: Centers of excellence for kidney disease

[Guest guest]

Hi Bonnie,

Thanks for checking in on that. I had one conversation with the insurance

agent for my company, and she is checking into it but I have not heard back. I

am going to Kansas to our corporate headquarters next week so I should find

out something then.

I would love the web addresses for the top 50 hospitals and the Mayo

beginning dialysis sites too if you have them handy.

Thanks and don't work too late! Get some rest this weekend!

In a message dated 12/3/2004 5:50:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,

bd4679@... writes:

> Hi ,

> Just wondering if you have heard anything about your insurance

> coverage/transplant and high quality centers for kidney disease.... I was

surfing around

> today and noticed an article from Best Hospitals 2004 from USNews. There is a

> section for kidney disease and lists 4 hospitals in California which are

> considered on the top 50 best Hospitals list for kidney disease in the US.

> (They also include many other specialties as well). If you (or anyone on

site)

> is interested, I be glad to post.

> I also happened to run across a a very brief slideshow for very beginning

> kidney dialysis patients from the Mayo web site (quite basic, but if anyone

has

> never seen PD or hemo set up it may be of interest although I'm sure there

> is probably many other sites as well which are most comprehensive). Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Just wondering if you have heard anything about your insurance

coverage/transplant and high quality centers for kidney disease.... I was

surfing around today and noticed an article from Best Hospitals 2004 from

USNews. There is a section for kidney disease and lists 4 hospitals in

California which are considered on the top 50 best Hospitals list for kidney

disease in the US. (They also include many other specialties as well). If you

(or anyone on site) is interested, I be glad to post.

I also happened to run across a a very brief slideshow for very beginning kidney

dialysis patients from the Mayo web site (quite basic, but if anyone has never

seen PD or hemo set up it may be of interest although I'm sure there is probably

many other sites as well which are most comprehensive). Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Have fun next week in my birth state. (Lived in Meriam) Em also went to school

in Kansas in a little town called Great Bend. Awesome school for athletics

(98% of the kids or something like that are all athletes).

The web site for the Best Hospitals 2004 is:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/hosptl/rankings/specihqneph.htm

That should get you directly to the neph page. There is also a section on the

methodology of the ratings, and of course if you want to check any other

specialties out, it's all in the same article.

To get to the Mayo page for new patients deciding about different forms of

dialysis :

Google.....Mayoclinic.com

on the far left column go to Health Centers

Click on on Diabetes Mellitus

then go to explore treatments

click on dialysis

understanding dialysis slide show PD versus hemo (or whatever interests you).

these articles are written at a very basic knowledge level, so hope not boring

for you, but someone else might find some useful info here too.

There's also a Table on 3 day versus 6 day per week treatment schedules for hemo

I'm gonna dictate for a bit longer, then head home. Hope you have a good

night,. I hope and pray Kaiser will let you go where ever you want. Hopefully

your neph can help out in this arena as well. Bonnie

W4JC@... wrote:

Hi Bonnie,

Thanks for checking in on that. I had one conversation with the insurance

agent for my company, and she is checking into it but I have not heard back. I

am going to Kansas to our corporate headquarters next week so I should find

out something then.

I would love the web addresses for the top 50 hospitals and the Mayo

beginning dialysis sites too if you have them handy.

Thanks and don't work too late! Get some rest this weekend!

In a message dated 12/3/2004 5:50:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,

bd4679@... writes:

> Hi ,

> Just wondering if you have heard anything about your insurance

> coverage/transplant and high quality centers for kidney disease.... I was

surfing around

> today and noticed an article from Best Hospitals 2004 from USNews. There is a

> section for kidney disease and lists 4 hospitals in California which are

> considered on the top 50 best Hospitals list for kidney disease in the US.

> (They also include many other specialties as well). If you (or anyone on

site)

> is interested, I be glad to post.

> I also happened to run across a a very brief slideshow for very beginning

> kidney dialysis patients from the Mayo web site (quite basic, but if anyone

has

> never seen PD or hemo set up it may be of interest although I'm sure there

> is probably many other sites as well which are most comprehensive). Bonnie

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the list, Bonnie. Very interesting.

~Dana

Re: : Centers of excellence for kidney disease

Hi ,

Have fun next week in my birth state. (Lived in Meriam) Em also went to

school in Kansas in a little town called Great Bend. Awesome school for

athletics (98% of the kids or something like that are all athletes).

The web site for the Best Hospitals 2004 is:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/hosptl/rankings/specihqneph.htm

That should get you directly to the neph page. There is also a section on the

methodology of the ratings, and of course if you want to check any other

specialties out, it's all in the same article.

To get to the Mayo page for new patients deciding about different forms of

dialysis :

Google.....Mayoclinic.com

on the far left column go to Health Centers

Click on on Diabetes Mellitus

then go to explore treatments

click on dialysis

understanding dialysis slide show PD versus hemo (or whatever interests you).

these articles are written at a very basic knowledge level, so hope not boring

for you, but someone else might find some useful info here too.

There's also a Table on 3 day versus 6 day per week treatment schedules for

hemo

I'm gonna dictate for a bit longer, then head home. Hope you have a good

night,. I hope and pray Kaiser will let you go where ever you want. Hopefully

your neph can help out in this arena as well. Bonnie

W4JC@... wrote:

Hi Bonnie,

Thanks for checking in on that. I had one conversation with the insurance

agent for my company, and she is checking into it but I have not heard back.

I

am going to Kansas to our corporate headquarters next week so I should find

out something then.

I would love the web addresses for the top 50 hospitals and the Mayo

beginning dialysis sites too if you have them handy.

Thanks and don't work too late! Get some rest this weekend!

In a message dated 12/3/2004 5:50:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,

bd4679@... writes:

> Hi ,

> Just wondering if you have heard anything about your insurance

> coverage/transplant and high quality centers for kidney disease.... I was

surfing around

> today and noticed an article from Best Hospitals 2004 from USNews. There is

a

> section for kidney disease and lists 4 hospitals in California which are

> considered on the top 50 best Hospitals list for kidney disease in the US.

> (They also include many other specialties as well). If you (or anyone on

site)

> is interested, I be glad to post.

> I also happened to run across a a very brief slideshow for very beginning

> kidney dialysis patients from the Mayo web site (quite basic, but if anyone

has

> never seen PD or hemo set up it may be of interest although I'm sure there

> is probably many other sites as well which are most comprehensive). Bonnie