Sent to ALL NY State ESRD Administrators, Head Nurses, Dietitians, Social Workers, Patient SMEs and PAC Members with valid e-mail addresses in CROWNWeb.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

 

 Welcome to the January edition of Kidney Chronicles,  our monthly eNewsletter designed to provide helpful articles to ESRD patients as healthcare consumers.

 

Kidney Chronicles, is a two-page, printable PDF in  English or Spanish. In 2015, the Network will be working with provider staff and patients to promote the BEST POSSIBLE vascular access for dialysis. You will be seeing more information on Fistulas/Grafts and AV Catheters in the upcoming months, and if you would like to volunteer to be a patient Subject Matter Expert for vascular access, please let us know by sending an e-mail to info@nw2.esrd.net.  

 (To read this month's newsletter, please click on the photo on the left) 

 

For those facilities that subscribe to printed copies of the Newsletter for your patients, your copies are being mailed.

 

If you would like to have printed copies of Kidney Chronicles mailed directly to your dialysis facility each month, please complete this subscription form.

 

An archive of electronic editions Kidney Chronicles is maintained on our website. 

 

The Network also has many other free educational materials available: Order Form  

 

Providers:  

Please print copies of Kidney Chronicles to distribute to your patients, and encourage them to sign up for an electronic subscription.

 

 

 
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This material was prepared by IPRO End-StageRenal Disease Network of New York, the ESRD Organization for New York State, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. CMS Contract Number: HHSM-500-2013-NW002C