Thread: Dialysis patients lose access to treatments at national prov

Dialysis patients lose access to treatments at national provider

Advocate says Grady emergency room is now the immigrants’ only option

By Misty Williams

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Twenty-two former Grady Memorial Hospital patients, many of them uninsured illegal immigrants, had potential life-saving dialysis treatments discontinued Thursday after a contract between the hospital and a national dialysis provider expired.

Most of the patients, because they are in the country illegally, don’t qualify for Medicare, which covers dialysis for most Americans with end-stage renal disease. Without regular dialysis, experts say, people suffering from the disease can die within weeks.

The emergency room is now the immigrants’ only option, said Dorothy Leone-Glasser, president of the nonprofit Advocates for Responsible Care.

“These patients are left in a very dangerous situation,â€

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200 hundred Americans lost their jobs and 2 clinics were forced to close so these 25 ingrates would continue to get free care? That's the tragedy. Ship them back to their birth countries and let nature takes its course.

We are not the providers of free medical care for the world's populations, when so many of our don't have access to medical care (free or not), so why are letting this happen?!?!