Where home atmosphere meets medicine
The Dialysis Cottage was founded in 1999 by Gainesville Memorial Hospital. The administration hired a nephrologist as medical director and then started hiring the staff to help with the finalization of the facility. The Dialysis Cottage got its start in a renovated house as North Central Texas Dialysis. It was not until confusion with another facility's name did North Central Texas Dialysis become The Dialysis Cottage. The name change raised a few eyebrows but was very fitting to the atmosphere that the staff of "The Cottage" wanted for their patients, and being in a renovated house didn't hurt either.
The Dialysis Cottage started life as a seven station facility with three staff. There was the Director of Nursing, the Charge Nurse and the Biomedical/Patient Care Tech. After all the renovation and construction was complete and the proper paper work filed with the State of Texas, The Cottage ran their first patient on February 14, 2000. It was a grand day for the town of Gainesville, Texas. The hospital was adding another service to its long list of services that it could offer to the community of Gainesville and Cooke County.
As the years passed, The Cottage added patients and Gainesville Memorial Hospital needed new space. The administration of the hospital started making plans for a new hospital along with a new dialysis facility. The new hospital was completed and ready for patients on August 17, 2004. The new dialysis facility was completed approximately the same time. The nice thing about the new hospital, the dialysis facility almost tripled in size. It also went from seven stations to twelve stations with new state of the art dialysis machines.
Along with a new hospital came a new name. Gainesville Memorial Hospital became North Texas Medical Center. The Cottage had new space but wanted to keep the same name. It was a challenge to keep the same home type environment with a new facility but it was possible. The staff worked very hard to keep that home type atmosphere.
In August of 2007, The Dialysis Cottage broke away from the hospital becoming privately owned and operated. While some of the staffing changed, management stayed the same along with the same principles. We will continue to provide the most advanced therapy for our patients.