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+language:
+- en
+pretty_name: Medicare Dialysis Facilities
+tags:
+- hhs
+- cms
+- medicare
+---
+
+# Medicare Dialysis Facilities
+
+## Description
+
+The Medicare Dialysis Facilities data provides information on clinical and patient measures for Medicare-certified ESRD facilities, also known as dialysis facilities. It contains data on patient characteristics, treatment patterns, hospitalization, mortality, and transplantation patterns in Medicare-certified dialysis facilities.
+
+ 
+
+Note: This full dataset contains more records than most spreadsheet programs can handle, which will result in an incomplete load of data. Use of a database or statistical software is required.
+
+## Dataset Details
+
+- **Publisher**: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
+- **Temporal Coverage**: 2009-01-01/2024-12-31
+- **Last Modified**: 2024-02-29
+- **Contact**: ESRD Questions - CCSQ ([email protected])
+
+## Source
+
+Original data can be found at: https://data.cms.gov/quality-of-care/medicare-dialysis-facilities
+
+## Usage
+
+You can load this dataset using:
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/medicare-dialysis-facilities')
+```
+## License
+
+This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works