Long Island Dialysis Access Report 2026

Key findings

In-center units with an evening shift: 18 of 50; Shift starting 5 PM or later: 10 of 23 in Nassau, 8 of 27 in Suffolk
Montauk to the nearest evening shift: 92 min; 62 road miles to Medford, light traffic
Median drive to the nearest unit: 7 min; 112 of 141 town centers are within 10 minutes

Evening chairs are the scarce part. 36% of in-center units report a shift starting at 5 PM or later, the option that can let a patient keep a daytime job. For 51 of the 141 towns, the nearest unit is one of them; in the other 90, an evening slot means traveling beyond the closest unit.
The East End has no evening shift at all. Its 4 units in Hampton Bays, Riverhead and Southampton hold 63 stations, none with an evening shift. For all 8 East End communities in this report, the nearest evening chair is the same unit, DaVita Medford Kidney Center in Medford.
Past Southampton, even a daytime chair is a long drive. The easternmost unit on the South Fork is Hamptons Dialysis Center in Southampton, and the Town of Southold on the North Fork has none. Montauk is 54 minutes from the nearest unit, which works out to about 281 hours a year on the road for three sessions a week (an estimate).
Morning rush hour barely touches local dialysis trips. At a weekday 8 AM departure, the drive to the nearest unit takes a median of zero extra minutes and never more than 4. Distance and shift times decide access, not traffic.
Car-free households mostly live near a unit, but not near an evening one. In the 15 towns where at least 10% of households have no vehicle, the median drive to the nearest unit is 6 minutes. In Cedarhurst, Lawrence and Inwood, where 14.7% to 17.3% of households have no car, the nearest evening shift is 22 to 25 minutes away by car.

Where are Long Island's evening dialysis shifts?

CMS's listing marks whether each unit "has a shift starting at 5:00 P.M. or later." CMS's patient guide to Care Compare on Medicare.gov describes the same field as whether you can receive treatments after 5 pm. On the map below, filled dots are units with that shift and open rings are units without one. Gray dots are the 141 town centers measured in this report, which is why the outline looks like Long Island.

Evening shift (starts 5 PM or later) No evening shift Town center in this report

Units from the CMS Dialysis Facility Listing (released July 15, 2026), placed by street address; town centers as used throughout this report. Drawn to scale in miles. Hover a dot for the unit's name.

The pattern is easy to read. Evening chairs are spread across Nassau and western and central Suffolk, and the easternmost are in Medford and Patchogue. East of there, no unit runs a shift that starts at 5 PM or later.

Nassau and Suffolk side by side

CMS listing	Nassau	Suffolk
Dialysis facilities	24	27
Offering in-center hemodialysis	23	27
With an evening shift	10 (43%)	8 (30%)
Dialysis stations	447	465
Stations per 100,000 residents	32.2	30.4
In-center units with a CMS star rating	20	24
Rated 4 or 5 stars	11	12
Households with no vehicle (ACS)	6.8%	5.1%

Population for the per-100,000 figure is the county total from the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates. CMS's Quality of Patient Care star rating is its summary of the quality of care a unit provides; not every unit has enough data for one.

Why are East End patients so far from an evening chair?

Because none of the East End's 4 units runs a shift that starts at 5 PM or later. They are Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Dialysis Center in Hampton Bays, Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave in Riverhead, DaVita Peconic Bay Dialysis in Riverhead and Hamptons Dialysis Center in Southampton. Riverhead itself has a unit 4 minutes from its center, yet the nearest evening slot is 23 minutes west. Farther out, the daytime trip is already long and the evening one is longer:

From	Nearest unit	Drive	Nearest evening shift
Montauk	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	54 min 57 at 8 AM	92 min 62 mi to Medford
East Hampton	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	33 min 37 at 8 AM	71 min 48.2 mi to Medford
Sag Harbor	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	25 min 23 at 8 AM	63 min 45.6 mi to Medford
Southold	DaVita Peconic Bay Dialysis Riverhead	26 min 25 at 8 AM	52 min 39.1 mi to Medford
Southampton	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	7 min 7 at 8 AM	44 min 35.8 mi to Medford
Hampton Bays	Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Dialysis Center Hampton Bays	4 min 4 at 8 AM	35 min 29.7 mi to Medford
Westhampton	Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave Riverhead	15 min 15 at 8 AM	28 min 22 mi to Medford
Riverhead	Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave Riverhead	4 min 4 at 8 AM	23 min 21.1 mi to Medford

Drive times from Google Maps for each town's center point: light traffic, and a weekday 8 AM estimate. East End here means the hamlets and villages in the Towns of Riverhead, Southold, Southampton and East Hampton.

For a Montauk patient on a daytime slot, the 54-minute drive each way adds up: three sessions a week, two legs each, 52 weeks, comes to roughly 281 hours a year in the car before any traffic. A patient who needs an evening chair to keep working faces about 3.1 hours of round-trip driving on every treatment day, on top of a session that NIDDK puts at about four hours. Montauk and East Hampton sit in Suffolk Transit's East Hampton On-Demand zone, and Southampton and Sag Harbor in its Southampton zone; both zones run daily from 6 AM to 8 PM, which ends before an evening session would.

Which towns are farthest from an evening shift?

The chart pairs each town's nearest unit (open ring) with its nearest evening shift (filled dot). The longer the line, the more an evening schedule costs in travel. 6 towns are more than 30 minutes from an evening chair, and all of them are on the East End.

Nearest unit Nearest evening shift

Town Light-traffic drive, minutes Nearest / evening

Montauk 54 / 92

East Hampton 33 / 71

Sag Harbor 25 / 63

Southold 26 / 52

Southampton 7 / 44

Hampton Bays 4 / 35

Westhampton 15 / 28

Bayville 12 / 27

Inwood 10 / 25

Locust Valley 6 / 24

Mastic Beach 23 / 24

Rocky Point 15 / 24

Drive times from Google Maps, town center to unit, light traffic. Every town is in the full table below.

Outside the East End, the longest evening trips run 22 to 27 minutes, from Bayville, Inwood, Locust Valley, Mastic Beach, Rocky Point, Wading River, Glen Cove, Lawrence, Shoreham and Cedarhurst. Several of these have a daytime unit much closer: Glen Cove's nearest unit is 4 minutes away and Cedarhurst's 4, so for them it is the late shift, not dialysis itself, that is far.

Does morning rush hour slow down dialysis trips?

Not much, for the nearest unit. We compared each town's light-traffic drive with Google's estimate for a Tuesday 8 AM departure. The median difference was zero minutes, and the largest was 4 minutes, from East Hampton. Because the nearest unit is usually a short local drive, a weekday morning adds little to it. The practical takeaway: when a patient keeps missing chair time, look at the pickup schedule and the shift before blaming traffic. Our piece on the 8 a.m. medical rush hour covers why early pickups are tight anyway.

What about households without a car?

NIDDK notes that patients may need to rest after each treatment, and a household without any car depends on someone else for every one of those trips. These are the 15 towns where at least 10% of households have no vehicle, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey:

Town	No car	Nearest unit	Evening shift	Bus stops within 3/4 mi
Hempstead Nassau	23.7%	7 min	7 min	83
Roslyn Nassau	19.4%	4 min	14 min	33
Cedarhurst Nassau	17.3%	4 min	22 min	36
Lawrence Nassau	17.3%	5 min	23 min	26
Inwood Nassau	14.7%	10 min	25 min	6
Riverhead Suffolk	12.2%	4 min	23 min	35
Oyster Bay Nassau	12%	16 min	21 min	0
Westbury Nassau	11.9%	9 min	12 min	31
Bay Shore Suffolk	11.2%	6 min	6 min	37
Central Islip Suffolk	11%	8 min	8 min	33
New Hyde Park Nassau	11%	4 min	4 min	37
Long Beach Nassau	10.6%	9 min	9 min	12
Patchogue Suffolk	10.6%	2 min	2 min	33
Rockville Centre Nassau	10.6%	4 min	8 min	41
Middle Island Suffolk	10.2%	13 min	14 min	10

No car: share of occupied households with no vehicle available, ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates for the matching village or Census place. Bus stops: fixed-route NICE or Suffolk County Transit stops within 3/4 mile of the town center, from the agencies' schedule data.

The town with the highest car-free share, Hempstead village, where 23.7% of households have no vehicle, has a unit with an evening shift 7 minutes from its center. The harder cases are Oyster Bay and Bayville. About 12% and 10% of households there have no car, NICE lists both as areas Able-Ride does not serve, and the nearest NICE stop is 4.7 and 4.6 miles from their centers.

How paratransit fits the dialysis schedule

Paratransit (Able-Ride in Nassau, SCAT in Suffolk) is the public shared-ride service for riders who qualify under the ADA, and its rules decide whether it can reach a unit at all. NICE says Able-Ride serves trips that start and end within 3/4 mile of fixed-route service during that service's hours, and lists Syosset, Bayville, Oyster Bay, Lido Beach, Point Lookout, Locust Valley and Sands Point as not served. Of those, Bayville, Lido Beach, Locust Valley, Oyster Bay and Syosset are in this report, and the nearest dialysis unit from them is 6 to 16 minutes away by car. In Suffolk, SCAT runs Monday to Saturday from 5 AM to 10 PM and Sunday from 6 AM to 8 PM, but its earliest and latest service only reaches addresses within 3/4 mile of a Suffolk County Transit route that is running at the time. A four-hour session that starts at 5 PM ends around 9 PM, close to the end of SCAT's day. If you rely on paratransit, ask the agency whether the return from an evening chair is possible before you take the slot. Our guides to Access-A-Ride and Able-Ride in Nassau and to getting around Long Island without a car go further.

What this means if you or a parent needs dialysis

Ask about evening chairs early. The CMS listing tells you whether a unit runs an evening shift, not whether it has an open chair. If keeping a job depends on it, ask the nephrologist's office and the unit's social worker which nearby units have evening openings.
Count the drive when you compare units. Ten minutes closer each way saves an hour a week on a three-session schedule. The town table below shows the nearest unit and the nearest evening unit for every town.
With Medicaid, start at the dialysis center. Medical Answering Services (MAS) arranges New York Medicaid rides, and authorized trips cost the member nothing. For a three-times-a-week schedule, the dialysis center or doctor's office requests a standing order through the MAS portal; members cannot enter their own. It lasts up to six months and the office renews it. You can ask MAS for DachiPlus by name: MAS sets the type of transportation first, then considers your choice. For a single trip, call MAS at 1-844-666-6270 at least three days ahead.
Paying privately. Fares are priced by distance from our published rates; check your route in the fare estimator before you book.

DachiPlus drives ambulatory riders and wheelchair users who can transfer to a seat; for riders who need to stay in their wheelchair, we arrange the trip through licensed wheelchair-van partners. See our dialysis transportation service, the guide to dialysis rides on Long Island, and unit pages such as DaVita Waldbaum in Great Neck and the Hampton Bays regional unit.

Town-by-town results

Every town in the report, with drive times to the nearest unit and the nearest evening shift, the share of households without a car and of residents 65 and older, and fixed-route bus access. Each town name links to its dialysis page with the full trip table. The CSV has the same towns with public columns and straight-line distances.

Download the town table (CSV, 141 towns)

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Town	Nearest unit	Drive (8 AM)	Nearest evening shift	No car	Age 65+	Bus stops ≤ 3/4 mi
Albertson Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	6 min (6)	9 min Mineola	5.8%	22.8%	31
Amityville Suffolk	DaVita Long Island Renal Care Amityville · evening shift	7 min (7)	7 min Amityville	6.4%	29.8%	29
Atlantic Beach Nassau	Woodmere Dialysis LLC Woodmere	11 min (11)	21 min Oceanside	4%	38.1%	18
Babylon Suffolk	Cassena Kidney Care at East Neck West Babylon	5 min (5)	11 min Bay Shore	3.4%	20.1%	23
Baldwin Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital Oceanside	3 min (3)	8 min Oceanside	5.5%	17.4%	33
Bay Shore Suffolk	Fresenius Kidney Care - Bay Shore Bay Shore · evening shift	6 min (6)	6 min Bay Shore	11.2%	12.7%	37
Bayport Suffolk	Long Island Community Hospital - West Main St Patchogue · evening shift	9 min (9)	9 min Patchogue	4.2%	19.5%	5
Bayville Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	12 min (12)	27 min Hicksville	9.6%	23%	0
Bellmore Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care Bellmore Bellmore · evening shift	5 min (5)	5 min Bellmore	4.7%	15.2%	19
Bellport Suffolk	DaVita East Patchogue Dialysis Patchogue	7 min (7)	13 min Patchogue	6%	32.3%	6
Bethpage Nassau	NYU Winthrop Hospital Dialysis Bethpage Bethpage · evening shift	7 min (7)	7 min Bethpage	6.8%	24.5%	1
Bohemia Suffolk	DaVita East Islip Dialysis East Islip	8 min (9)	12 min Patchogue	3.2%	17.5%	0
Brentwood Suffolk	FMC Hauppauge Dialysis Center Hauppauge · evening shift	9 min (10)	9 min Hauppauge	n/a	n/a	38
Brookville Nassau	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	11 min (11)	12 min Hicksville	1.7%	10.3%	0
Carle Place Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	7 min (7)	8 min Mineola	4.9%	18.6%	29
Cedarhurst Nassau	Woodmere Dialysis LLC Woodmere	4 min (5)	22 min Oceanside	17.3%	15.6%	36
Centereach Suffolk	FMC Coram Dialysis Center Centereach	6 min (5)	10 min East Setauket	3.5%	14.9%	13
Central Islip Suffolk	FMC Hauppauge Dialysis Center Hauppauge · evening shift	8 min (8)	8 min Hauppauge	11%	11.5%	33
Cold Spring Harbor Suffolk	Huntington Hospital Huntington	8 min (8)	12 min Huntington Station	5.7%	14%	0
Commack Suffolk	Fresenius Kidney Care - Commack Commack · evening shift	3 min (3)	3 min Commack	3.3%	16.9%	15
Copiague Suffolk	DaVita Long Island Renal Care Amityville · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min Amityville	4.1%	12.1%	15
Coram Suffolk	DaVita Selden Dialysis Selden	5 min (5)	9 min Medford	4.8%	18.1%	17
Deer Park Suffolk	FMC Deer Park Dialysis North Babylon	5 min (5)	13 min Bay Shore	4.9%	14.5%	32
Dix Hills Suffolk	Island Rehabilitative Services - Commack Dialysis Commack	11 min (12)	13 min Commack	1.7%	20.3%	2
East Hampton Suffolk	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	33 min (37)	71 min Medford	9.1%	35.9%	1*
East Hills Nassau	DaVita Port Washington Dialysis Center Port Washington	9 min (10)	13 min Mineola	1.8%	15.7%	18
East Islip Suffolk	DaVita East Islip Dialysis East Islip	4 min (4)	10 min Bay Shore	4.3%	20.4%	20
East Massapequa Nassau	DaVita Long Island Renal Care Amityville · evening shift	11 min (11)	11 min Amityville	4%	22.9%	8
East Meadow Nassau	Nassau University Medical Center Uniondale · evening shift	7 min (7)	7 min Uniondale	6.8%	21.8%	22
East Northport Suffolk	Fresenius Kidney Care - Commack Commack · evening shift	9 min (9)	9 min Commack	2.6%	17.9%	7
East Rockaway Nassau	DaVita Lynbrook Dialysis Center Lynbrook	6 min (6)	10 min Oceanside	4.6%	17.1%	0
East Setauket Suffolk	DCI - Stony Brook Kidney Center East Setauket · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min East Setauket	4.5%	19.4%	0
East Williston Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	2 min (2)	5 min Mineola	2%	21.1%	37
Elmont Nassau	Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave New Hyde Park · evening shift	13 min (14)	13 min New Hyde Park	9.8%	16.2%	26
Farmingdale Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	7 min (8)	10 min Amityville	9.9%	21%	14
Farmingville Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	4 min (3)	4 min Medford	5.9%	11.5%	8
Floral Park Nassau	Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave New Hyde Park · evening shift	10 min (10)	10 min New Hyde Park	6%	19.9%	13
Fort Salonga Suffolk	Fresenius Kidney Care - Commack Commack · evening shift	12 min (12)	12 min Commack	2.1%	20%	0
Franklin Square Nassau	Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave New Hyde Park · evening shift	10 min (11)	10 min New Hyde Park	4.8%	17.5%	32
Freeport Nassau	Main Street Dialysis Center, LLC Freeport	1 min (1)	9 min Bellmore	9.2%	15.1%	34
Garden City Nassau	NYU Winthrop Hospital Dialysis Mineola Mineola · evening shift	3 min (3)	3 min Mineola	4.3%	17.4%	25
Glen Cove Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	4 min (5)	23 min Great Neck	9.7%	22.8%	18
Glen Head Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	10 min (11)	19 min Great Neck	1.5%	19.7%	12
Great Neck Nassau	DaVita Julia and Israel Waldbaum Dialysis Great Neck · evening shift	9 min (10)	9 min Great Neck	6.7%	21.1%	44
Greenlawn Suffolk	Cassena Kidney Care at Carillon Huntington	5 min (6)	7 min Huntington Station	6%	16.5%	0
Hampton Bays Suffolk	Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Dialysis Center Hampton Bays	4 min (4)	35 min Medford	4.1%	22%	2
Hauppauge Suffolk	FMC Hauppauge Dialysis Center Hauppauge · evening shift	6 min (7)	6 min Hauppauge	2.1%	18.9%	15
Hempstead Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Hempstead Hempstead · evening shift	7 min (7)	7 min Hempstead	23.7%	13.2%	83
Hewlett Nassau	DaVita Lynbrook Dialysis Center Lynbrook	4 min (5)	14 min Hempstead	1.1%	17.4%	54
Hicksville Nassau	DaVita Oyster Bay Dialysis Hicksville · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min Hicksville	4.3%	18.6%	50
Holbrook Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	11 min (11)	11 min Medford	3.8%	17.1%	8
Holtsville Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min Medford	2.4%	14.4%	12
Huntington Suffolk	Huntington Hospital Huntington	5 min (5)	6 min Huntington Station	2.5%	24.2%	11
Huntington Station Suffolk	DaVita Huntington On Broadway Dialysis Huntington Station · evening shift	2 min (2)	2 min Huntington Station	7.3%	18.9%	12
Inwood Nassau	Woodmere Dialysis LLC Woodmere	10 min (11)	25 min Hempstead	14.7%	10.7%	6
Island Park Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Outpatient Dialysis Center Oceanside · evening shift	6 min (6)	6 min Oceanside	4.4%	18.1%	12
Islandia Suffolk	FMC Hauppauge Dialysis Center Hauppauge · evening shift	8 min (10)	8 min Hauppauge	5.6%	17.3%	22
Islip Suffolk	DaVita East Islip Dialysis East Islip	5 min (5)	8 min Bay Shore	6.5%	19.1%	13
Jericho Nassau	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	7 min (8)	8 min Hicksville	7.1%	20.2%	5
Kings Park Suffolk	St. Catherine of Siena Hospital Smithtown	8 min (8)	10 min Commack	6.6%	24.5%	8
Lake Grove Suffolk	FMC Coram Dialysis Center Centereach	9 min (8)	11 min East Setauket	6.3%	17.6%	18
Lake Ronkonkoma Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	8 min (8)	8 min Medford	3.5%	18.5%	18
Lake Success Nassau	DaVita Julia and Israel Waldbaum Dialysis Great Neck · evening shift	6 min (7)	6 min Great Neck	2.3%	21.7%	8
Lawrence Nassau	Woodmere Dialysis LLC Woodmere	5 min (6)	23 min Oceanside	17.3%	20.7%	26
Levittown Nassau	FMC - Freedom Center of Syosset LLC Hicksville	6 min (6)	7 min Bethpage	3.3%	17.2%	16
Lido Beach Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Outpatient Dialysis Center Oceanside · evening shift	14 min (13)	14 min Oceanside	3.6%	32.3%	0
Lindenhurst Suffolk	Fresenius Kidney Care Lindenhurst Lindenhurst	3 min (3)	9 min Amityville	4.2%	14.4%	9
Locust Valley Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	6 min (7)	24 min Hicksville	1%	17.7%	0
Long Beach Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Outpatient Dialysis Center Oceanside · evening shift	9 min (8)	9 min Oceanside	10.6%	21.8%	12
Lynbrook Nassau	DaVita Lynbrook Dialysis Center Lynbrook	3 min (4)	11 min Hempstead	8.7%	19.2%	27
Malverne Nassau	Atlantic DMS - West Nassau Rockaway Ave Valley Stream	7 min (7)	7 min Hempstead	1.8%	23.2%	29
Manhasset Nassau	DaVita Julia and Israel Waldbaum Dialysis Great Neck · evening shift	5 min (5)	5 min Great Neck	5.8%	16%	13
Massapequa Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	7 min (7)	9 min Bellmore	2.7%	18.1%	33
Massapequa Park Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	8 min (8)	10 min Amityville	3.6%	20.1%	13
Mastic Suffolk	DaVita East Patchogue Dialysis Patchogue	19 min (19)	20 min Patchogue	2.4%	10.6%	10
Mastic Beach Suffolk	DaVita East Patchogue Dialysis Patchogue	23 min (23)	24 min Patchogue	4.6%	10.6%	12
Medford Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	3 min (3)	3 min Medford	3.3%	16.7%	9
Melville Suffolk	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	8 min (9)	16 min Huntington Station	6.4%	28.8%	10
Merrick Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care Bellmore Bellmore · evening shift	5 min (5)	5 min Bellmore	2.1%	18.4%	18
Middle Island Suffolk	DaVita Selden Dialysis Selden	13 min (13)	14 min Medford	10.2%	23.3%	10
Miller Place Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	9 min (10)	18 min East Setauket	1.1%	19.3%	0
Mineola Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	1 min (1)	5 min Mineola	7%	16.2%	39
Montauk Suffolk	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	54 min (57)	92 min Medford	4.6%	20%	0*
Mount Sinai Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	6 min (6)	15 min East Setauket	3%	26.4%	0
Nesconset Suffolk	DaVita Smithtown Dialysis Smithtown	3 min (3)	13 min East Setauket	3%	13.1%	15
New Hyde Park Nassau	Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave New Hyde Park · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min New Hyde Park	11%	19.2%	37
North Babylon Suffolk	FMC Deer Park Dialysis North Babylon	9 min (8)	9 min Bay Shore	4.2%	17.2%	8
North Bellmore Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care Bellmore Bellmore · evening shift	7 min (7)	7 min Bellmore	2%	16.6%	22
North Massapequa Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	2 min (2)	7 min Amityville	2.6%	18.3%	6
North Merrick Nassau	Nassau University Medical Center Uniondale · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min Uniondale	3.1%	20.2%	17
North New Hyde Park Nassau	Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave New Hyde Park · evening shift	2 min (2)	2 min New Hyde Park	2.6%	20.9%	29
North Valley Stream Nassau	Atlantic DMS - West Nassau Rockaway Ave Valley Stream	7 min (7)	8 min Hempstead	6.4%	18.6%	21
Northport Suffolk	Huntington Hospital Huntington	12 min (13)	15 min Huntington Station	5%	27.1%	6
Oakdale Suffolk	DaVita East Islip Dialysis East Islip	8 min (7)	12 min Patchogue	3.7%	23%	4
Oceanside Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Outpatient Dialysis Center Oceanside · evening shift	5 min (5)	5 min Oceanside	3.1%	22.4%	14
Old Bethpage Nassau	NYU Winthrop Hospital Dialysis Bethpage Bethpage · evening shift	10 min (11)	10 min Bethpage	3.2%	24.5%	0
Old Westbury Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	11 min (11)	14 min Great Neck	0%	14.7%	0
Oyster Bay Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	16 min (16)	21 min Hicksville	12%	19.4%	0
Patchogue Suffolk	Long Island Community Hospital - West Main St Patchogue · evening shift	2 min (2)	2 min Patchogue	10.6%	14%	33
Plainedge Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	6 min (6)	6 min Bethpage	6%	17%	24
Plainview Nassau	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	7 min (7)	9 min Hicksville	5.9%	22.9%	25
Port Jefferson Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	8 min (8)	12 min East Setauket	4.1%	23.5%	16
Port Jefferson Station Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	7 min (7)	8 min East Setauket	7.6%	12.1%	7
Port Washington Nassau	DaVita Port Washington Dialysis Center Port Washington	11 min (11)	12 min Great Neck	6.4%	20.5%	19
Ridge Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	15 min (15)	15 min Medford	5.2%	34.5%	8
Riverhead Suffolk	Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave Riverhead	4 min (4)	23 min Medford	12.2%	23.9%	35
Rockville Centre Nassau	Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital Oceanside	4 min (4)	8 min Hempstead	10.6%	20.1%	41
Rocky Point Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	15 min (15)	24 min East Setauket	4.3%	13.2%	8
Ronkonkoma Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	9 min (9)	9 min Medford	8%	13.7%	8
Roosevelt Nassau	Main Street Dialysis Center, LLC Freeport	6 min (6)	7 min Uniondale	6.3%	10.4%	21
Roslyn Nassau	DaVita Port Washington Dialysis Center Port Washington	4 min (4)	14 min Great Neck	19.4%	47%	33
Roslyn Heights Nassau	DaVita Port Washington Dialysis Center Port Washington	8 min (8)	8 min Great Neck	6.6%	17.5%	31
Sag Harbor Suffolk	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	25 min (23)	63 min Medford	3.4%	34.7%	4*
Saint James Suffolk	DaVita Smithtown Dialysis Smithtown	8 min (8)	14 min East Setauket	4.7%	22.5%	0
Sayville Suffolk	Long Island Community Hospital - West Main St Patchogue · evening shift	12 min (12)	12 min Patchogue	6.3%	21.6%	8
Sea Cliff Nassau	Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC Glen Cove	9 min (9)	20 min Great Neck	2.1%	18.9%	26
Seaford Nassau	Davita Massapequa Dialysis Massapequa	7 min (7)	9 min Bellmore	1.4%	17.3%	19
Selden Suffolk	DaVita Selden Dialysis Selden	1 min (1)	8 min Medford	3.6%	16.4%	19
Setauket Suffolk	DCI - Stony Brook Kidney Center East Setauket · evening shift	8 min (8)	8 min East Setauket	0.8%	22%	12
Shirley Suffolk	DaVita East Patchogue Dialysis Patchogue	15 min (15)	16 min Medford	4%	12.9%	10
Shoreham Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	17 min (17)	23 min Medford	5.5%	20.7%	4
Smithtown Suffolk	St. Catherine of Siena Hospital Smithtown	5 min (5)	12 min Commack	5.8%	19%	21
Sound Beach Suffolk	FMS-Central Suffolk AKC Port Jefferson Station	11 min (11)	19 min East Setauket	0.6%	11.7%	0
Southampton Suffolk	Hamptons Dialysis Center Southampton	7 min (7)	44 min Medford	3%	27.9%	8*
Southold Suffolk	DaVita Peconic Bay Dialysis Riverhead	26 min (25)	52 min Medford	5.5%	24.8%	6
Stony Brook Suffolk	DCI - Stony Brook Kidney Center East Setauket · evening shift	11 min (10)	11 min East Setauket	4.9%	22.3%	0
Syosset Nassau	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	7 min (7)	14 min Hicksville	1.2%	15%	0
Uniondale Nassau	Nassau University Medical Center Uniondale · evening shift	4 min (4)	4 min Uniondale	8.9%	17.2%	53
Valley Stream Nassau	Atlantic DMS - West Nassau Rockaway Ave Valley Stream	4 min (4)	12 min Hempstead	5.6%	17.1%	59
Wading River Suffolk	Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave Riverhead	16 min (16)	24 min Medford	0.7%	20.9%	10
Wantagh Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care Bellmore Bellmore · evening shift	6 min (6)	6 min Bellmore	2.8%	15.9%	2
West Babylon Suffolk	Cassena Kidney Care at East Neck West Babylon	7 min (6)	7 min Bay Shore	4.9%	16.5%	16
West Hempstead Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Hempstead Hempstead · evening shift	6 min (6)	6 min Hempstead	6.3%	16.4%	29
West Islip Suffolk	FMC Deer Park Dialysis North Babylon	7 min (7)	9 min Bay Shore	1.9%	13.9%	6
Westbury Nassau	DaVita Garden City Dialysis Center Garden City	9 min (9)	12 min Mineola	11.9%	18.8%	31
Westhampton Suffolk	Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave Riverhead	15 min (15)	28 min Medford	3.9%	33%	0
Williston Park Nassau	Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola Mineola	3 min (4)	6 min Mineola	3.2%	15.2%	42
Woodbury Nassau	DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis Woodbury	6 min (7)	11 min Huntington Station	6.2%	11.6%	4
Woodmere Nassau	Woodmere Dialysis LLC Woodmere	2 min (2)	19 min Oceanside	5.1%	15.8%	42
Wyandanch Suffolk	FMC Deer Park Dialysis North Babylon	8 min (8)	14 min Bay Shore	n/a	n/a	30
Yaphank Suffolk	DaVita Medford Kidney Center Medford · evening shift	8 min (7)	8 min Medford	7.4%	15.6%	0

Drive times from Google Maps for the center of each town: light traffic, with the weekday 8 AM estimate in brackets. * Inside a Suffolk Transit On-Demand zone (daily 6 AM to 8 PM), where On-Demand buses pick up without fixed stops, so the count understates bus service. n/a: the Census release used here does not include that place.

Show all 51 dialysis facilities in the CMS listing

Facility	Community	Stations	Evening shift	CMS stars
Fresenius Kidney Care Bellmore	Bellmore · Nassau	20	Yes	5
NYU Winthrop Hospital Dialysis Bethpage	Bethpage · Nassau	12	Yes	4
DaVita Floral Park Home Dialysis (PD) (no in-center hemodialysis)	Floral Park · Nassau	1	No	5
DaVita Freeport Kidney Center	Freeport · Nassau	21	No	3
Main Street Dialysis Center, LLC	Freeport · Nassau	24	No	1
DaVita Garden City Dialysis Center	Garden City · Nassau	31	No	3
Glengariff Dialysis Center, LLC	Glen Cove · Nassau	6	No	Not rated
DaVita Julia and Israel Waldbaum Dialysis	Great Neck · Nassau	34	Yes	5
Fresenius Kidney Care - Hempstead	Hempstead · Nassau	20	Yes	5
DaVita Oyster Bay Dialysis	Hicksville · Nassau	25	Yes	4
FMC - Freedom Center of Syosset LLC	Hicksville · Nassau	14	No	5
DaVita Lynbrook Dialysis Center	Lynbrook · Nassau	18	No	3
Davita Massapequa Dialysis	Massapequa · Nassau	17	No	4
Fresenius Kidney Care - Mineola	Mineola · Nassau	20	No	3
NYU Winthrop Hospital Dialysis Mineola	Mineola · Nassau	31	Yes	3
Atlantic DMS - New Hyde Park Hillside Ave	New Hyde Park · Nassau	24	Yes	5
LIJ Medical Center	New Hyde Park · Nassau	6	Yes	Not rated
Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital	Oceanside · Nassau	3	No	Not rated
Mount Sinai South Nassau Outpatient Dialysis Center	Oceanside · Nassau	18	Yes	5
DaVita Port Washington Dialysis Center	Port Washington · Nassau	18	No	5
Nassau University Medical Center	Uniondale · Nassau	29	Yes	3
Atlantic DMS - West Nassau Rockaway Ave	Valley Stream · Nassau	24	No	3
DaVita Crossways Park Dialysis	Woodbury · Nassau	17	No	5
Woodmere Dialysis LLC	Woodmere · Nassau	14	No	3
DaVita Long Island Renal Care	Amityville · Suffolk	24	Yes	5
Fresenius Kidney Care - Bay Shore	Bay Shore · Suffolk	25	Yes	4
FMC Coram Dialysis Center	Centereach · Suffolk	16	No	4
Fresenius Kidney Care - Commack	Commack · Suffolk	16	Yes	Not rated
Island Rehabilitative Services - Commack Dialysis	Commack · Suffolk	12	No	2
DaVita Grand Boulevard Dialysis	Deer Park · Suffolk	20	No	4
DaVita East Islip Dialysis	East Islip · Suffolk	21	No	3
DCI - Stony Brook Kidney Center	East Setauket · Suffolk	26	Yes	3
Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Regional Dialysis Center	Hampton Bays · Suffolk	17	No	3
FMC Hauppauge Dialysis Center	Hauppauge · Suffolk	16	Yes	3
Cassena Kidney Care at Carillon	Huntington · Suffolk	8	No	Not rated
Huntington Hospital	Huntington · Suffolk	7	No	3
DaVita Huntington On Broadway Dialysis	Huntington Station · Suffolk	18	Yes	5
FMC Huntington Station Dialysis Center	Huntington Station · Suffolk	26	No	5
Fresenius Kidney Care Lindenhurst	Lindenhurst · Suffolk	18	No	4
DaVita Medford Kidney Center	Medford · Suffolk	10	Yes	4
FMC Deer Park Dialysis	North Babylon · Suffolk	15	No	5
DaVita East Patchogue Dialysis	Patchogue · Suffolk	13	No	5
Long Island Community Hospital - West Main St	Patchogue · Suffolk	24	Yes	2
FMS-Central Suffolk AKC	Port Jefferson Station · Suffolk	24	No	5
Atlantic DMS - East End Harrison Ave	Riverhead · Suffolk	24	No	3
DaVita Peconic Bay Dialysis	Riverhead · Suffolk	13	No	3
DaVita Selden Dialysis	Selden · Suffolk	13	No	5
DaVita Smithtown Dialysis	Smithtown · Suffolk	21	No	3
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital	Smithtown · Suffolk	18	No	2
Hamptons Dialysis Center	Southampton · Suffolk	9	No	Not rated
Cassena Kidney Care at East Neck	West Babylon · Suffolk	11	No	1

Names, stations, evening shift and Quality of Patient Care star rating as CMS lists them (names written in capitals are shown in title case). Released July 15, 2026.

Methodology

Dialysis units. Every facility in Nassau and Suffolk Counties in CMS's Dialysis Facility, Listing by Facility (data.cms.gov dataset 23ew-n7w9, released July 15, 2026). We use CMS's own fields: number of stations, whether the unit offers in-center hemodialysis, the late-shift flag, which CMS's data dictionary defines as a shift starting at 5:00 P.M. or later, and the Quality of Patient Care star rating. DaVita Floral Park Home Dialysis (PD) offers peritoneal (home) dialysis and no in-center hemodialysis, so the drive-time figures use the other 50 units. Each unit is placed by geocoding its CMS street address.

Towns. The 141 Nassau and Suffolk communities in our service area, each measured from one center point, the same point used on our town pages.

Drive times. Google Maps Distance Matrix, from each town center to its three nearest in-center units and two nearest evening-shift units by straight line, plus any unit our town pages already have a drive time for. "Light traffic" is Google's drive time with no departure time set; "8 AM" is Google's typical-traffic estimate for a Tuesday 8:00 AM departure. Times were fetched in October 2026. The nearest unit is the one with the shortest light-traffic drive. The annual-hours estimate multiplies that drive by six legs a week and 52 weeks.

Census. American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (tables B25044, B01001 and B18101) for the village or Census place matching each town, or its ZIP code where no place matches, read through Census Reporter.

Bus and paratransit. Straight-line distance from each town center to the nearest fixed-route stop, and the number of stops within 3/4 mile, from the NICE and Suffolk County Transit GTFS schedule feeds (fetched October 7, 2026). Paratransit rules come from NICE's Able-Ride page and Suffolk County Transit's SCAT and On-Demand pages.

East End. Hamlets and villages in the Towns of Riverhead, Southold, Southampton and East Hampton. Shelter Island is not one of the towns in this report.

The numbers on this page and in the CSV are computed by a script, so they can be rebuilt when CMS publishes a new release (CMS lists its next update for October 28, 2026). No DachiPlus trip, rider or company data is used.

Limitations

A town center is not your front door. Large hamlets can be several miles across, so check your own address.
Google's times are typical estimates. Weather, crashes and seasonal traffic change any given day.
CMS reports whether a unit runs an evening shift, not whether a chair is open, and units can change schedules between CMS releases.
A few units are small hospital units: LIJ Medical Center (6 stations), Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital (3 stations) and Huntington Hospital (7 stations). They are counted as CMS lists them; call before counting on one.
Facilities that are not registered with Medicare are not in the CMS listing.
ACS figures are survey estimates with margins of error, which are widest for small villages. The Census Reporter release used here returns no figures for the Brentwood and Wyandanch Census places, so their census columns are blank.
Bus stop counts cover fixed routes only. Suffolk Transit's On-Demand buses in the South Fork zones pick up without fixed stops, so the stop counts for Montauk, East Hampton, Southampton and Sag Harbor understate the bus service there.

How to cite this report

DachiPlus. "Long Island Dialysis Access Report." October 2026. https://dachiplus.com/resources/long-island-dialysis-access-report/. Data: CMS Dialysis Facility Listing (released July 15, 2026), Google Maps drive times, U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020-2024.

Journalists, researchers and community groups are welcome to use the figures and the CSV with credit and a link to this page. For questions about the data, contact us.

Frequently asked questions

How many dialysis centers are there on Long Island?

Medicare's dialysis facility listing (CMS, released July 15, 2026) has 51 dialysis facilities in Nassau and Suffolk Counties: 24 in Nassau and 27 in Suffolk, with 912 dialysis stations between them. 50 offer in-center hemodialysis; one, DaVita Floral Park Home Dialysis (PD) in Floral Park, offers peritoneal (home) dialysis and no in-center hemodialysis.

Which Long Island dialysis centers have an evening shift?

18 of the 50 in-center units tell Medicare they run a shift starting at 5 PM or later. In Nassau (10 units): Bellmore, Bethpage, Great Neck, Hempstead, Hicksville, Mineola, New Hyde Park (2), Oceanside and Uniondale. In Suffolk (8 units): Amityville, Bay Shore, Commack, East Setauket, Hauppauge, Huntington Station, Medford and Patchogue. None of the 4 East End units, in Hampton Bays, Riverhead and Southampton, has one. An evening shift on the listing does not mean a chair is open, so ask the unit.

Is there a dialysis center in Montauk or on the North Fork?

There is none in Montauk and none in the Town of Southold on the North Fork. The easternmost units are Hamptons Dialysis Center in Southampton on the South Fork and the two Riverhead units at the base of the North Fork. From the center of Montauk the nearest unit is 54 minutes away in light traffic (57 at 8 AM on a weekday), and the nearest evening shift is 92 minutes away in Medford.

Does Medicaid pay for rides to dialysis on Long Island?

Yes, when the trip is authorized. Medical Answering Services (MAS) arranges New York Medicaid rides, and authorized trips cost the member nothing; the Downstate contact center for Nassau and Suffolk is 1-844-666-6270. For dialysis three times a week, the dialysis center or doctor's office requests a standing order through the MAS portal (members cannot enter their own); it lasts up to six months and the office renews it. You can ask MAS for a provider such as DachiPlus by name: MAS sets the type of transportation first, then considers your choice.

Can I use or republish the data in this report?

Yes. The town-level table is a free CSV download on this page. Please credit "DachiPlus, Long Island Dialysis Access Report (October 2026)" and link to the report. The CSV holds public figures and straight-line distances; the drive times come from Google Maps and appear on this page only.

Sources

Need a ride to dialysis on Long Island?

DachiPlus serves Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Medicaid patients: ask your dialysis center to request a standing order through MAS with DachiPlus as your preferred transportation provider, or call MAS at 1-844-666-6270 at least three days before a single appointment and ask for DachiPlus.
Private pay: call DachiPlus at (516) 754-7777 or check the fare estimator.

Long Island Dialysis Access Report: how far every town is from a dialysis chair