Northwest Kidney Centers (NKC), based in the Seattle, Washington, area, offers dialysis and related kidney services, and has been a leader in kidney disease research (renal disease research). The organization was formerly named Northwest Kidney Center and Seattle Artificial Kidney, and integrated with the Northwest Kidney Foundation in 1987. Some also refer to Northwest Kidney Centers as NW Kidney Centers.

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Join us at the Kidney Health Fest

Join us June 2 for the 10th annual Kidney Health Fest for African American Families, featuring free health screenings, entertainment and healthy food samples made by local celebrity chefs.

Kidney Research Institute will test wearable artificial kidney

The Kidney Research Institute is part of a team selected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct the first U.S. trial of a wearable artificial kidney for safety and effectiveness in Seattle.

Northwest Kidney Centers keeps people in the Seattle area alive with dialysis care, educates the public about kidney health, and collaborates with UW Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute. We are one of very few community-based, nonprofit dialysis providers in the country. Founded in 1962, ours was the first out-of-hospital dialysis program in the world and it is still a model in the field.

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