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Honoring Three NKF Volunteers with The Arthur P. Pasquarella Leadership in Action Award

At the National Kidney Foundation, we are committed to educating people about their risk of kidney disease while dismantling structural inequities in ...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Fundraising and volunteering,

Patient advocacy,

Fundraising events

Transplants for All: An NKF Progress Report

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) believes in a future where everyone who needs a kidney gets one–a future where there are Transplants for All. Fro...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Instincts and Impact: The Decision to Donate a Kidney

Kellye Miller has always followed her instinct. As a fourth-year college student, she gave up a physics scholarship to pursue communications at a new ...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

When Courage Meets Kindness

When Courage Meets Kindness Jennifer Cramer-Miller Marcia Ballinger, a leader in the Twin Cities executive search community, involves herself in an ar...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy

Kidney Transplant Challenges for U.S. Veterans

The expressed opinions of Dr. Mohottige are her own and do not reflect official VA policy or practice. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) repo...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Other Financial Resources

Explore financial resources for medical and dental care: free flights from Air Care Alliance and Angel Flight, low-cost dental care through ADA and NF...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Health insurance

Medigap Plans

Medigap Plans help cover costs Medicare doesn‚Äôt, like copayments and deductibles. Offered by private insurers, they vary in cost and coverage.

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Health insurance

Making the Case for Home Dialysis

By Lauren Drew, Congressional Relations Director Many patients are not informed when they first begin dialysis that there are more options beyond the...

Treatments and therapies,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Patient advocacy,

Home hemodialysis

Medicare

Medicare covers dialysis and kidney transplant costs for all ages. Includes Part A (hospital care), Part B (doctor services), and Part D (prescription...

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

End-of-life planning,

Health insurance,

Advance directives

5 NKF Advocates Fighting for KIDNEY EQUITY FOR ALL™

Meet five inspiring Voices for Kidney Health advocates at the forefront of the battle for kidney equity. They faced kidney disease head-on, and now th...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Healthcare quality, access, and evaluation,

Patient advocacy,