The Renal Physicians Association and the Forum of End Stage Renal Disease Networks welcome you to Keeping Kidney Patients Safe. This web site serves as a resource for nephrology professionals who are committed to achieving and maintaining optimum levels of kidney patient safety.
Keeping Kidney Patients Safe provides information and best practices to prevent the occurrence of the Five Adverse Patient Safety Events as identified by patient and professional surveys and also assists nephrology professionals in meeting the quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) requirements outlined in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions for Coverage for End Stage Renal Disease Facilities.
NQF has released The Power of Safety: State Reporting Provides Lessons in Reducing Harm, Improving Care, which explains how public patient safety reporting successfully happens at state levels and outlines the future challenges for these systems. These systems can facilitate substantive reporting, and the information derived then can be evaluated and acted upon to improve care and reduce errors.
When Heidi Postlethwait, MS, C-ES, meets with the patients at Wheeling Renal Care, she looks far beyond the clinical data detailed before, during and after each dialysis treatment. Instead, she delves into broader issues of the whole person-vital to creating individual strategies to help people maximize their opportunities for physical activity and a fuller life. Learn more about WRCs approach.
Patients who are involved in their dialysis care are less likely to indicate that they have had the wrong dialysate set up for their treatment than those who are uninvolved in their care. Visit Did You Know? to learn more