Dialysis Partnerships for Hospitals and Health Systems

Working with IRC

We believe that the continuity of care of kidney care patients is vital, and we help our partners ensure their patients receive the right care while they’re in the hospital and beyond. Our acute care services are comprehensive, efficient and transparent, and we help providers drive better care coordination across all specialties. As a result, our partners see improved patient tracking, lower hospital readmissions and better patient outcomes.

We are experts in running dialysis programs with a partner – and we do this through our differentiated hospital-based services:

  • Efficient patient and staff scheduling
  • Transparent billing
  • Reproducible quality metrics
  • Integrated EMR
  • Regular input from our partners

Acute

Dialysis with Innovative Renal Care

Innovative Renal Care partners with hospitals and health systems to deliver reliable, efficient, and high-quality acute dialysis services. Our programs are designed to improve patient outcomes, streamline hospital operations, and strengthen continuity of care from admission through discharge. Innovative Renal Care is committed to expanding access for hospital-based dialysis that is safe, transparent, and integrated with each facility's care model. 

By the

Numbers

230+ outpatient dialysis clinics operating nationwide across 28 states plus Washington DC

Over 500 joint ventured physician partners and more than 1,200 credentialed nephrologists

Serving over 16,000 patients across hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and home hemodialysis therapies

99% CRRT device uptime, ensuring reliable therapy delivery 

<30-minute average order-to-treatment start time, improving timeliness of care 

How We Work

Health systems leverage our rich data analytics to make informed decisions that elevate patient care and outcomes. We are an agile extension of your team, expanding your organization’s capabilities to grow service lines and provide better care for the patients served by your health system.

Health systems benefit from a collaboratively developed multi-year plan that:

  • Builds a comprehensive kidney care model for your system
  • Expands your service offerings
  • Increases your participation in the overall patient experience and outcomes
  • Connects patients with the appropriate providers to manage comorbidities
  • Fulfills unmet chronic kidney disease needs in your community

Committed to 5-Star Quality Care and Patient Experience

Quality and safety are central to every acute program operated by Innovative Renal Care. Each hospital partnership follows a defined Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) framework focused on measurable outcomes and patient safety. IRC collaborates with hospital committees and medical directors to establish shared goals, track key performance indicators, and develop quality initiatives that improve patient care. 

Performance metrics include readmission rates, treatment volumes by modality, treatment wait times, infection control practices (including CLABSI), and average length of stay. All quality data are reviewed regularly with hospital partners to meet Joint Commission requirements and align with value-based contracting objectives. IRC's consistent monitoring and transparent reporting allow hospitals to maintain compliance while improving dialysis care delivery for patients in both critical care and medical-surgical settings. 

Our Five-Step Approach

We use a five-step approach to help your organization provide better patient care and create new service line opportunities:

1

Discovery

We combine insights from your organization’s key stakeholders with our expertise and care model to lay the foundation for a customized solution.

2

Analysis

We identify and prioritize your most valuable near- and long-term opportunities.

3

Strategy

You get a tailored multi-year playbook that maps out your custom strategy. We outline the required investments and help you bring chronic kidney disease services in-house. You’ll tap our experience and resources.

4

Activation

Time to deploy your playbook and build your kidney care service line through early patient identification, in-center dialysis services, acute care services and at-home dialysis care.

5

Innovation

After activating, we assess your strategy and adapt your plan to capture the unique opportunities and challenges that your organization possesses.

Reimagining How Kidney Care is Provided

We are the trusted experts and preferred partners among patients, physicians and healthcare providers – delivering dialysis and kidney care in a way that it has never been done before. We are built on relationships and work with many different specialties to provide an extension of the work they are already doing today to treat patients with high-touch healthcare needs.

Join us in helping patients travel through the care continuum by driving care coordination across all your specialties to provide better patient tracking, while lowering hospital readmissions and improving patient outcomes.

Innovation Partners in Dialysis

Innovative Renal Care integrates data, technology, and strategic partnerships to continuously improve patient outcomes and hospital performance. Through collaboration with Quanta, and the use of proprietary AI-enabled platforms like InnovAItive, IRC helps hospitals identify opportunities for clinical and operational improvement within their dialysis programs.

These tools support predictive modeling, treatment tracking, and performance reporting that align with hospital-based quality initiatives. By combining real-time analytics with IRC’s operational expertise, each hospital partner gains clear visibility into care trends, efficiency metrics, and economic outcomes that drive better decision-making and sustained program improvement.

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