Fresenius Medical Care

Links & Resources

The following links are provided to assist you in researching information on topics related to chronic kidney disease and dialysis. Fresenius Medical Care offers links to these sites for your convenience, however no endorsement of the content of any individual site is implied. To assist you in your search, we have organized the information into the following categories:

• Dialysis Access Options
• Diet and Nutrition
• Employment and Disability
• Financial and Insurance
• For Caregivers
• General Patient Information
• Professional Organizations
• Transplant
• Travel

Dialysis Access Options

American Association of Kidney Patients
http://www.aakp.org/brochures/access-options/index.cfm

Fistula First
http://www.fistulafirst.org/

National Kidney and Urologic Disease Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/KUDiseases/pubs/vascularaccess/index.aspx

Vascular Web
http://www.vascularweb.org/Pages/default.aspx 

Diet and Nutrition

American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)
http://www.aakp.org/newsletters/KB-The-Magazine/Diet-Tips-&-Bits/Nutrition-Information/index.cfm

Culinary Kidney Cooks
http://www.culinarykidneycooks.com/

National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozTopic_Nutrition-Diet.cfm

National Kidney and Urologic Disease Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC)
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/KUDiseases/pubs/eatright/index.aspx

Employment and Disability

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov/

Life Options
http://www.lifeoptions.org/catalog/pdfs/booklets/employment.pdf

National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/working.pdf

Disability.gov
https://www.disability.gov/

Ticket to Work
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10061.html

Social Security Administration
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/redbook/eng/main.htm

Vocational Rehabilitation State Offices
http://askjan.org/cgi-win/typequery.exe?902 

Financial and Insurance

(Visit the Paying for Treatment section of our website for more specific links and information, or to speak with an insurance specialist, call our Insurance Information Hotline: 1-888-846-4521)

American Kidney Fund
http://www.akfinc.org/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
https://www.cms.gov

ChampVA (Veterans’ Administration)
http://www.va.gov/hac/forbeneficiaries/champva/champva.asp

Health Insurance Resource Center
http://www.healthinsurance.org/risk_pools/

Indian Health Service (HIS)
http://www.ihs.gov/index.cfm

Kidney Medicare Drugs Awareness and Education Initiative
http://www.kidneydrugcoverage.org/

Kidney and Urology Foundation of America (KUF)
http://www.kidneyurology.org/

Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/default.aspx

National Council on Aging
http://www.benefitscheckup.org//

Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/

TennCare
http://state.tn.us/tenncare/

TriCare
http://www.tricare.mil/

Veterans’ Health
http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/ 

For Caregivers

Family Caregiver Alliance
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp

National Family Caregivers Association
http://www.nfcacares.org/

General Patient Information

American Association of Kidney Patients
http://www.aakp.org/

American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org/

Dialysis Patient Citizens
http://www.dialysispatients.org/

End Stage Renal Disease Networks
http://www.esrdnetworks.org/

Home Dialysis Central
http://www.homedialysis.org/

Kidney Times
http://www.kidneytimes.com/

Kidney Patient News
http://www.kidneypatientnews.org/

Kidney School
http://www.kidneyschool.org/

Kidney and Urology Foundation of America (KUA)
http://www.kidneyurology.org/

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/ 

National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP)
http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/

The Renal Network
http://www.therenalnetwork.org/

Renal Web
http://www.renalweb.com/

Lifestyle

KidneyTalk (audio)
http://www.rsnhope.org/programs/kidney_talk3.php

KidneyTimes
http://www.kidneytimes.com/

National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/patients/plu/plu_manag/index.cfm

Peritoneal Dialysis

Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/peritoneal-dialysis/MY00282

National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/nutri_pd.pdf 

Professional Organizations

American Academy of Nephrology Physician Assistants (AANPA)
http://www.aanpa.org/

American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)
http://www.diabeteseducator.org/

American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA)
http://www.annanurse.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ANNANurse.woa

American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
http://www.asn-online.org/home.aspx

American Society of Transplantation (AST)
http://www.a-s-t.org/

Hypertension, Dialysis and Clinical Nephrology (HDCN)
http://www.medtext.com/hdcn.shtml

International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD)
http://www.ispd.org/

National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
http://www.kidney.org/professionals/ 

Nephrology News and Issues
http://nephnews.com/

Renal Physicians Association (RPA)
http://www.renalmd.org/

Renal Research Institute
http://www.renalresearch.com/RRI/index.htm

United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
http://www.usrds.org/ 

Transplant

National Institute for Diabetics and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/transplant/

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/kidneytransplantation.html

National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/kidneytransnewlease.cfm

Scientific Registry of Transplant Records
http://www.srtr.org/

Transplant Living
http://www.transplantliving.org/

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
http://www.unos.org/ 

Travel

Holiday Dialysis International
http://www.hditravel.com/en/15.htm 

Dialysis at Sea
http://www.dialysisatsea.com/