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National Kidney Awareness Month

March is National Kidney Month! This year's theme is Have More Healthy Moments: Get Tested and Follow Your Kidney Health.

Kidney disease is often referred to as a “silent disease,” because there are usually no symptoms during its early stages. As many as 90% of Americans who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) don’t know they have the disease until it is very advanced.

Visit the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website for more information and to download the toolkit so you can get involved in National Kidney Month.

Behavioral Health

Home Dialysis and Kidney Transplant

Addressing the Barriers: Racial Disparities in Living Donor Transplant

This webinar from the American Society of Transplantation provides an overview of disparities in living donation with a focus on race, reviews educational and technology-based platforms to help address barriers and improve outcomes in living donation, and describes institutional specific practice changes that have identified and addressed racial disparities for living donation.

Nursing Home

Nursing Home Toolkit

Caring for patients that are on dialysis is very complex. It is imperative to be knowledgeable on the specific needs that these patients have to ensure proper care is being taken for these individuals.

Blood Stream Infection Bulletin Board Kit

Use this bulletin board kit to get patients and staff involved in helping combat infections in your facility. Utilize staff and patients to help set the bulletin board up and learn new information on infections as well.

Talk to Your Patient Guide: Anemia and Kidney Disease

This guide will help develop your conversations as providers with your patients over Anemia.

Vaccination and Hospitalization

Missed Treatments and Reducing Hospital Visits Workbook

Each of the modules in this workbook has activities to help patients learn more about what happens when they miss treatments and how to avoid serious complications. Download the Workbook

Build your Personal COVID-19 Plan

Put together your COVID-19 plan so you have all the information you need on hand if you get sick with COVID-19. Download and provide to your patients and assist them with their plan as needed.

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COVID-19 Testing and Treatment

If you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and you are aged 50 years or older OR are at high risk of getting very sick: get tested. If you have COVID-19 you may be eligible for treatment. Contact your healthcare provider and start treatment within the first few days of symptoms. You can also visit a Test to Treat location. Treatment can reduce your risk of hospitalization by more than 50% and also reduces the risk of death.

Recommended Vaccinations

Get the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens and adults from immunize.org.

Influenza activity is low for now, but with weeks of winter still ahead, keep encouraging vaccination.

Health Equity

Advancing Health Equity

for Kidney Care

Engaging Diverse Communities about Organ, Tissue, and Eye Donation Through and EDI Lens

Patient and Family Engagement

Life Planning

Goal Setting: Getting Back to Me

This workbook was developed by a group of kidney patients and family members who have felt the impact of this diagnosis on their overall emotional wellbeing. Caught in a world of uncertainty, they used various coping strategies to move forward. Through many heart-felt conversations and sharing of personal journeys, a common strategy formed—restoring hope and dignity through goal setting. This workbook is designed to help patients restore their sense of dignity and increase self-esteem through goal setting. 

Disclaimer | This material was prepared by Qsource, an End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Views expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of CMS or HHS, and any reference to a specific product or entity herein does not constitute endorsement of that product or entity by CMS or HHS. 23.ESRD.03.036