Patients of Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center's Creighton Dialysis Center will have a larger facility and brand new equipment beginning in early 2007. The Dialysis Center, currently located at 1717 Medical Drive, Findlay, will move to Riverview Suites, 1000 E. Main Cross Street, in mid-February.

"We're excited about moving to this larger (6,500 sq. ft.) space and being able to provide the latest in technology and equipment to our patients," says Deborah Geiger, RN, dialysis director. "We will provide everything in patient comfort, from a view of the Blanchard River, to cable television."

BVRHC has also announced that Shaukat Rashid, MD and Zafar Magsi, MD have been named medical directors for the dialysis program and have already begun seeing patients.  The physicians, practicing as Lake Erie Nephrology and Hypertension Associates, Inc., have recently established an office in Findlay on the second floor of the Center for Diagnostic Studies on the BVRHC Findlay campus. Appointments can be made by calling 419-291-2123.

"With two medical directors, we hope to significantly decrease the wait time to see a nephrologist," adds Geiger.  "We have actually doubled physician coverage for our kidney patients."

For more information on BVRHC's dialysis program, contact Deborah Geiger at The Creighton Dialysis Center, 419-423-5184.