A review of patient-oriented websites from the two largest dialysis companies in the United States promote dialysis as the modality of choice with little mention of other options — including foregoing treatment. “Studies across multiple contexts have shown well-designed material can help patients make higher quality kidney replacement therapy treatment decisions; however, little is
/PRNewswire/ Northwest Kidney Centers, the world s first dialysis organization, is launching a year-long celebration to honor its 60th anniversary. Now the.
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Sandra is a 74-year-old woman from Seattle who has diabetes and kidney failure.
That means sheâs at risk for very bad outcomes if she gets Covid â but she couldnât get a vaccine appointment.
âI am not online, so I wasnât able to go search for different sites around the area that were giving the vaccine,â said Sandra, who asked not to use her last name to protect her privacy. âAnd I donât drive anymore, so it was going to be very difficult just to get to a site.â
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SEATTLE, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Northwest Kidney Centers today will hold a virtual event to mark its one-year anniversary of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Day of Remembrance and Reflection will begin at noon at
www.nwkidney.org/remembrance and will last approximately 30 minutes.
Northwest Kidney Centers has been at the forefront of managing COVID-19 in outpatient dialysis centers. The first two people who were reported to have died from COVID-19 were patients of Northwest Kidney Centers. Since the beginning, Northwest Kidney Centers partnered with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local public health experts to establish national practices for treating dialysis patients, who are particularly vulnerable. March 1 marks the one-year anniversary on this journey and is an important event to honor all those impacted by this pandemic.