Hi, my name is Chris and I've been a member of DialysisEthics since
2000 and I help coordinate the activities of this patient advocacy organization.

The website has been down for awhile but we believe this has
been an excellent time to bring it back. (Click_for_more_Intro)

DialysisEthics has always been a leader in improving patient care through
advocacy: sometimes using legislative and legal means to improve
overall conditions, sometimes doing individual patient advocacy. We aim
to continue that tradition.

We were there when no one else was advocating for nonviolent
dismissed patients - not the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, not
the Renal Networks, and not the National Kidney Foundation. We also have
consistently pointed out the problems we saw with kidney dialysis. The
following is a list of our accomplishments over the years:

*2000 US Senate hearings - after the hearing President Clinton allocated
more money for dialysis center inspections and dialysis workers became
part of the inspection teams

*Verified statistics now back up the information on Medicare's "Dialysis
Facility Compare"

*Doctors have to review charts before they can be reimbursed


*Responsible for getting reports started by the Office of Inspector
General (OIG) in 2000 and 2003 on the conditions in dialysis

*Many current members of DialysisEthics were responsible for starting
and helping push through a bill for the certification of hemodialysis
technicians in Colorado in 2007

*There have been many nonviolent dismissed patients returned to their
clinics or placed in other clinics or hospitals over the years - as recently
as this year

We are entering a new chapter of DialysisEthics. In the past we have
advocated and brought many of the problems in this field of medicine to
light. The problems are well-documented and in the hands of many of
the right people. We have a long ways to go, but we believe things are
getting better and will continue to get better. We now want to be part of
the solutions we see coming.

Chris Schwab
DialysisEthics.org LLC