Beyond the Walls of the Exam Room

As a Chronic kidney Disease (CKD) patient you depend on nephrologist to tell you how to plan for your future and what your best options for renal replacement choices. You receive information about dialysis and transplant, yet, there simply isn’t enough time in any given appointment to peel back the layers on the unparalleled difference between the two. Education materials are valuable, but they only seems to scratch the surface on the risks and benefits of (and comparisons between) dialysis and transplant. Moreover, there is little incentive to learn more and plan for your future in advance. Because of this, poor timing can often take your best options off the table.  

Optimal Timing

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now require all dialysis companies to provide transplant education to their patients, the information is often too brief or ambiguous to inspire the patient to action, especially when it is taught while patients are dialyzing.  In order to make CKD patient education more inclusive and powerful, it needs to include (1) Optimal timing of delivery,  (2) Risk/benefit comparisons, and (3) Patient empowerment strategies to help transplant candidates end the wait by becoming their own living kidney donor champion.

The Missing Link

The missing link in CMS’s dialysis patient education model is that it only addresses the needs of those who have already relinquished (unknowingly, and of no fault of their own) their right to receive a transplant before they required dialysis. And though this mandate is vitally important for the future of all transplant eligible dialysis patients, it pales in comparison to the need to deliver patient education long before dialysis would be required. Once the patient understands the incomparable advantage of circumventing dialysis before transplantation, they’re instinctively drawn to seek transplant before dialysis whenever possible.

The Solution

To solve this dilemma, The Proactive Path offers patient empowerment seminars, webinars, master coaching and self-help books to help patients achieve their goals and secure optimal outcomes.

The Proactive Path Allows Patients to Take a Deeper Dive Into Their Future

By Providing Insight & Strategies to Help Them Thrive, Not Just Survive.