KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
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Options for Dealing with Failing Home Patients
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So…are there modality and/or service changes that might help to resolve this difficult issue or, at the least, may smooth the path back to facility care, if it becomes clear that home care is no longer feasible.
Published on 08/17/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: What is the best dialysis option for me , Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
When Enough Becomes Enough for Home Dialysis
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how does a caring home team, supportive to the core with their home patients, tell a home patient that enough is enough at home ...
Published on 08/10/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: What is the best dialysis option for me , Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
On My Own…and Loving It
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I’m into week 2 of my first vacation since starting dialysis, and I am happy to report that I am totally relaxed, at peace, and enjoying life
Published on 08/03/2017 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, travel,
Kidney Failure and the Value of Acceptance
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If I could offer one piece of advice to anyone facing my reality, it’s that acceptance with hope allows you to be free.
Published on 07/27/2017 by Tami Ramsey, RN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Self-Cannulation: A Patient Right and CMS Expectation for Interested and Trained Patients
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I hope this blog dispels any concerns that a dialysis clinic might have about a patient’s right to be trained and perform self-cannulation and to provide evidence that CMS does not limit
Published on 07/20/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Infection in Home Haemodialysis – it Can Be Sneaky!
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Infection is the number one enemy of the home dialysis patient! Not obvious infection, like pneumonia, for most can identify chest infections more severe than a common cold, and seek help. No, the infection that can sneak under the guard of home
Published on 07/13/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Views from the Chair: Home HD With No Partner
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I thought it would help to inject some information from the real experts: self-dialyzors. Many are quoted below so you can see their views on the independence, self-esteem, and freedom this option provides.
Published on 07/06/2017 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: What is the best dialysis option for me, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Act Now to Protect Healthcare for Americans with Kidney Disease!
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Major health care reform in the U.S. right now could affect YOU. In fact, the Senate may vote as early as this week on its “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA).
Published on 06/27/2017 by Dr. Teri Browne
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Billing for Home Dialysis Travel and Helping Patients to Plan
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Patients may be concerned about how dialysis while traveling is billed. When home patients (PD or home HD) travel, the home clinic pays for home dialysis supplies and bills Medicare and/or other insurance as if the patient is doing his/her dialysis
Published on 06/22/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, travel,
Bon Voyage!
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Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted how dialysis would change my life, and for the better.
Published on 06/15/2017 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,