Kidney Clinics

Kidney clinics provide education, support and counseling to patients who have Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and their families.

Services include individual and group self-management classes, nutritional counselling and personal lifestyle counseling. The interdisciplinary team includes:

• nurses,
• social workers,
• dietitian and
• pharmacist.

The goals of the team in cooperation with kidney specialist are to:

• Help patients delay the progression of kidney disease.
• Educate patients and their families about treatment choices for chronic kidney disease (peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, home hemodialysis and kidney transplantation or end of life care).
• Encourage a healthy lifestyle.
• Provide support to patients and their families.