National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin

Direct Services to Patients and their Families The National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin NKFW provides online and live-streamed programming for transplant recipients, living donors, dialysis patients and caregivers medical identification jewelry to ensure proper patient care and safety in emergency situations a toll-free helpline, local and community programming and electronic/social media postings connecting patients and their caregivers to local support groups, transportation, insurance, food and other local community, governmental or academic or evidence-based resources

Provide Community Services As part of a statewide collaborative, the NKFW is a primary partner of the Healthy Shelves Food Pantry Initiative. Since 1 in 3 individuals who use a food pantry have diabetes, the NKFW promotes statewide public awareness campaigns designed to encourage the donation of diabetes-friendly foods to local food pantries. Community education programs are organized and live-streamed on topics including diabetes, hypertension and kidney health over the counter medications and kidney health altruistic kidney donation. Free kidney health/diabetes screenings are held in counties that have a high incidence of individuals diagnosed with cronic kidney disease.

Provide Professional Education The National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin offers an annual statewide continuing education program for dialysis nurses, social workers, dietitians and patient care technicians. Over 200 professionals attend each year. Responding to requests from other organizations, the NKFW provides medical expert speakers to present clinical information and training on diabetes and kidney health, living kidney donation and nutrition and kidney health. The NKFW organizes five meetings and continuing education programs for Wisconsin dialysis social workers.