Roxanne Garcia On Dialysis Clinic Closure In Mammoth

Roxanne Garcia

 A Facebook post from the team leader of our local clinic:
  Update on the Mammoth Dialysis Center. We are officially closed now as most people in our community know. As the manager this has been a difficult time. Today was my last day and as I sat there in the empty clinic I couldn’t help but feel so sad for our community. We treated patients from Kearny all the way to Catalina. And all towns in between. This clinic provided life saving treatments, which are still available,but now are such a burden for local patients and family’s to get to. So many memories in that building. For the patients and staff we become like extended family because we see each other 3times a week.
  Between my staff and I we had over 70 years of experience in dialysis. I TRULY HAD A GREAT TEAM. Our clinic was one of the top performing clinics in Southeast AZ. We had high scores in all our quality measures. This tragedy boils down to profit unfortunately. We were not making a profit for the company. I appreciate all the local concern and commitment to trying to keep us open. I don’t believe any one person or local official could have changed the outcome though unfortunately. I’m trying to see a silver lining in all this, but I can’t.

   Closure of this top performing clinic was a huge blow to all of us in Oracle, the Tri-Community and Copper Corridor.