Northwest Kidney Centers Opens New Flagship Seattle Kidney Center

Nonprofit Northwest Kidney Centers, King County’s absolute branch dialysis provider, has opened the Seattle Kidney Center, a advanced analysis and training ability that will bear 30,000 dialysis treatments anniversary year.

The center, at 548 15th Ave. (corner of Cherry Street), will action tours to the accessible at an accessible abode from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009. The accessible abode will aswell affection refreshments and a kidney-healthy affable demonstration.

Free parking for the event, address of the Sabey Corp., is accessible in the Swedish Medical Center/Cherry Hill barn at 511 16th Ave.

The facility, which opened June 1, 2009, includes:

-- 15 association dialysis stations for patients who can sit in a armchair for four hours of analysis three times a week.
-- 15 appropriate affliction stations with a added accelerated akin of casework for patients in ambiguous and brittle action who have to dialyze in a bed.
-- Three abreast apartment so that patients with a catching affliction can get dialysis after traveling to a hospital.
-- Eight stations to accommodate training and ecology for patients who accord themselves dialysis treatments at home.

In befitting with its mission to advance ability for humans who accept branch disease, Northwest Kidney Centers operates one of the country’s better home dialysis programs, with 200 patients giving themselves treatments at home. Seattle Kidney Center includes a peritoneal dialysis training centermost and the new Sam Rubinstein Home Hemodialysis Training Center, which was funded, in part, with a canonizing allowance from Gladys Rubinstein, whose bedmate Sam spent 10 years on home hemodialysis. (Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are two methods to absolve the claret of toxins, abolish balance aqueous and advance hormone antithesis in the anatomy if the kidneys abort to do so. Without dialysis or a branch transplant, a being with branch abortion can break breath alone a amount of days.)

“This architecture brings all of our approved and specialized accommodating casework beneath one roof,” said Northwest Kidney Centers President and Chief Executive Joyce F. Jackson, “and we are accessible from 5:30 a.m. until 1 a.m. six canicule a anniversary to advice patients fit dialysis in with the added priorities of their lives.”

Jackson accustomed the plan of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Washington Rep. Eric Pettigrew to defended federal and accompaniment appropriations to abutment the home dialysis training and bloom affliction plan force training functions in the building.

Northwest Kidney Centers trains acceptance from the University of Washington School of Medicine, UW School of Nursing, and Medic One—as able-bodied as its own employees.

This is the 14th centermost operated by Northwest Kidney Centers in the Puget Sound region. About 75 percent of all dialysis treatments in King and Clallam counties are delivered by the absolute nonprofit, which aswell provides accessible kidney-health apprenticeship and collaborates with UW Medicine on the Kidney Research Institute.

Seattle Kidney Center is one of three dialysis accessories on Seattle’s First Hill. Northwest Kidney Centers aswell operates the Broadway Kidney Center at 700 Broadway and Elliott Bay Kidney Center at 600 Broadway.

Northwest Kidney Centers, accustomed in 1962 as the world’s aboriginal out-of-hospital dialysis facility, is a archetypal for extenuative and comestible the lives of humans with abiding branch disease, absorption on convalescent the above of patients’ lives. A not-for-profit organization, Northwest Kidney Centers provides alone affliction for patients in the Puget Sound region. The alignment is the axial association ability for branch ache prevention, analysis and education. A apple avant-garde in home dialysis, Northwest Kidney Centers is committed to developing avant-garde analysis options and announcement analysis to acquisition the cure for abiding branch disease. Northwest Kidney Centers’ provides appropriate affliction as a association benefit, incurring anniversary contributed costs of added than $2 million. Special affliction includes a chaplaincy program, referrals for belief and booze affliction consultations, and allocation of affliction with auberge services. For added information, go to www.nwkidney.org.