Dialysis Clinic, Inc. is a nonprofit medical corporation founded in 1971 and chartered as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization under IRS regulations.
DCI's laboratory division was established in response to nephrologists’ request for personnel and instrumentation in tune with the dialysis community.
DCI Laboratory provides services and testing technologies for health care providers and their ESRD patients, including: The Dialysis Clinic, Inc.'s partner location with Tufts Medical Center is located adjacent to Tufts Medical Center and their Nephrology division at 35 Kneeland St, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111.
The values of non-profit, quality, integrity, service, and leadership drive Dialysis Clinic, Inc. towards this goal.
[7] Tufts Medical Center and the Dialysis Clinic, Inc. provide care to patients with chronic kidney disease in the Boston area.
Schwartz was an integral part of the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center, remaining involved with the group until 1976.
[9] Tufts University School of Medicine and the Division of Nephrology have been extremely influential since the group's inception in the research space, specifically in relation to diet and other affects human habits have on kidney health.
In 1986 Tufts Medical Center partnered with Dialysis Clinic, Inc. to extend its efforts of providing care to patients with chronic kidney disease.
[8] One of the most notable practices that Tufts Medical Center engaged in after 1976 was the publishing of the "Nephrology Forum" in Kidney International.
In 1991, Tufts Medical Center and Dialysis Clinic, Inc. studies the transmission of the Hepatits C virus by organ transplantation.
In 1994, Tufts Medical Center and Dialysis Clinic, Inc. were able to implement patients based outcome assessments.
In 2016, the Office of Clinical Research now played a major role in facilitating multisite projects through identifying and confirming participation from the clinics and investigators that are best suited to a particular project, preparing budgets and IRB documents, orchestrating data transfers from the Medical Information System (MIS) and serving as a liaison between study Sponsors, individual investigators/research sites, and the dialysis staff.