Northwest Renal Network

Helping Navigate Emergency Preparedness

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

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

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Our Privacy Policy

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Updated January 20, 2017

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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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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Helping Navigate Emergency Preparedness

Helping Navigate Data and Information Services

Helping You Navigate Kidney Disease

Helping Navigate Quality Improvement

Helping Navigate Patient Care

Welcome

Network 16 Annual Quality Conference click the button below to register

News and Events

Our Privacy Policy