DaVita, Inc. is one of the largest kidney care companies in the United States

United States

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, with corporate headquarters in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

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. Their offerings include in-center hemodialysis

Hemodialysis

In medicine, hemodialysis is a method for removing waste products such as creatinine and urea, as well as free water from the blood when the kidneys are in renal failure. Hemodialysis is one of three renal replacement therapies .Hemodialysis can be an outpatient or inpatient therapy...

, peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis

Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment for patients with severe chronic kidney disease. The process uses the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen as a membrane across which fluids and dissolved substances are exchanged from the blood...

, home hemodialysis

Home hemodialysis

Home hemodialysis , is the provision of hemodialysis in the home of people with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. In the US home hemodialysis was the most common method of renal replacement therapy in the early 1970s before the introduction of the Federal ESRD program under Medicare...

, vascular access management, chronic kidney disease education, and renal diet assistance.

History

DaVita was founded in 1999 and was formerly known as Total Renal Care. DaVita was featured as a Stanford Business School case.

Awards and Rankings

• Rated by Fortune Magazine as Top 10 Most Admired Healthcare Companies for the fifth year
• Number 433 on the 2009 FORTUNE 500
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• Number 355 on the 2010 FORTUNE 500

Relocation

In November 2010, DaVita headquarters relocated from Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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to Denver, Colorado.

External links

• About DaVita - A description of the company by the company.