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

Are Your Patients Prepared for Hurricane Season?

Does your facility have PAC Representatives?

 

June NewsletterPlease share the June edition of Kidney Chronicles, our  eNewsletter designed to provide helpful articles to ESRD patients as healthcare consumers. (Click on the picture to see the full news letter)   
 

Hurricane Preparedness
This month's newsletter has some talking points on preparedness for dialysis patients.  It's a good time to review contact information, update dialysis prescriptions and make sure that patients have a plan in the case of an emergency.
 
Join the Patient Advisory Committee (PAC)
Our Patient Representatives keep our community engaged, empowered, and resilient! Encourage your patients to become PAC Representatives, and they can help others live their lives to the fullest while being treated for ESRD. 
  
For more information on the PAC (including registration/update forms) please see our PAC website.
  

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