Beckie Michael, D.O.
Medical Director
Phone: 215-955-8522

834 Walnut St. (Outpatient)
Philadelphia, PA 19107

The Intermediate Dialysis Unit at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital currently cares for 120 chronic hemodialysis and 25 peritoneal dialysis patients, offering the best in state-of-the-art dialysis care. During the past two years, new HD machines have been purchaced as well as a dialysis software package to improve patient care. Synthetic dialyzers (no reuse), high blood flow and conventional dialysis time (usually 4 hours), are used to achieve excellent adequacy of dialysis.

The care of patients with End Stage Renal Disease is approached in a multidisciplinary fashion, with the active involvement of nephrologists, nurses, dieticians, and social workers. The standardized mortality rate remains low (0.68), with a gross annual mortality of only 14.4percent. The dialysis unit has been chosen as a center for excellence by ESRD Network 4.