Mark Johnson is featured in a new video by the American Kidney Fund.

Mark is the Chair of the Patient Advisory Council (PAC) and serves on the Board of Directors. He also represents Network 12 as a legacy member on the NCC Patient
and Family Engagement LAN.
Living Well with Kidney Disease Educational Patient Event

Please join the Network as we provide a Free patient meeting on Living Well with Kidney Disease! This free meeting will educate patients and care partners about modality options, network resources and more. We would love for you to be a part of this great afternoon of education by spreading the word to your patients and even attending along side them!

Date: Sunday, Aug. 25 | Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: Matt Ross Community Center, 8101 Marty St., Overland Park, KS 66204
Network Board Nominations
This year, we will be accepting nominations for the following positions:
  • social worker
  • dialysis technician
  • administrator
  • dietitian
  • transplant surgeon

More information will be sent by email and available at www.heartlandkidney.org . 
Legacy Award Deadline Extended to July 31

The Ardyth (Ardy) M. Boucher Legacy Award has been developed to recognize and celebrate a dialysis or transplant patient who is dedicated to patient advocacy and education to help improve the quality of life for kidney patients in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska.
Nominations are open for the first recipient of this memorial award through July 31, 2019.

Patient Advisory Council Recruitment 2019
As part of the Network’s governing body, the Patient Advisory Council (PAC) provides the patient perspective in our patient education and QIA planning, implementation and evaluation in our 4-state region.

We are especially in need of patients who are currently doing dialysis at home and for family members/care partners to join the PAC.

If you have a patient or know a family member of a patient who may be interested in becoming a member of our Patient Advisory Council, we encourage you to have them complete the PAC application. We are accepting applications for the 2020 contract year.

Please submit applications by Aug. 30 so we can include “new” members in our Annual PAC Summit held in October.

For more information or to recommend a current Network Patient Representative, please contact DeeDee Velasquez-Peralta at 816-880-9990.

New Videos on Facebook
We have been working on a series of videos for home dialysis and vocational rehabilitation. You can find them on our Facebook page .

Click here to watch the first of our home dialysis videos!
VIP: Peer to Peer Sharing Calls

Patients tell us that talking with peers is helpful as they navigate their journey with kidney disease. During our Very Important Patient: Peer to Peer Sharing Calls we had several patients sharing their experiences with Transplant; Vocational...

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Patient Engagement Resource Highlights

Resources to help engage patients in their care including this month’s Topic of the Month, resources to plan ahead for next month and best practices shared by facilities in our Network!

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Patient Engagement in ACTION!
Facility administrator Bob Fogarty and his team at Lees Summit Dialysis worked with their Network Patient Representative, Jeremy LaFollette, to plan and host a lobby day to share information on vocational rehabilitation services.

What a wonderful way to engage patients and get the word out! Keep up the great work!
Interested in hosting your own lobby day?

Check out our new  Lobby Day Checklist  and Idea sheets for  Home Dialysis ;  Infection Prevention ;  Transplant  and  Vocational Rehabilitation t o get you started!
Is there a patient engagement activity you would like to share with our Network community? We would love to share your best practices.

If you have a picture or project you’d like to share that is not part of a Network QIA report your Patient Engagement Activity  HERE.
Upcoming Events
ESRD NCC QIA LAN Call Series
The End Stage Renal Disease National Coordinating Center Quality Improvement Activity Learning and Action Networks (ESRD NCC QIA LANs) hosts a series of calls based on topics of the CMS Quality Improvement Activities (QIAs).

These include:
  • Blood Stream Infection (BSI)
  • Home Modality
  • Transplant
  • Depression.

ALL ESRD facilities are invited to these meetings because improving the lives of dialysis patients in these areas is a global goal. Please also share these calls with your patients.

If you have questions, please call the Network office at 816-880-9990.
July NPR Connection Calls

Topic: Patient Rights and Responsibilities
Date: July 11 or June 12
Time: 1 p.m. CST
For audio, you will need to also call-in using the following information:
Phone: 888-537-7715
Access Code: 885 90 323#
Vocational Rehabilitation Works
for You and Your Quality of Life

If you missed this great presentation by Elizabeth Jones, MSW, LCSW, you can watch it online.
First Ever Kidney Disease ECHO Happening in Missouri

T he Missouri Kidney Program (MoKP) has been working together with Show Me ECHO to develop the first Kidney Disease ECHO in the country. 

MoKP is starting out with a series of webinars to establish our audience with primary care doctors and partners like renal dieticians, social workers, nurses. 

The Kidney Disease ECHO focuses on Chronic Kidney Disease.
Patient Experience of Care Monthly Resource Highlights
Based upon patient and facility staff feedback, the Network developed these resources to provide guidance to facility staff to get started and continue to work with your NPR to successfully improve the patient experience of care at your facility.

New Resources:
REMEMBER: NHSN Data Deadlines
NHSN is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure the progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.
Facilities should:

Contact the NHSN Helpdesk ( nhsn@cdc.gov , subject line ‘Dialysis’) with any questions.
This resource was developed while under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contract #HHSM-500-2016-00012C. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 19.Q-ESRD12.07.144