Vantive Presents New Data at WCN on How Coordinated Care Ecosystems Can Expand Home-Based Peritoneal Dialysis Access and Improve Patient Outcomes

Nephroprotection and early intervention support more planned dialysis starts, improved patient outcomes and increased use of home therapies, according to new studies. -- Real-world studies also ...
Healio

Persistence, education are keys to growth of home dialysis program

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At our home dialysis clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, working on growth and sustainability of our ...
Healio

Dialysis peer mentorship program feasible, beneficial to patients

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A peer mentorship program for patients on dialysis proved to be feasible and beneficial ...
Star Tribune

Winona hospital’s dialysis program saved with last-minute $3 million gift

Winona Health will no longer have to shutter the hospital chain’s dialysis program thanks to a $3 million gift from donors. Hospital officials announced Friday donors had stepped up to cover the ...
Business Wire

Baxter, NAACP and the Alliance for Home Dialysis Expand Program to Increase Awareness of Kidney Care among African Americans

DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global leader in renal care, along with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Rice dialysis program prioritizes patient relationships for 50 years

When the dialysis program was established in 1966 at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, Minn., it became one of the first such units outside of a metropolitan area in the state. From the beginning, ...
HealthLeaders Media

'My Time to Live': Through Novel Program, Kidney Patients Get Palliative Care, Dialysis 'Til the End

After a decade of living with chronic kidney disease, Vonita McGee knows her body is wearing out. At 63, McGee undergoes dialysis sessions three times each week at a Northwest Kidney Centers site near ...