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.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Northwest Kidney Centers Names New Trustees for 2009-2010
Northwest Kidney Centers has appointed a slate of new admiral and associates of its Board of Trustees to advance the nonprofit dialysis and branch bloom affliction provider for 2009-2010.
Steve Huebner, a accomplice at KPMG in Seattle and a citizen of Bellevue, was adopted as Chairman. Others admiral cover Vice Chairman David Wilde, a CPA who lives and works in Auburn, and Secretary/Treasurer Craig Goodrich, who works in accounts at Virginia Mason in Seattle and lives in Kent. This year, three new associates accompany the board. They cover Bellevue association Gary R. Houlahan, who works at Mutual Materials, and retired Boeing controlling Clint Randolph, and Seattle citizen Dr. Lisa Florence, a vascular acceptance surgeon.
John S. Capps, Deborah Crabbe, Joe Eschbach, Betty Halvorson, Dr. Robert Jaffe, Dr. Michael R. Kelly, James Manning, Dr. Vilma Quijada, Dr. Michael Ryan, Dr. Stuart Shankland, David Wilde, and Dr. Bessie Young abide to serve on the board.
The Northwest Kidney Centers Board of Trustees includes assembly from the medical and business community, as able-bodied as borough leaders, all who serve one- to three-year agreement of office.
Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation, which oversees fundraising for the nonprofit organization, has aswell called new admiral for 2009-2010. They cover President Clint Randolph, Vice President Dr. Cyrus Cryst, Treasurer Gary R. Houlahan, and Secretary Katheryn Cole. Rich Bloch joins as a new trustee. Other associates cover Bert Lundh, Wanda Wong, Deborah Crabbe, Dr. Robert Hegstrom, Dr. Michael Kelly, Thomas E. Melang, Dr. Rex Ochi, William Peckham, Doug Seto, Nancy Spaeth, and Luth Tenorio.
The nonprofit Northwest Kidney Centers provides 80 percent of the dialysis affliction in King and Clallam counties, educates the accessible about branch health, and collaborates with the University of Washington School of Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute. Northwest Kidney Centers’ agents of 550 delivers added than 200,000 treatments a year in 14 dialysis centers and 11 hospitals. It aswell maintains one of the country’s better training and abutment programs for humans who ambition to accord themselves dialysis at home. Since 1962, Northwest Kidney Centers has abiding lives and aggressive hope. Its mission – to advance health, ability and above of activity for humans with branch ache – charcoal basic today. One in seven American adults now has branch disease, up 30 percent in the accomplished decade. For added information, go to www.nwkidney.org.
CONTACT:
Cynthia Flash
425-603-9520
cynthia@flashmediaservices.com
Steve Huebner, a accomplice at KPMG in Seattle and a citizen of Bellevue, was adopted as Chairman. Others admiral cover Vice Chairman David Wilde, a CPA who lives and works in Auburn, and Secretary/Treasurer Craig Goodrich, who works in accounts at Virginia Mason in Seattle and lives in Kent. This year, three new associates accompany the board. They cover Bellevue association Gary R. Houlahan, who works at Mutual Materials, and retired Boeing controlling Clint Randolph, and Seattle citizen Dr. Lisa Florence, a vascular acceptance surgeon.
John S. Capps, Deborah Crabbe, Joe Eschbach, Betty Halvorson, Dr. Robert Jaffe, Dr. Michael R. Kelly, James Manning, Dr. Vilma Quijada, Dr. Michael Ryan, Dr. Stuart Shankland, David Wilde, and Dr. Bessie Young abide to serve on the board.
The Northwest Kidney Centers Board of Trustees includes assembly from the medical and business community, as able-bodied as borough leaders, all who serve one- to three-year agreement of office.
Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation, which oversees fundraising for the nonprofit organization, has aswell called new admiral for 2009-2010. They cover President Clint Randolph, Vice President Dr. Cyrus Cryst, Treasurer Gary R. Houlahan, and Secretary Katheryn Cole. Rich Bloch joins as a new trustee. Other associates cover Bert Lundh, Wanda Wong, Deborah Crabbe, Dr. Robert Hegstrom, Dr. Michael Kelly, Thomas E. Melang, Dr. Rex Ochi, William Peckham, Doug Seto, Nancy Spaeth, and Luth Tenorio.
The nonprofit Northwest Kidney Centers provides 80 percent of the dialysis affliction in King and Clallam counties, educates the accessible about branch health, and collaborates with the University of Washington School of Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute. Northwest Kidney Centers’ agents of 550 delivers added than 200,000 treatments a year in 14 dialysis centers and 11 hospitals. It aswell maintains one of the country’s better training and abutment programs for humans who ambition to accord themselves dialysis at home. Since 1962, Northwest Kidney Centers has abiding lives and aggressive hope. Its mission – to advance health, ability and above of activity for humans with branch ache – charcoal basic today. One in seven American adults now has branch disease, up 30 percent in the accomplished decade. For added information, go to www.nwkidney.org.
CONTACT:
Cynthia Flash
425-603-9520
cynthia@flashmediaservices.com
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