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SEPTEMBER 2009

BUSINESS • REAL ESTATE • HOME IMPROVEMENT

BY CHRISTINA SHANAHANeditorial@queenscourier.com

With a long history of providing nephrologists and dialysis centersthe methods and means to offer superior care to patients with chronickidney disease in New York, Atlantic Dialysis Management Services(ADMS) ensures that patients are cared for by a staff that is qualifiedand sensitive to their needs and by a company that has achievedrespect and recognition.

Atlantic Dialysis Management Services was established to providenew dialysis site development and day-to-day administration and

management of services for a group of dialysis facilities treatingthose with chronic kidney disease. As opposed to other dialysis facil-ities that are operated by public companies, ADMS is an independent,physician-owned company. Central to the ADMS strategy is maxi-mizing individual site results through consolidated activities. Skillednephrologists with the highest caliber of training and educationadminister the long-term control of these clinical services.

The scope of ADMS extends throughout the boroughs of New YorkCity and Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island. Affiliatedialysis centers of ADMS will provide more than 200,000 treatmentsin 2009 to over 1,500 patients in New York City and Long Island.

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GOOD CLINICAL OUTCOMES THAT CATER TO PATIENTS’ NEEDSEach chronic dialysis center contracts with ADMS foradministrative and operational support activities.ADMS handles the recruiting of dialysis center staff,ongoing staff education, performance improvement,billing and collection, joint purchasing, joint managedcare contracting and developing common operatingprocedures and systems across all sites. The financial,accounting and corporate functions for each site arealso carried out by ADMS. In addition, ADMS providespractice management services to nephrologists andacute dialysis services to hospitals.

The free standing dialysis centers under the ADMSumbrella include Ridgewood Dialysis Center, one of thelargest dialysis centers in the country with 43 stations;Newtown Dialysis Center in Long Island City with 24stations; College Point Dialysis Center in northernQueens with 24 stations; West Nassau Dialysis Center inValley Stream with 24 stations; New Hyde Park DialysisCenter in northwestern Nassau County with 24 stations;Central Brooklyn Dialysis Center in northeasternBrooklyn with 30 stations; Astoria Dialysis Center inthe heart of Astoria’s entertainment district with 24 sta-tions; Broadway Dialysis Center with 20 stations inlicensed space at Elmhurst Hospital Center; East EndDialysis Center in Riverhead in Suffolk County with 24stations; New York Renal Associates Dialysis Center inthe south Bronx with 40 stations; and the newly openedand operating Springfield Dialysis Center in south-eastern Queens with 24 stations.

In addition to the free-standing centers mentionedabove, ADMS provides acute dialysis services to severalhospitals through management contracts with its affil-

iated companies. These services are currently providedto Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hos-pital of Queens and Peconic Bay Medical Center. For2009, it is estimated that ADMS will do over 7,000treatments in these sites. Home programs are alsooffered for treatment through Continuous AmbulatoryPeritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) and Continuous Cycled Peri-toneal Dialysis (CCPD). At the Ridgewood DialysisCenter, home hemodialysis training is offered usingNxStage machines.

The ADMS business model is aimed at achieving goodclinical outcomes, but never at the expense of patients’comfort during the treatment process. For this reason,each facility is designed to provide a sense of comfortfor those being treated. Elements provided by ADMSfacilities that are often not found at other dialysiscenters include state-of-the-art flat-screen televisionswith Direct TV programming, soft lighting, beautifulfish tanks and wireless internet access.

“These are amenities that provide tremendous comfortto patients undergoing a complex and lengthy dialysistreatment,” said David Scott, MD, of the SpringfieldDialysis Center. “I have worked in a number of dialysisfacilities, but I have never seen the level of profession-alism and patient care that Atlantic Dialysis provides inall of their facilities.”

The Springfield Dialysis Center in SpringfieldGardens, of which Scott is the main nephrologist andAssociate Medical Director, opened this past Augustand is the newest edition to the ADMS network. Scotthas practiced nephrology in southeastern Queens forthe past 15 years. He was trained in Nephrology at

Columbia University College of Physicians and Sur-geons and Harlem Hospital before starting a Hyper-tension Clinic at Mary Immaculate, eventuallybecoming the Director of Nephrology. For several yearsduring that time, Scott was also the medical director ofa local dialysis facility in Queens.

Scott said he formed a goal several years ago to opena comprehensive diagnostic and treatment center forchronic kidney disease that would research andevaluate new therapies to slow the progression ofkidney disease and provide dialysis services for thosepatients with advanced chronic kidney disease. “Thisvision is now realized with the opening of the Spring-field Dialysis Center,” Scott said. “For the first time wewill have a center in our community that can provide acomprehensive approach to kidney care.”

Scott, who also recently founded Clinical ResearchDevelopment Associates to perform clinical researchwithin groups that are typically under-represented inclinical trials, said that the most unique feature of Spring-field Dialysis Center is that it offers a very comprehensiveapproach to the care of patients with kidney diseases.

“Patients may participate in research that introducesthem to new therapies in the treatment of kidneydisease and it offers excellent, comprehensive dialysisservices for those patients who have progressed,” heexplained. Some of these services include in-centerhemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and homehemodialysis. In addition, Springfield Dialysis Centerhas an experienced full-time nephrologist on thepremises at all times.

In addition to the newly-opened Springfield Dialysis

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(Above) Dr. David Scott of Springfield Dialysis. (Right top) Nancy Cano, ResearchCoordinator. (Right bottom) Garnette Mason, Study Coordinator

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CENTERS WITH A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO KIDNEY CARECenter, ADMS is a rapidly growing for-profit dialysis management companywith 10 sites, making it the third largestin New York State. The first ADMSdialysis center was established in 1991 inthe Ridgewood section of Queens County.It has since established its other facilitiesin Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, andNassau and Suffolk Counties. One of thelargest employers in Queens County,ADMS currently has over 300 employees.

The expansion of ADMS is particularlynotable given the competitive market inwhich it has grown. The past 18 yearshave seen an extraordinarily competitiveNew York market with the expansion andconsolidation of several major nationalchains. The construction of new dialysiscenters in the New York metropolitanarea, upstate New York, New Jersey andConnecticut in the future will see to thecompany’s continued expansion.

A true testament to the quality healthcare and business practices of ADMS, thecompany is often consulted by hospitals,other health care entities and the NewYork State Department of Health onmatters related to chronic kidney diseasesand end stage renal disease. ADMS and itsaffiliates have been considered one of NewYork State’s best choices for dialysis and ithas maintained its image by developingpatient-friendly facilities with employees

dedicated to excellent care.Co-principals of ADMS, Dr. J.G. Bhat,

MD, and Dr. Nirmal K. Mattoo, MD,founded the company after years ofoperating their private practice, Mattooand Bhat Medical Associates, PC, one ofthe largest group practices in New YorkCity devoted exclusively to nephrology.Bhat has practiced Nephrology for morethan 30 years and holds medical andpost-graduate degrees from MysoreMedical College and Kasturba MedicalCollege in India. He has completed a fel-lowship in Nephrology at New York Uni-

versity as well as a post-doctoral fel-lowship with New York State KidneyDisease Institute. Bhat, a diplomat of theAmerican Boards of Internal Medicineand Nephrology, has been principalinvestigator and co-investigator onseveral research projects and has pub-lished many papers on the immunologicaspects of kidney diseases.

Born and educated in India, Mattooreceived his MD degree from the Uni-versity of Delhi. He completed his resi-dency training in Internal Medicine atLong Island Jewish Medical Center and

did his fellowship in nephrology atElmhurst Hospital Center inQueens. Certified by the AmericanBoard of Internal Medicine andNephrology, Mattoo joined the medicalstaff of Wyckoff Heights MedicalCenter in Brooklyn where he served asMedical Director, Chief of Nephrologyand President of the Medical Staffbefore becoming an acting Chief Exec-utive Officer of the Hospital. Mattoohas since been an active teacher inWyckoff Heights Medical Center’s res-idency programs.

Please visit the Atlantic DialysisCenter’s website atwww.atlanticdialysis.com. The site isdesigned to be a tool through whichpatients, physicians, associates andpotential employees can obtain the infor-mation they need about the company.The site even boasts a comprehensivecareer center that shows positionopenings in all of the centers throughoutNew York City and Long Island andhealth news intended to help patientsmake smarter decisions about how andwhere they are treated.

For additional information, contact theAtlantic Dialysis Management Services’corporate office, located on the mez-zanine level of 385 Seneca Avenue inRidgewood, at 718-483-7414.

Xenea Davas, age 79 is one of theSpringfield Dialysis centers newpatients, along with Dr. David Scott.(Right) One of the many dialysismachines.

Patients receiving treatment.

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