AUBURN — Fresenius Medical Care North America recently awarded its Fresenius Medical Care Androscoggin facility at 1100 Minot Ave. the Center of Excellence designation for achieving the highest standards in patient care in 2012. These annual awards recognize the best performing FMCNA dialysis facilities nationwide, based on multiple objective measures of clinical quality.

Fresenius Medical Care has established high standards of clinical quality companywide, based on those recommended by the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative of the National Kidney Foundation. Fresenius Medical Care evaluates facilities for Center of Excellence recognition by reviewing key patient outcome measures such as dialysis adequacy, control of anemia, nutritional status, patient satisfaction and transplant education.

For more information about this and other Fresenius Medical Care dialysis clinics, visit www.ultracare-dialysis.com or call 1-866-434-2597.