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Alabama DOC Has New Dialysis Unit
Alabama Department of Corrections officials unveiled on Friday a new, improved and larger hemodialysis unit at St. Clair Correctional Facility, a move that they said would save taxpayer money and staff time. Reported by the Birmingham News.
Hemodialysis involves machines which function as a kidney when someone’s own kidneys fail to perform their function of removing waste and excess water from blood. The St. Clair prison is the main hemodialysis center for the Alabama prison system and its eight-chair clinic had been servicing about 40 patients on a six-day-per-week, three-shift schedule. Starting Friday, a 21-chair clinic, in its own building, will replace the old unit and Naglich said it could mean up to $2 million in annual savings for the financially strapped corrections department …
Building and equipping the facility cost $1.3 million, which Corrections raised through the sale of land it no longer had use for. The old clinic, part of the prison infirmary, had 5,000 patient visits last year, Porter said.
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