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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COVID-19 Vaccination and Dialysis
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This virus maximally impacts those with pre-existing conditions and “sleepy” immune systems—like patients with diabetes, CKD, dialysis-dependence, transplants, and other immune-sapping conditions such as autoimmune disease and malignancy.

Published on 09/09/2021 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,
New Law to Help Vulnerable Transplant Recipients in 2023
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Many people with kidney failure want a transplant, and a financial assessment is part of the evaluation.

Published on 06/03/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Medicare May Be Better than a Marketplace Health Plan
(2 comments)
The Biden Administration re-opened enrollment from February 15-May 15, 2021. This is a good thing for people who do not have and cannot get health insurance any other way.

Published on 03/18/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
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Saying No to a Kidney Transplant

Published on 12/03/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
The End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model Includes In-center Self Care
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On July 10 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health, which directed the Department of Health & Human Services to develop a reimbursement model to incentivize use of home dialysis and transplant.

Published on 11/12/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,