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.
We have a "lifestyle bible" for sale that can help you learn about dialysis options. Help, I Need Dialysis! We also have prepared some slideshows on how to have a good future with kidney disease.
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,
It’s Time to Stop Dialysis Staffing by the Numbers
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People are not numbers on a piece of paper. They are human beings who are looking to us to supply high quality care.
Published on 06/08/2017 by Gale Schulke, RN, CDN
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Vlog Day: A Home HD Treatment Step by Step
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Tami Ramsey, a nurse who does home HD herself, has been kind enough to let us point you to her YouTube video of doing a home HD treatment with NxStage.
Published on 06/01/2017 by Tami Ramsey, RN
Views from the Chair (or Bed): Is Home Dialysis REALLY Better?
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Recently, the question, “Is home dialysis REALLY better than in-center treatment?” was asked on a social media site. The answers warmed my heart!
Published on 05/25/2017 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
Tags: Making dialysis better, What is the best dialysis option for me,
Kidney Patient Education: A Lost Art, or Just Rarely Seen?
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Patient education and teaching is a vital cog in good care...and the word is out that we could do a whole lot better.
Published on 05/18/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Dialysis Supply Companies: You Have ONE Job
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What happened to the Gold Standard for customer service in dialysis?
Published on 05/11/2017 by Gale Schulke, RN, CDN
A Primer on Haemodialysis “Weight”
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What is weight, as it matters to a dialysis patient?
Published on 05/04/2017 by Dr. John Agar
Medicare & Tips to Increase the Use of PD and Home Hemodialysis (HHD)
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There is no need to put a patient with limited insurance on in-center dialysis and wait 3 months for them to get Medicare.
Published on 04/27/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Understanding Concepts in Dialysate Flow
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A recent thread of posts at the Home Dialysis Central FaceBook site contained a couple of erroneous comments that suggested some underlying misconceptions I couldn't resist addressing.
Published on 04/20/2017 by Dr. John Agar