Northwest Kidney Centers

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rdf:langString Northwest Kidney Centers

rdf:langString Northwest Kidney Centers

rdf:langString King County and Clallam County, Washington

rdf:langString Northwest Kidney Centers’ kidney resource center at 700 Broadway, Seattle, Washington, includes a dialysis museum

rdf:langString Rebecca Fox

rdf:langString Suzanne Watnick, MD

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rdf:langString Northwest Kidney Centers is a regional, not-for-profit community-based provider of kidney dialysis, public health education, and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease. Established in Seattle in 1962, it was the world's first out-of-hospital dialysis provider. It offers dialysis throughout the greater Seattle area in 20 free-standing clinics, eight hospitals and its home dialysis program. It opened its first clinic in Everett in 2020, the organization's first in Snohomish county. Nearly 80 percent of people on dialysis in King County go to Northwest Kidney Centers for their treatment. The organization's 727-member staff provided 284,511 treatments in 2019, about a quarter of all dialysis treatments in the state. Northwest Kidney Centers operates the oldest home dialysis program in the United States, currently training 275 people to give themselves dialysis at home. Northwest Kidney Centers’ model of providing dialysis outside of a hospital setting has spread throughout the world. According to a United States Renal Data System 2013 report, there are 6,009 outpatient dialysis clinics in the United States. Compared to national averages, Northwest Kidney Centers patients live longer, have fewer complications, spend less time in the hospital and receive more kidney transplants.