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Each August, individuals, businesses and organizations across the country recognize National Minority Donor Awareness Month, a collaborative effort to save and improve the lives of diverse communities by creating a positive culture for organ, tissue and eye donation. As part of this effort, the movement highlights disparities that persist in the field of organ donation…

The definition of sick. That’s how Simon Keith, a kidney transplant recipient and one of the longest-living heart transplant recipients in the world, describes being on dialysis. “It’s hard to eat properly. It’s hard to think straight. Everything is more challenging on dialysis,” says Keith. The former professional soccer player received his first heart transplant…

It’s no secret that strong employee retention provides numerous benefits, from reduced costs and improved company culture to a better customer experience and higher revenue. While there are many strategies to drive employee retention, more benefits managers are seeing the value of supporting healthcare benefits that provide real solutions to serious illnesses such as chronic…

Knowing whether your employees are at a higher risk for chronic kidney disease could help you cut current and future costs – and save lives. Today in the United States, one in seven Americans is living with chronic kidney disease. Patients who are at a higher risk for CKD include those with diabetes, pre-diabetes and…

Benefits managers who invest in transplantation not only provide better care for their employees but also better care for the planet. Today in the United States, one in seven adults is living with chronic kidney disease. As this disease progresses, these patients will find themselves with only two options to survive: dialysis or a kidney…

As the saying goes, receiving is harder than giving. It’s a phenomenon Susan Rees has witnessed firsthand. As the chief clinical officer of Rejuvenate Kidney Transplant Solutions, she helps people navigate the complex path to a lifesaving kidney transplant. Rees says many people with chronic kidney disease face emotional barriers to accepting an organ from…

While the burden of kidney failure, also known as End-Stage Renal Disease or ESRD, can vary due to the size of a company, there’s one fact that remains the same: most self-insured employers are unnecessarily paying more than $500k per affected employee. Mark Snyder, former benefits director and current chief financial officer at Rejuvenate Kidney Transplant…

Alan Phillips knows firsthand the impact a benefits manager can have on the life of a person with kidney disease. In 2019, Phillips received a kidney transplant after his benefits director at Owens Corning, a global manufacturer based out of Toledo, Ohio, connected with the team at Rejuvenate Kidney Transplant Solutions. “I feel better,” says…

There comes a time when a patient with chronic kidney disease must receive dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. This stage, known as end-stage renal failure or ESRD, is the final, permanent stage of chronic kidney disease. Chronic kidney disease progresses from stage 1 to stage 6, increasing in its severity. While patients in stages…

Most self-insured employers don’t realize how common kidney disease is among their employees nor how much they’re paying – unnecessarily – to treat it. Today in America, one in seven adults is living with chronic kidney disease. As the disease progresses, these husbands, wives, friends and colleagues – 96% of whom don’t yet know they…