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Newly Diagnosed
- American Kidney Fund First 30 Program
- A “New Normal”: Life on Dialysis—The First 90 Days
- Be Prepared: Safe Hemodialysis Treatment Checklist
- Patient Rights & Responsibilities
- Questions to Get You Started
- Questions to Get You Started (Spanish)
Treatment Choices
- Dialysis Choices: Choosing the Right Options for You!
- Dialysis Choices: Choosing the Right Options for You! (Spanish)
- Kidney Failure: What are my treatment choices?
- Questions to Help with Your Treatment Choices
- Questions to Help With Your Treatment Choices (Spanish)
Access Planning and Care
- FFCL: Hemodialysis Vascular Access
- FFCL: Hemodialysis Vascular Access (Spanish)
- Let’s Talk: Questions or Concerns about a Permanent Access?
- Lifeline for a Lifetime: Planning for Your Vascular Access
Staying Healthy
- Guide to A Healthier You
- Guide to a Healthier You (Spanish)
- Tips for Staying Healthy Outside of the Dialysis Clinic
- Tips for Staying Healthy Outside of the Dialysis Clinic (Spanish)
- Your Fluid Intake Matters!
- Your Fluid Intake Matters! (Spanish)
Being Involved In Your Care
- 10 Tips to Getting More Involved in Your Care
- Hospital Discharge Checklist
- Hospital Discharge Checklist (Spanish)
- Hospital Discharge Checklist—Newly Diagnosed Renal Patients
- Hospital Discharge Checklist—Newly Diagnosed Renal Patients (Spanish)
- My Plan, My Care
- My Plan, My Care (Spanish)
- Because Your Voice Matters
- Because Your Voice Matters (Spanish)
Traveling on Dialysis
- My Dialysis Travel Checklist
- My Dialysis Travel Checklist (Spanish)
- My Home Dialysis Travel Checklist
- My Home Dialysis Travel Checklist (Spanish)
Medicare Information
- Catheter Check Guide
- Check Catheter Guide (Spanish)
- Monitoring Your Vascular Access
- Monitoring Your Vascular Access (Spanish)
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Fistula Dialysis Check: Weeks 1–2
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Fistula Dialysis Check: Week 3
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Fistula Dialysis Check: Weeks 4-5
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Fistula Dialysis Check: Weeks 6–10
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Graft Dialysis Check: Week 1
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Graft Dialysis Check: Weeks 2–3
- “Ready, Set, Go” New Graft Dialysis Check: Week 4
- Dos and Don’ts: How to Keep Your Vascular Access Healthy
- Choosing Home Dialysis
- Choosing Home Dialysis (Spanish)
- My Home Dialysis Checklist
- My Home Dialysis Checklist (Spanish)
- Let’s Talk: Home Dialysis
- Uncovering Myths About Home Dialysis
- Options for Dialyzing at Home
- Options for Dialyzing at Home (Spanish)
- Know the Facts About Home Dialysis Choices
- Know the Facts About Home Dialysis Choices (Spanish)
- Treatment Options: Peritoneal Dialysis
- Treatment Options: Peritoneal Dialysis (Spanish)
- Pledge for Clean Hands In-Center
- Pledge for Clean Hands In-Center (Spanish)
- Pledge for Clean Hands In Your Home
- Pledge for Clean Hands In Your Home (Spanish)
- Maintaining the Immune System
- Maintaining the Immune System (Spanish)
- Kidney Transplant: Tackling Transplant Infections
- Kidney Transplant: Tackling Transplant Infections (Spanish)
- Preventing Peritonitis: Peritonitis Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention
- Preventing Peritonitis: Peritonitis Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention (Spanish)
- Test Your Hand Hygiene Knowledge Tutorial
- Clean Hands Count
- Conversation Starter to Prevent Infection in Dialysis Patients
- How Do you Get an Infection?
- Your Infection Prevention Guide
- Be Heard: Tips for Talking with Your Care Team
- Be Heard: Tips for Talking with Your Care Team (Spanish)
- Goal Setting: Getting Back to Me
- Dialysis Patient Depression Toolkit
- Just the Facts: Dealing With Depression
- I Can Do It, My Plan to Take Charge
- Health Status Release Form
- Questions for Better Health
- Starting Your Journal
- Starting Your Caregiver Journal
- Staying Fit with Kidney Disease
- Motivational Patient Stories
- Planning for a Kidney Transplant
- Planning for a Kidney Transplant (Spanish)
- Preparing for a Kidney Transplant
- Preparing for a Kidney Transplant (Spanish)
- Kidney Transplant: Protecting Your Kidney From Infection
- Kidney Transplant: Protecting Your Kidney From Infection (Spanish)
- Kidney Transplant: Tackling Transplant Infections
- Kidney Transplant: Tackling Transplant Infections (Spanish)
- Get the Facts: Kidney Transplantation
- Get the Facts: Kidney Transplantation (Spanish)
- Partnering Along the Road to Transplant (English)
- Partnering Along the Road to Transplant (Spanish)
- Why Transplant Is a Good Idea for Me!
- Why Transplant Is a Good Idea for Me! (Spanish)
- Is a Kidney Transplant Right for Me?
- The Road to Transplant
- The Road to Transplant (Spanish)
- Your Life Your Choice: Stories from Kidney Transplant Patients and Donors
- CMS: Medicare Coverage of Kidney Dialysis & Kidney Transplant Services
Transplant 101 Series
- What Is a Kidney Transplant?
- What Is a Kidney Transplant? (Spanish)
- What Is a Kidney Transplant Center?
- What Is a Kidney Transplant Center? (Spanish)
- Meet the Members of the Transplant Team
- Meet the Members of the Transplant Team (Spanish)
- Types of Kidney Donors
- Types of Kidney Donors (Spanish)
- The Kidney Transplant Surgery
- The Kidney Transplant Surgery (Spanish)
- Post-Transplant Kidney Diet
- Post-Transplant Kidney Diet (Spanish)
- How Much Does a Kidney Transplant Cost?
- How Much Does a Kidney Transplant Cost? (Spanish)
- ESRD Patient Emergency Planning Checklist
- Preparing for Emergencies: A Guide for People on Dialysis
- Patient Emergency Contact List
- KCER: Three-Day Emergency Diet
- KCER: Three-Day Emergency Diet (Spanish)
- Emergency Disconnect Procedure for In-Center Hemodialysis Patients
- Emergency Disconnect Procedure for In-Center Hemodialysis Patients (Spanish)
The ESRD Networks work with kidney patients, dialysis, and transplant centers to improve the quality of care to assist your patients in getting right care at the right time. There are 18 ESRD Networks that are responsible for each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia—see the Overview. One of the main duties of the Networks is to help the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) understand the needs of dialysis patients. Find your ESRD Network by clicking on your state on this map.
Here are several organizations with which the ESRD Networks regularly collaborate:
- Patient Support Group (from the American Association of Kidney Patients [AAKP])
- Peer Mentoring (from the ESRD NCC)
- National Kidney Foundation
- American Association of Kidney Patients
- Understanding Depression in Kidney Disease (from the AAKP)
- Renal Support Network
- National Living Donor Assistance
- My Dialysis Choice
- Kidney School—Living Successfully with Kidney Disease
- Home Dialyzors United
- Alliance for Home Dialysis
- Forum of ESRD Networks Patient Resource page
