Partnerships & Collaborations
Networks engage in a variety of collaborative activities that include communication and coordination with renal partners at the local, state, Network, regional, and national levels.
Our Partners
In addition to conducting collaborative activities with patients, family members/caregivers, independent dialysis corporations, and Large Dialysis Organizations (LDOs), Networks partner with organizations such as:
- American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)
- American Kidney Fund (AKF)
- American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA)
- American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
- Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (QIN) of NY, DC and SC
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Initiatives
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Clean Hands Count)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Get Ahead of Sepsis)
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Council of Nephrology Social Workers (CNSW)
- ESRD National Coordinating Center (NCC)
- Forum of ESRD Networks
- Georgia Department of Public Health
- Home Dialyzors United (HDU)
- Indian State Department of Health
- Kidney Community Emergency Response Coalitions (KCER)
- Kentucky Department for Public Health
- Maine Department of Health and Human Services
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Medical Education Institute (MEI)
- National Association of Nephrology Technicians/Technologists (NANT)
- National Forum of ESRD Networks
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
- National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA)
- New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- New York State Department of Health
- North Carolina Department of Health
- NY Kidney Transplant Consortium
- Ohio Department of Health
- Renal Physicians Association (RPA)
- Rhode Island Department of Health
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
- United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
- United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)
- Vermont Department of Health
Of equal importance are the Network collaborations with hospital associations, emergency medical services, transplant providers, other patient and professional organizations, Offices of Emergency Management, State Agencies, and Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) in their geographic areas.
