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  • Emergency Preparedness

    Helping Navigate Emergency Preparedness

    Assisting with emergency preparedness planning, providing patient and provider emergency resources and assisting with other related activities.

  • Renal Data Services

    Helping Navigate Data and Information Services

    Providing support for timely and accurate data collection, ensuring confidentiality and security of data submitted, providing support for ESRD Network Data Systems including CROWNWeb, and assisting providers with other activities.

  • Northwest Renal Network

    Helping You Navigate Kidney Disease

    We are a private non-profit corporation whose mission is to promote optimal dialysis and transplant care for kidney patients in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

  • Quality Improvement

    Helping Navigate Quality Improvement

    Developing Quality Improvement projects, providing specific clinical expertise, serving as a resource on the Conditions for Coverage and assisting providers with other activities.

  • Patient Resources

    Helping Navigate Patient Care

    Working with both patients and providers, handling patient concerns, providing education, answering questions about patient employment and assisting with other activities.

 
 
 

Welcome

Established in 1978, Northwest Renal Network ("NWRN" or "the Network") is a private, not-for-profit corporation independent of any dialysis company, individual unit, or transplant center. As one of eighteen End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks that span the US, we are often called "Network #16" or "NW16." Our mission is to promote optimal dialysis and transplant care for kidney patients in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Funded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, we collect and analyze data on patients enrolled in the Medicare ESRD program, serve as an information resource, and monitor the quality of care given to dialysis and transplant patients in the Pacific Northwest.

Depression Toolkit

 
The Forum of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network’s Kidney Patient Advisory Council (KPAC) has developed the Dialysis Depression Toolkit to help patients who feel they may be experiencing depression. This toolkit was designed BY patients and FOR patients with important contributions by professional collaborators. It is the hope of the authors that this toolkit may help explain the complicated topic and how to find help. 
 
Click on the butterfly above to view the depression toolkit!  Click HERE for the Spanish version of the toolkit.
 
The recording and slides of a live webinar on Depression & Dialysis: Removing the Stigma and Strengthening our Mental Health, hosted by patient leaders from the Forum in collaboration with AAKP and NKF on October 4, 2018, plus ancillary resources, are also now available at http://esrdnetworks.org/education/quality-conference/quality-conference-webinar-series-2018-2019.
 
 

News and Events

 
For the latest News and Events, see our blog, esrdbulletins.

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Find a list of Events for Patients.

Find a list of Events and Deadlines for Professional Staff.

 

Our Privacy Policy

We do not collect any information about you when you visit our site. Be forewarned that email can be intercepted easily, so please do not put confidential information into an email to us - in many cases it is a violation of federal law. If you have a grievance about dialysis or transplant care, please refer to our Grievance Protocol Summary for details about the confidentiality and privacy of grievances.

 

For information about the availability of auxiliary aids and services for people with disabilities, please visit The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Notice of Nondiscrimination and Notice of Availability of Auxiliary Aids & Services.

For alternative formats of Network materials, please see Americans with Disabilities Act on the Network 16 blog.

Please Contact Us if you find this site useful, if you have ideas for improving it, or if you find a broken link, typo, or other problem.

Updated June14, 2018

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CROWNWeb provides Medicare-licensed facilities with a means of electronically reporting their patient and facility data directly to CMS in real-time. Access to CROWNWeb is restricted to registered users who have completed security training.

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Find and compare Medicare-certified dialysis facilities and get information about chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplants.

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Why Should Fistulas be First?

Since 2003, CMS and the renal community have worked diligently to increase the use of AV fistulas. Advantages for patients who choose an AV fistula are lower infection rates, lower hospitalization rates, and lower and mortality rates.

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ESRD QIP

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administers the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Incentive Program (QIP) to promote high-quality services in outpatient dialysis facilities treating patients with ESRD.

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