NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A dialysis clinic in western Tennessee has been shut down by state regulators over concerns of patients being put at risk for bloodstream infections.
The Tennessee Department of Health this month reported that the license for Advanced Dialysis Clinic LLC in Medina was revoked.
The Tennessean reported (http://tnne.ws/1t3cWVw ) that regulators concluded the clinic failed to follow through on a plan of corrections after state officials saw several infection control violations during a January inspection.
The state in 2012 began requiring dialysis centers to report bloodstream infections, but Tennessee is not yet releasing infection rates for individual dialysis centers as it does for hospitals. Clusters of bloodstream infections occurred at two dialysis centers in the state last year.
