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Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
ESRD Treatment Choices Model 2021: Opportunities, Challenges, and Clinic List
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This post will examine dialysis clinics selected for the Model and challenges some clinics and their patients with Original Medicare may face.
Published on 01/21/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Care Partner? Me? A “Dialysis Tech at Home” for My Loved One? NO WAY!
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There’s no way I or we can do this at home, there is too much that can go wrong, I am not a nurse or a dialysis technician
Published on 01/14/2021 by Michael Howington
The Insignificance in The Significant
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See, the things they carried in their utility kits described them. The contents told us of the lives they led, and the things that kept them alive and going during war.
Published on 01/07/2021 by Yvonne Coleman
Tags: Making dialysis better,
Golf in Scotland - A Game Where a Handicap is Normal
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Golf in Scotland
Published on 12/24/2020 by David Rosenbloom and Linda Chiavaroli
The Promise of a Bioartificial Kidney
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Published on 12/17/2020 by Dr. William Fissell and Dr. Shuvo Roy
Vein Dilation Before Fistula Surgery: the PINCH and FACT
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More than 100,000 Americans initiate hemodialysis (HD) each year, and more than 80% of patients use central venous catheters (CVC) as their initial vascular access
Published on 12/10/2020 by Tej Singh, MD
Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
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Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
Published on 12/03/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Dunrobin Castle: 189 Rooms, No Elevator, and Gardens like Versailles!
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Some places have a powerful personal attraction, drawing us back time and again. Scotland is that special place for my wife Linda and me This was our 3rd trip since first visiting in 1978.
Published on 11/26/2020 by Henning Sondergaard and David Rosenbloom
Tags: Making dialysis better, travel,
Combatting Implicit Bias in Home Dialysis
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“Black and Asian patients are significantly less likely than white patients to receive CPR from dialysis staff.”
Published on 11/19/2020 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
The End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model Includes In-center Self Care
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On July 10 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health, which directed the Department of Health & Human Services to develop a reimbursement model to incentivize use of home dialysis and transplant.
Published on 11/12/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,