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3 Things You Can Do for National Kidney Month

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:07+00:00February 28th, 2014|Categories: Article, Take Action|

March is National Kidney Month which provides the perfect opportunity to educate your community about kidney disease! Here are some suggestions to help you increase awareness about kidney disease: The DPC Education Center is holding a grassroots fundraiser to raise money for our kidney education efforts. We'll give you the tools you will need to participate. Fundraise World Kidney Day is March 13. If you are interested in handing out information in your dialysis facility or your community, we can provide all the materials and instructions you will need. Hold an Event Visit our Legislative Action Center to [...]

Apply for DPC’s 2014 World Kidney Day Fly-in

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:08+00:00December 1st, 2013|Categories: Article, Get Involved, Take Action|

Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) is holding our 2014 World Kidney Day Fly-in from March 11 through March 13 in Washington, DC. Are you ready to join the nation’s top patient advocates in Washington, DC and talk to your legislators directly about the issues that affect dialysis patients? If so, be sure to apply! We are looking for kidney disease patients who are passionate about dialysis advocacy. Before applying, you must first enroll in DPC’s Patient’s Ambassador Program. Preference will be given to applicants who have volunteered for DPC in the past and who live in key congressional districts. At the [...]

CMS Proposes Devastating Cuts to Dialysis Payments
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CMS Proposes Devastating Cuts to Dialysis Payments

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:57+00:00July 19th, 2013|Categories: Article, Dialysis Funding, Take Action|

URGENT: Protect your dialysis care! Urge your Members of Congress to prevent a kidney care crisis! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a regulation that proposes to reduce Medicare funding for dialysis treatments by 9.4%. The American Taxpayers Relief Act (the fiscal cliff deal) mandated CMS to adjust the price it pays for dialysis to reflect the recent change in usage of certain anemia management drugs. However, no one in the kidney community expected CMS to propose such a dramatic and potentially devastating cut. Please take a few moments to express your outrage to your Members of [...]

Congressional Corner: February 2013
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Congressional Corner: February 2013

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:59+00:00February 20th, 2013|Categories: Blog, Take Action|

By Carrie L. Director of Congressional and State Relations As it has been mentioned in previous blog posts, World Kidney Day is a great opportunity to get out in the community and raise awareness about kidney disease. For us here at the DPC office, this means inviting some of our most active Patient Ambassadors from around the country to join us in the nation’s capital. On World Kidney Day, the Patient Ambassadors will meet with their Members of Congress to talk with them about the policy issues that mean the most to kidney disease patients and to share their stories. [...]

Dash of Sage: World Kidney Day is Rapidly Approaching

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:00+00:00February 12th, 2013|Categories: Blog, Take Action|

By Sage B., Grassroots Manager This week I am working on World Kidney Day (WKD) materials to help people organize events, contact their lawmakers and educate the public on issues that dialysis patients face. And it reminds me of an old story from my former life as a domestic violence advocate: In the 1970’s the domestic abuse movement was basically made up of private citizens who were willing to open their homes to victims of domestic abuse. Unfortunately, aside from these very brave individuals, domestic abuse was still seen as a private matter, and lawmakers weren’t about to address it. So [...]

From the Welcome Desk at DPC: January Edition

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:00+00:00January 18th, 2013|Categories: Blog, Take Action|

By Stephen C., Policy Assistant Hello all! This week, I wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity that I can help you out with. As you hopefully already know, World Kidney Day is coming up on March 14th. You might ask, “What is World Kidney Day?” To give you the general idea, here is its stated mission: “The mission of World Kidney Day is to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide.” Obviously, this is something right up [...]

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