Kent Kidney Center

Daniel Hu, MD (Medical Director)
Jane Davis, RN (Clinical Director) 

 

Directions to Kent Kidney Center:

25316 74th Ave. S., Suite 101
Kent, WA 98032

Traveling north or south on I-5:

• Take Exit 149 (WA-516 eastbound).
• Follow signs onto WA-516/Kent Des Moines Road.

Traveling north or south on Highway 167:

• Take exit onto WA-516 Willis St.
• Follow signs onto WA-516/Kent Des Moines Road.

Then:

• Turn right onto 74th Ave. S.
• The center is on the left/east side of the street.

Map from Google

Facts About Kent Kidney Center

• The Kent Kidney Center is the 13th dialysis unit of Northwest Kidney Centers. It includes 10 community dialysis stations and seven special care dialysis stations. The facility opened in several stages, beginning Dec. 17, 2008.

• Special care is an outpatient treatment service for dialysis patients who are unstable and fragile, on a temporary or permanent basis, because of complicated physical, medical, psychiatric or cognitive conditions.

• Before the Kent Kidney Center opened, special care patients were treated only at Haviland Kidney Center on First Hill in Seattle. To better serve its most medically fragile patients who live in south King County, Northwest Kidney Centers moved seven of its First Hill special care beds to the new Kent facility, significantly reducing patient travel.

• With the opening of the special care unit at Kent Kidney Center, all of Northwest Kidney Centers’ specialized services are available in South King County. These include isolation and home hemodialysis training (SeaTac), peritoneal dialysis training (multiple sites), and special care (Kent).

• Special care is a community benefit program of Northwest Kidney Centers, which incurs annual unpaid costs of more than $2 million for it. Special care includes a chaplaincy program, referrals for ethics and palliative care consultations, and coordination of care with hospice services.

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.