Excellence in Patient Care

Outpatient Services

The outpatient clinics of the Nephrology Division care for more than 3,000 general nephrology patients, 2,000 solid organ transplant recipients, and 300 patients on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis. In addition, the Nephrology Division has an outpatient Renal Function Laboratory that performs inulin clearances for the precise determination of glomerular filtration rates, both for clinical and research applications.  Other outpatient activities include the performance of percutaneous native and transplant kidney biopsies, approximately 100 and 250 per year, respectively. 

Clinic Sites

OSU Nephrology Division
456 West Tenth Ave
Third Floor, 3A Desk, Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 293-4997

OSU Nephrology Division (East Office) 
1492 East Broad Street
Suite 1100
Columbus, Ohio 43213

OSU Nephrology Division at Bellefontaine,
Madriver Clinic
130 Dowell Avenue
Bellefontaine, OH 43311

Inpatient Service

The inpatient clinical activities of the Nephrology Division include a dedicated Nephrology service, a Consultative Nephrology service, and Transplant Medicine service at Ohio State University Hospitals; as well as a Consultative Service at OSU East. The Nephrology service is dedicated to caring for patients with renal disease and its associated problems. The average daily census of the Nephrology service is 14 patients and represents more than 1,200 admissions per year. The Transplant Medicine service cares for patients with solid organ transplants hospitalized for any reason, and also provides consultations for solid organ transplant patients throughout the hospital. The Consultative Nephrology service provides consultations to all other services in the hospitals, approximately 100 per month. The inpatient acute dialysis center performs approximately 4,000 hemodialysis and 150 continuous arteriovenous hemodialysis treatments per year. The OSU East Nephrology program provides general Nephrology consultations to the patients of this urban community hospital.  The OSU Interventional Nephrology program is located at OSU East.