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El Camino Hospital kicked off a joint-venture partnership last month with Satellite Healthcare to continue providing local patients with dialysis services following the hospital’s decision to shut down all three of its own dialysis facilities.
The deal marks a culmination of several years of work between the hospital and Satellite, according to Glenn Davis, chief innovation and commercial officer for the dialysis company. With the partnership, El Camino now has a nearby dialysis center that nephrologists can refer patients to, Davis said. Satellite Healthcare recently opened up a dialysis center just up the road from the hospital at 247 West El Camino Real.
El Camino Hospital shut down its last dialysis center earlier this year after years of losing money on the service. Davis said it was commonplace for hospitals to run dialysis centers in the 1970s, but hospitals have since “exited” the dialysis business as private companies have been able to run the service more efficiently.
“In the last 20 to 30 years we’ve seen a huge shift in who owns and operates dialysis services,” Davis said. “El Camino Hospital is just one piece of that migration.”
