KidneyTalk Podcast
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PEAK: Kidney Care Partners Community Initiative
Kidney Care Partners recently-launched
Performance Excellence and Accountability in Kidney Care (PEAK), a quality
improvement campaign with a goal of reducing mortality among first-year dialysis
patients by 20 percent by the end of the year 2012. Dr. Jones shares Kidney Care
Partners strategy on how they plan to improve survival and help people with
kidney disease thrive. Listen to why the mortality rate is so high and learn
what you can do to make sure you or a loved one are not one of the statistics.
For more information about this campaign, visit
About our Guest: Dr. Edward R. Jones, President of the
Renal Physicians Association (RPA) which is also a member of Kidney Care
Partners and served as chairman in 2007 and 2008. Dr. Jones is a practicing
nephrologist as well as Medical Director for Fresenius Medical Care (Mt Airy
Self Care in Philadelphia, Pa). Additionally, Dr. Jones is an attending
physician at The Albert Einstein Medical Center (AEMC) and Chestnut Hill
Hospital (CHH), and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Temple University
Hospital.
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With your Hosts...
Stephen Furst
got his big break into movies in
"Animal House," in which he played Flounder. Stephen has also
starred as Dr. Elliot Axelrod in "St. Elsewhere" and as Vir Cotto in "Babylon5." He is
a successful television and movie producer/director and a kidney patient.
Lori
Hartwell is the author of Chronically Happy - Joyful Living in
Spite of Chronic Illness, and President/Founder of Renal Support Network.
A kidney patient since the age of two, she has consistently strived to
instill hope into the lives of people who live with chronic kidney disease.
Posted July 16, 2009
