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.
Fact Sheet on Health Plans & Tips to Save Money on Dialysis Health Care
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If you have kidney disease, you may worry about how you will pay for dialysis.
Published on 10/31/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
STREAM-HD - A Better Name for Transitional Care Dialysis Units?
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Starting dialysis should be about flexibility, gentleness, understanding, and mutual respect. The first few starting weeks of dialysis should be
Published on 10/24/2019 by Dr. John Agar
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Traditional Dialysis vs. Transitional Care for Urgent Starts
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You know nothing about kidney failure or treatment options and there’s no time to prepare or teach you.
Published on 10/03/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
CMS-5527-P: Comments Submitted on the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Model—Hemodialysis
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Six additions to the ETC model would first, materially increase the probability of shifting hemodialysis away from the present institutional in-center model to the lower cost home model
Published on 09/19/2019 by Mel Hodge
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, Making dialysis better,
Medical Education Institute’s Preliminary Comments on the ESRD Treatment Choices Model (CMS-5527-P)
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At MEI, we believe there are five essential ways to rapidly increase the uptake and successful adoption of PD and home HD:
Published on 09/05/2019 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW