Alonzo Mourning, Kidney Community Ask Congress to Support Key Reforms to Improve Patient Access and Choice in Kidney Care.Former NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= All-Star Mourning Joins Kidney Care Partners and National Kidney Foundation Not to be confused with American Kidney Fund. The National Kidney Foundation, Inc. (NKF) is a major voluntary health organization in the United States. Its mission is to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and in Advancing Common-Sense Policy Reforms to Help America's Nearly 500,000 Kidney Failure Patients WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, October 7, NBA champion and kidney transplant recipient Alonzo Mourning will join Kidney Care Partners (KCP KCP Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan KCP Khmer Citizen Party (Cambodia) KCP Kingston Computer Planet KCP knurling cup point (fasteners) KCP Kernel Control Path ), the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Kidney Fund The American Kidney Fund (AKF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1971. In 2006, the American Kidney Fund provided $81.9 million in financial assistance to 65,000 dialysis and transplant patients in the United States. (AKF) in asking Congress to support key healthcare reforms that will improve patients' access and choice in receiving quality kidney care. Mourning, member of the 2006 NBA Championship-winning Miami Heat, seven-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, was diagnosed with Focal Glomerulosclerosis, a degenerative kidney disease, in 2000. After receiving a kidney transplant in 2003, he returned to the NBA for five more seasons, retiring in 2008. Mourning is now a passionate advocate for America's kidney patients on the need to support chronic kidney disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD), also know as chronic renal disease, is a progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years through five stages. Each stage is a progression through an abnormally low and progressively worse glomerular filtration rate, which is (CKD) education, prevention and care. The educational briefing will address: * The rising epidemic of CKD - which affects approximately 26 million American adults - and end stage renal disease (ESRD ESRD end-stage renal disease. ESRD End-stage renal disease; chronic or permanent kidney failure. Mentioned in: Dialysis, Kidney ESRD End-stage renal disease, see there ), and their disproportionate impact on minority populations * First-hand patient experiences with Medicare's ESRD program * The need to reform the ESRD benefit to increase patient choice and access, enhance coordination in care, address preventable health complications and improve health care outcomes * How Congress can help patients gain greater choice in care - while creating $1 billion in savings to Medicare - by extending their option to maintain private insurance coverage longer * The benefits of extending Medicare coverage for immunosuppressive drugs [TABLE OMITTED] |
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