct 28, 2026 and checked Oct 30, 2026. Updated monthly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
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