Dedicated to End-of-Life Care for Kidney Patients
Mission: To promote effective interchange between patients, families, caregivers, payers, and providers in support of integrated patient-centered end-of-life care of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients.

Presentations

The following PowerPoint presentations have been shared by Coalition members and are available for others to use. Appropriate credit is always appreciated.

• End Stage Renal Disease: When Is It Time for Hospice? (PowerPoint Slide Presentation) This presentation addresses the Medicare hospice benefit available to ESRD patients. Presented to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization in May 2007, this presentation has 3 components:

  1. Introducation & Background, presented by Perry Fine, MD
  2. ICD-9-CM 585.6 End Stage Renal Disease, presented by Harry Feliciano, MD, MPH. This presentation addresses coding and payment and is directed at hospice agencies (for companion case study, click this link: ICF-Enhanced ESRD Case Scenario (PDF))
  3. The Hospice-ESRD Patient-Dialysis Center Interface, presented by Malene Davis, RN, MSN, MBA
     
• Did this patient die with hospice? New questions in caring for patients with ESRD, presented by Lewis Cohen, MD, and Malene Davis, RN, MSN, MBA (Slide Presentation PDF)
• Hospice in ESRD: To Withdraw or Not to Withdraw, presented by Rebecca Schmidt, DO, FACP (Slide Presentation PDF)
• Advance Care Planning Jean Holley, MD
• Best Practices for End-of-life Care for Dialysis Patients, Wendy Funk Schrag, LMSW, ACSW and Barbara Weaner, MSN, FNP
• End-of-Life Issues for End Stage Renal Disease Patients, Wendy Funk Schrag, LMSW, ACSW
• Pain Management in ESRD, Alvin Moss, MD
• Palliative Care for the ESRD Patient, Alvin Moss, MD