Why Athens Kidney Center?

The physicians at Athens Kidney Center have a long track record of compassionate patient care. Since 2000, we have provided state-of-the-art specialist kidney care to Northern Georgia. We are available for any patient at any stage of kidney disease. Our goal is to extend provide high quality clinical care with compassion and integrity.

All our physicians have completed medical school at well-rated institutions, before post-graduate training in Internal Medicine, as well as sub-specialty training in Kidney Diseases & Hypertension. Our doctors are board-certified in their specialties. We are trained to effectively diagnose and treat all inherited and acquired kidney conditions, as well as provide dialysis care, transplantation services, and control severe arterial hypertension.

Our experts have contributed to our present knowledge of kidney diseases by completing groundbreaking basic research, writing medical books/chapters, and publishing scientific papers on kidney diseases. We encourage both direct 1:1 clinical care as well as clinical research. That way, we remain at the forefront of new knowledge in our respective fields.

Our staff is dedicated to comprehensive kidney care. We offer free educational seminars to all members of staff, and sponsor others to national conferences on kidney diseases. At Athens Kidney Center, training is a continuous process. Each day, we all learn from one another. Each day, we perform better at our chosen task.

We provide in-center dialysis care at all our well-appointed campuses in Athens, Madison, Commerce, Lake Hartwell and Eatonton. Each facility is under the management of an Administrator and a Director of Nursing. All our specialists ?round? regularly at those facilities.

Patients are encouraged to consider kidney transplantation as an option for permanent kidney failure. After full evaluation, such patients are referred to our surgical transplantation affiliates at Medical College of Georgia, Emory University or Piedmont Hospital. Each transplant program is nationally credentialed, and post-surgery care is carried out in concert with the primary transplant team.

We provide clinical care to all our patients 24/7. Routine office hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. We ?round? daily on our hospital and dialysis patients, and we are only a phone call away in emergencies.

Our job is to make your kidneys work better, and make your life better overall. We try to make your office visits as smooth as possible. We accept most insurance plans, and we also accept co-payments in cash, personal checks, money orders, traveler?s checks or by credit card. Payment plans can be arranged to best fit your situation. Financial support is available to the indigent. In keeping with our tradition since inception, regardless of your ability to pay, we will never turn you down.

To make an appointment to see 1 of our kidney specialists, call any of the numbers listed below. We look forward to seeing you very soon. Welcome to Athens Kidney Center.

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