For Health Partners

Kidney Wellness Hub is here to HELP YOU support your kidney patients and their families.

The Kidney Foundation has created the Kidney Wellness Hub as a FREE interactive online resource to help support the physical, mental and social wellbeing of YOUR kidney patients and their care partners as well as living donors. The Kidney Wellness Hub contains customized content, tools and activities to benefit all kidney patients across the continuum of care, wherever they are on their kidney journey. 

We wanted to create a page just for our Health Care Partners to make it easy to download and share the Kidney Wellness Hub with your kidney families. It will be of particular importance to the most vulnerable kidney patients who may need additional wellness support and the newly diagnosed where maintaining a healthy lifestyle is critical to their ability to help slow the progression of the disease or even avoid kidney failure. 

It is important to note that information contained on the site is NOT medical but is intended to complement the advice and support of you, as their health care provider. We also recognize that a lot of valuable wellness content already exists so we have included a section for trusted Resources. One of the ways we keep things relevant is by creating new classes and Events as the community identifies their wellness needs.

We hope you see the Kidney Wellness Hub as a valuable tool to help you support your patients and their families. Please feel free to share or post the downloadable Kidney Wellness Hub poster with your patients.

What can you expect to find on the Kidney Wellness Hub?

Each section in the area of Staying Active, Eating Well, Mental Wellbeing, and Socially Connecting has tips and tools , as well as on-demand videos or live classes, a chance to “ask the expert” questions and submit a request for specific information or content. One of the ways we keep the Kidney Wellness Hub relevant is by developing new events and classes. There are many other opportunities to engage with others and learn about living well with kidney disease here at the Kidney Wellness Hub on our Events page. We also include any wellness events that are being featured by anyone throughout Canada. If you know of a wellness-related event that you feel should be listed here please forward the details to us and we’ll be happy to include it.

We do not want to recreate or duplicate the many excellent resources that already exist to support the overall health and wellbeing of your patients. The Resources page contains links to some additional trusted wellness content and information from key kidney stakeholder agencies. We know this is just a starting point and will continue to add to this list. If you are aware of other wellness resources you think would be helpful to kidney patients and caregivers, we encourage you to email us at kidnewellnesshub@kidney.ca.

Building a Kidney Community

The Kidney Wellness Hub is about building an inclusive and welcoming space, where patients and caregivers can come together and build a sense of community virtually. Additional content will continuously be added to the Kidney Wellness Hub including content that reflects our diverse kidney community, such as content in other languages to help reach those disproportionately affected by kidney disease. We want every family living with kidney disease to know there is a network of support out there, beyond the amazing care you provide from the medical side, to help them live well with kidney disease. After all there is no cure for kidney disease, it’s something they live with for life. Of course, this means that you as the health care partner are with them for life too.

So, please JOIN UP and join us, become a member of the Kidney Wellness Hub community today!  You are an integral part of OUR kidney community, and we value your input as we build and grow.

About the Kidney Foundation

The Kidney Wellness Hub is just one of the many critical programs and services offered by the Kidney Foundation to support kidney patients.  Learn more about the impacts The Kidney Foundation makes here.

The Kidney Foundation has a wealth of information and educational resources that may also be beneficial. These include two kidney patient manuals: Living with Reduced Kidney Function and Living with Kidney Failure and an Information Hot Line at 604 558 6879 where patients can speak directly to staff in our Programs and Services area. Although we do not provide medical advice, we can answer questions patients may have about their diagnosis. For more information on how we support kidney patients go to kidney.ca.

As the key non-profit in Canada serving the kidney community, the Kidney Foundation has been a trusted resource for over 60 years to kidney patients and caregivers. We offer critical programs and services, support research, and promote public awareness. For more information on the Kidney Foundation and its resources, please go to kidney.ca.

The Foundation also works in close collaboration and partnership with renal health professionals, and renal organizations including BC Renal, BC Transplant, Can-SOLVE and the health authority renal programs to empower those with kidney disease to optimize their health status. In an effort to reach newly diagnosed patients, the Kidney Foundation has connected with Division of Family Practice groups across BC and spoken directly to hundreds of family practitioners and nurse practitioners about the Foundation.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, need additional information or have ideas for future content, please email kidneywellnesshub@kidney.ca.