Patients
Welcome to the Patient section Serving the NKF Serving the Alleghenies web site. Here you will find information about chronic kidney disease, dialysis, and much more.
Patient & Family Services
Coffee House Conversations
Coffee House Conversations is a free support group for ALL organ transplant recipients, their families, friends and loved ones, 12 and older.
Click here to download all Coffee House Podcasts!
Crisis Intervention Fund
Unlike many of our programs that provide information or lend emotional and psychological support, the Crisis Intervention Fund channels money directly to patients and families who are experiencing a financial crisis due to kidney disease or transplantation.
Please contact your social worker at your dialysis clinic for an application or download an application (
89kb).
Nutritional Supplements
Medicare, Medicaid, State Renal and private insurance programs typically will not pay for nutritional supplements, yet a good majority of patients need them and risk declining heath without them.
Please contact your social worker at your dialysis clinic for an application.
Patient/Family Symposium
The NKF Serving the Alleghenies’s annual Patient/Family Symposium is one of the key ways that we reach out and touch the lives of patients and families. Check back for more information.
Medical Alert Jewelry
Our Medical Alert Jewelry program is an important patient service that provides free-of-charge identification bracelets or necklaces to newly-diagnosed kidney disease patients or transplant recipients.
Please contact your social worker at your dialysis clinic for an application or download an application ( 51kb).
Transportation Program
Pennsylvania residents who meet eligibility requirements are reimbursed for a portion of the transportation costs associated with traveling to and from dialysis treatment three times a week. This program is run in collaboration with, and within the guidelines of, the Pennsylvania State Renal Disease Program.
Please contact your social worker at your dialysis clinic for an application or click here to download an application ()
Kidney Day at Kennywood
Save the Date! Sunday, May 24, 2009
Come enjoy a well-deserved change from the continual rigors of treatments, exams, shots and diagnostic testing that unfortunately accompany kidney disease with a day at the park. 
