Sept. 9, 2024—Northwest Kidney Centers, a nonprofit outpatient dialysis provider with clinics in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Clallam counties, will open its newest clinic near downtown Seattle in early October.
Friends and supporters of Northwest Kidney Centers are invited to attend an open house at the facility from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The new state-of-the-art facility at 715 Alder Street in the Yesler Terrace community, is adjacent to Harborview Medical Center. To better serve patients near the downtown core, the flagship center consolidates operations from Northwest Kidney Centers’ Seattle clinics that were located at 700 Broadway, 600 Broadway, and 15th Ave. and Cherry Street.
Northwest Kidney Centers’ $57 million investment in its new kidney care center will ensure access for patients for generations to come. Designed to optimize patient care and safety, treatment areas will provide views of downtown Seattle and Elliott Bay, the off-street covered entryway will make for safer patient drop-off and pick-up, and the onsite garage will provide a secure parking option for patients and staff.
“This new center underscores our mission and deep commitment to investing in the downtown Seattle community, ensuring we remain close to those who need us most,” said Rebecca Fox, president and CEO of Northwest Kidney Centers. “We’ve been the premier nonprofit dialysis provider for more than 60 years, and with this new facility we are positioned to provide essential life-sustaining care to some of the most medically vulnerable patients in our community for years to come.”
The 68,300-square-foot building has 46 dialysis stations, nine home dialysis training rooms, and community-education space. Northwest Kidney Centers can serve more than 300 in-center dialysis patients, and provide training, education and monthly support to 125 patients who dialyze at home. Patients and their families will be able to access the organization’s first-in-the-nation kidney palliative care program at this location, as well as free classes that support those impacted by chronic kidney disease.
The clinic was designed by Mahlum Architects. Aldrich + Associates was the general contractor and Spectrum Development Solutions provided project management services.
Northwest Kidney Centers is a nonprofit, community-based provider of kidney dialysis, public health education and research into the causes and treatments of chronic kidney disease. Founded in Seattle in 1962, it was the world’s first outpatient dialysis organization and today is the eighth-largest dialysis provider in the United States, serving more than 2,000 patients a year in 19 dialysis centers and eight hospitals in the Puget Sound region.
Northwest Kidney Centers’ mission is to promote the optimal health, quality of life and independence of people with kidney disease. Its patients have access to the first-in-the-nation kidney palliative care program, as well as an outpatient pharmacy staffed by kidney specialists. Through its long-standing partnership with the University of Washington, Northwest Kidney Centers helped establish the Kidney Research Institute and the Center for Dialysis Innovation in support of new treatments and discoveries to better patients’ lives. For more information, visit www.nwkidney.org.
Dialysis is a treatment that removes wastes and fluid from the body when the kidneys no longer do. A person with kidney failure must get dialysis three times a week or more, or receive a kidney transplant, to stay alive.
Kidney disease often has no symptoms until it’s in a late stage and kidneys have been damaged. Among all adult Americans, 1 in 7 has the disease and many don’t realize it. Kidney disease has increased 30 percent in the last decade. The leading causes of chronic kidney disease are diabetes and high blood pressure. Tests to detect kidney disease are simple and inexpensive.
