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/

  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

   

  Matching Donors Searchable Registry of Living Organ Donors
  http://www.MatchingDonors.com/gtd.html

   

  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/