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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Traveling the U.S. with an RV and Home Hemodialysis
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My name is Terry Clark, and I have Polycystic kidney disease. When my kidneys first failed, I started peritoneal dialysis at home, and during this time my husband and I purchased a motorhome—a used Newmar Dutchstar.
Published on 04/09/2020 by Terry Clark
Tags: Making dialysis better, travel,
An Australian Home Dialyzor Travels to Thailand: Part 2
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First, I checked places I was travelling to for a hospital, then I looked to see if they had a nephrologist. If they did, there was a good chance that there would be dialysis.
Published on 02/01/2018 by Malcolm Macdonald
An Australian Home Dialyzor Travels to Thailand: Part 1
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I could not believe that I could find this at my stage of life. It made me want to live forever.
Published on 01/24/2018 by Malcolm Macdonald
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,
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,