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know your kidneys: news

Dec 41 min read

Crain's Chicago Business: Mark Schwartz Named Notable Nonprofit Board Leader

Nov 264 min read

Citizen Newspaper Group: Community comes out to Celebrate Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network Chatham’s Jackie D. Lynch Building site of open house

Nov 202 min read

Benesch Partner Juan Morado Jr. Named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2024 Notable Latino Leaders

Nov 141 min read

Loyola University Medicine: Holly Mattix-Kramer receives prestigious Harold & Molly Schwartz Founders' Award from National Kidney Foundation of Illinois

Nov 81 min read

NBC5 Chicago: ‘KidneyMobile' offering free screenings for Illinois residents

From NBC5 LeeAnn Trotter

Oct 281 min read

WGN-TV: National Kidney Foundation of Illinois celebrates 75th anniversary

From WGN-TV By Gabriel Castillo CHICAGO — The National Kidney Foundation of Illinois supports over 60,000 patients and people at risk of...

Oct 151 min read

WBBM Newsradio: Chicago Marathon runners raise close to $100K for kidney research, screenings

Oct 42 min read

La Raza: El Mes Binacional de Salud comienza en Chicago con jornadas de vacunación, exámenes de salud preventiva gratuitos y más

Sep 163 min read

Scams Involving Kidney Donation

Aug 302 min read

IPHA Spotlight: NKFI CHW Jowanna Whitfield named CHW of the Year

Aug 262 min read

Public Now: Hundreds served at Hunter’s 20th annual health fair

Aug 124 min read

NBC News: Adding stem cells to a kidney transplant could get patients off anti-rejection drugs, trial finds

Aug 122 min read

McKnight's Women of Distinction: Meet Amanda Tilton, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee

From McKnights.com Editor’s Note: McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Home Care are profiling the ...

Aug 12 min read

ABC7 Chicago: Black patients move up kidney transplant waitlist in Illinois after race removed from blood test

Jul 253 min read

Weekly Citizen: Loretto Hospital Hosts Vital Blood Drive and Health Screenings to Support Chicago’s African American Community

Jul 162 min read

Health News Illinois: DIALYSIS PATIENT CITIZENS ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-THE-NATION KIDNEY DISEASE TRAINING CURRICULUM FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS

From Health News Illinois Today, Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC), the nation’s largest non-profit advocacy organization for dialysis...

Jun 215 min read

NKFI Mourns 'Giant in the field of hypertension' Dr. George Bakris

Jun 101 min read

Fox32: Thousands gather for 25th annual Walk for Kidneys, raise over $264K

Jun 100 min read

CBS2: 25th annual Walk for Kidneys fundraiser held in Diversey Harbor in Chicago

Jun 42 min read

The Hometown Register: Carle Richland Memorial Hospital partners with National Kidney Foundation of Illinois to offer free health screening

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know your kidneys: news

Crain's Chicago Business: Mark Schwartz Named Notable Nonprofit Board Leader

Citizen Newspaper Group: Community comes out to Celebrate Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network Chatham’s Jackie D. Lynch Building site of open house

Benesch Partner Juan Morado Jr. Named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ 2024 Notable Latino Leaders

Loyola University Medicine: Holly Mattix-Kramer receives prestigious Harold & Molly Schwartz Founders' Award from National Kidney Foundation of Illinois

NBC5 Chicago: ‘KidneyMobile' offering free screenings for Illinois residents

WGN-TV: National Kidney Foundation of Illinois celebrates 75th anniversary

WBBM Newsradio: Chicago Marathon runners raise close to $100K for kidney research, screenings

La Raza: El Mes Binacional de Salud comienza en Chicago con jornadas de vacunación, exámenes de salud preventiva gratuitos y más

Scams Involving Kidney Donation

IPHA Spotlight: NKFI CHW Jowanna Whitfield named CHW of the Year

Public Now: Hundreds served at Hunter’s 20th annual health fair

NBC News: Adding stem cells to a kidney transplant could get patients off anti-rejection drugs, trial finds

McKnight's Women of Distinction: Meet Amanda Tilton, 2024 Hall of Honor inductee

ABC7 Chicago: Black patients move up kidney transplant waitlist in Illinois after race removed from blood test

Weekly Citizen: Loretto Hospital Hosts Vital Blood Drive and Health Screenings to Support Chicago’s African American Community

Health News Illinois: DIALYSIS PATIENT CITIZENS ANNOUNCES FIRST-IN-THE-NATION KIDNEY DISEASE TRAINING CURRICULUM FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS

NKFI Mourns 'Giant in the field of hypertension' Dr. George Bakris

Fox32: Thousands gather for 25th annual Walk for Kidneys, raise over $264K

CBS2: 25th annual Walk for Kidneys fundraiser held in Diversey Harbor in Chicago

The Hometown Register: Carle Richland Memorial Hospital partners with National Kidney Foundation of Illinois to offer free health screening

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