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

 Please share the February edition of Kidney Chronicles, our monthly eNewsletter designed to provide helpful articles to ESRD patients as healthcare consumers. (Click on the picture to see the full newsletter)
 

 Understanding Dialysis Facility Compare

Part of the work that the Network does is sending out information Dialysis Facility Compare, an online database of information about dialysis facilities in the United States.  The February edition of Kidney Chronicles has an article on Dialysis Facility Compare, along with information on understanding quality measures. It is important that we all understand quality measures, and are able to discuss them.  This effort is more than just dialysis facilities, CMS publishes Hospital Compare, Nursing Home Compare and Physician Compare.

 

Kidney Chronicles, is a two-page, printable PDF in English and Spanish.  

  

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.

 

 
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