Kaweah Delta Visalia Dialysis
Serving All of Tulare County
Kaweah Delta Health Care District offers patients access to a hemodialysis
facility in Visalia. Our caring staff provides outreach treatment to meet
the special needs of dialysis patients. Kaweah Delta also provides peritoneal
dialysis for renal patients who select that modality. The peritoneal nurses
work out of a newly enlarged department at the Community Health Center.
Kaweah Delta Visalia Dialysis address:
5040 W. Tulare Ave.
Visalia, CA 93277
559-624-3600
The Visalia location is the largest hospital-based facility in the South
Valley. Our caring staff provides outreach treatment to meet the special
needs of dialysis patients. Kaweah Delta also provides peritoneal dialysis
for renal patients who select that modality. The peritoneal nurses work
out of a newly enlarged department at the Community Health Center. An
average of 52 patients are served in the CAPD and CCPD departments.
What is Dialysis?
Dialysis is a machine that performs the same functions as your kidneys
after they have failed. The kidneys have the important job of removing
waste from your body and maintaining appropriate chemicals balances. Kidney
failure is usually permanent, and a person cannot survive without their
essential function. The only way to cure kidney failure is with a transplant,
but this can often be difficult to obtain. In the interim, dialysis will
keep your body regulated until an alternative is found. A patient may
be on dialysis for the rest of their life if they are unable or unwilling
to receive a transplant.
Hemodialysis, which is offered at Kaweah Delta's facility, is the process
of hooking a patient up to an artificial kidney to remove waste from the
blood. The alternative to hemodialysis is peritoneal dialysis, in which
the patient has a fluid pumped into their abdomen that removes waste and
chemicals.
If you have questions for the dialysis department, please call 559-624-3600.