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How Are We Doing?

We Need Your Feedback

We are a little over half-way through our contract year so this is a check-in to see how you think we are doing. We are committed to providing patients and dialysis facility staff with the best assistance and learning opportunities possible, so we welcome your comments. Please provide us feedback so we can improve our service to the ESRD community. Thank you!

Community Coalitions

Nursing Home Patient Safety

ESRD NCC Preventing Peritonitis

Use this resource to educate dialysis patients on the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of Peritonitis.

American Kidney Fund (AKF)

Talk to Your Patient Guide: Anemia and Kidney Disease

There is often not enough time in one appointment to cover every topic related to CKD or ESRD in depth. In order to help maximize time and facilitate anemia discussions, AKF launched ACT on Anemia, a patient education campaign designed to increase awareness of anemia as a serious condition associated with kidney disease.

Treatment Choices

Home for the Holidays Campaign

The holidays are a time for people to celebrate and be with family. There are many benefits that patients can experience using a home modality, especially during the holidays! Help improve your patient’s quality of life by promoting the use of home dialysis.

How to Engage Your Patients in Telemedicine

You know that telemedicine is good for your practice because it is an efficient and convenient way to engage with your patients. It can allow you to continue treating and educating those who are unable to come to your clinic. But your patients are the ones who decide whether to start or continue using telemedicine. To earn their support, you must address the many reasons why they may not choose telemedicine. You can do that by providing them with education and by making every telemedicine encounter a good one.

Living Donation Kidney Transplant

Living donation is when a living person donates an organ, or part of an organ, to another person. It is a way to receive a kidney transplant sooner! Living donors don’t need to be related. They can be family members, friends, or strangers. This resource includes links to different websites that will educate patients about the possibilities of living donation. 

How to Talk to Patients About Home Dialysis

The Home Dialysis Central website provides staff with information on, “How To Talk To Patients About Home Dialysis: 4 Steps for Professionals”.

The Kidney

Transplant Hub

This site provides information about multi-listing, high-KDPI and increased risk kidneys, and living donation.



How to Find a

Living Donor

UNOS has created this resource for patients that educates them on how to get support and spread the word about their need and the living donation process. 

Health Equity

In case you missed our recent Advancing Health Equity for Kidney Care webinar, the recording is now available!

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Download the Presentation

Vaccinations

Updated Tool

Pneumococcal Vaccine Timing for Adults

In Case You Missed It

Immunization Newsletter

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Vaccination

Webinar

Behavioral Health

Bulletin Board Kit

Break the Silence Break the Stigma

Depression, anxiety and other mental health issues are common among people living with kidney disease. Mental health stigma is when society places shame on people who live with a mental illness or seek help for emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, or PTSD. Stigma can cause shame and often prevents people from getting the help they need. 

Discussing Depression with Your Care Team

This resource is meant to encourage patients to talk to their health care team and begin conversations around mental health to start breaking the stigma.

Reducing Hospital Admissions, Readmissions, and Outpatient Emergency Visits

Is The Emergency Room Always the Best Choice?

When your patients are feeling sick or have an injury, do they know the best choice for medical care? To help patients make decisions on the right care at the right time, share our Quick Patient Guide: How to Choose Medical Care.

Patient and Family Engagement

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement

Disclaimer | This material was prepared by Qsource, an End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. 22.ESRD.12.145