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)
- Council of Nephrology Social Workers (CNSW)
- Forum of ESRD Networks
- Home Dialyzors United (HDU)
- Medical Education Institute (MEI)
- National Association of Nephrology Technicians/Technologists (NANT)
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
- National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
- National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA)
- Renal Physicians Association (RPA)
- United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
- United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Of equal importance are the Network collaborations with hospital associations, health departments, 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.
