For Health Partners

The Kidney Wellness Hub contains customized content, tools and activities to help anyone protect their kidney health across the continuum of care, and is a resource for health care professionals to share.

Downloadable PDF Poster to share with your patients and their families.

For Our Healthcare Partners

We’ve created this dedicated page to make it easy for you to share the Kidney Wellness Hub with patients and families. The Hub offers trusted, easy-to-understand resources to support a healthy lifestyle, critical for slowing disease progression and protecting kidney health.

It’s especially helpful for newly diagnosed or vulnerable patients who may feel overwhelmed and in need of extra support.

The content is designed to complement your care, not replace it. We’ve also included a section with additional trusted wellness resources.

Feel free to download and share the Kidney Wellness Hub poster with your patients or display it in your clinic.

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

Each page has tips and tools for that area, as well as on-demand videos, sessions or 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 and hosting online webinars.

Join the 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.

Kidney Wellness Hub Features

  • Staying Active

    On-demand videos curated to different fitness levels and stages of kidney disease whether that’s low mobility exercises or yoga, cardio, dance, strength training etc.

  • Eating Well

    Customized kidney-friendly meal options and cooking classes that reflect the different needs of our kidney community in addition to celebrating diverse culinary traditions.

  • Mental Wellbeing

    Many tips and tools plus an opportunity to be part of our free Kidney Wellness Coaching pilot program with a trained Wellness Coach who is also a renal social worker.

  • Socially Connecting

    Offers patient, care partners and living organ donor engagement opportunities to foster the sharing of lived experiences and encourage the building of a community of peers.

  • Online Classes

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  • Resources

    This page contains links to trusted wellness content and information from key stakeholder agencies.

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.