Clyde Shields Distinguished Service Award

Northwest Kidney Centers' Clyde Shields Service Award is given to people who make significant contributions to the welfare of kidney patients through advocacy, clinical care, or research.

It is the highest honor Northwest Kidney Centers bestows to a non-nephrologist.

The Clyde Shields Award is named after the world’s first patient to live on maintenance hemodialysis. Mr. Shields had his first treatment at the University of Washington Hospital March 9, 1960.

2011 Awardee Gladys Rubinstein Through her generous donations, Seattle philanthropist Gladys Rubinstein is improving care for thousands of dialysis patients. Read more...

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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.