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Vascular Access Center Provides Care to Kidney Patients

The Vascular Access Center at the University of Tennessee Medical Center provides comprehensive vascular access care to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients throughout the region.

The Vascular Access Center’s focus is to provide you a Five Star Experience by creating a virtually seamless flow through the medical center.

Its goal is to provide you with a quality functional vascular access as well as keeping you from missing dialysis treatments and having unnecessary hospitalizations. This will be achieved through a team approach between the vascular access coordinator, your dialysis clinic, your nephrologist and your vascular surgeon.

The center is committed to offering you the advances being made in the vascular access field and to provide these services to you as they become available.

The UT Medical Center’s Vascular Access Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information or an appointment, call 865.305.6655

Vascular Access Coordinator - Rebecca Jarvis, RN, CCTC
Medical Director - Oscar Grandas, MD

For after-hours emergencies, please call 911 or your vascular surgeon’s office.

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