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Bobbe Bridge

Surgeons removed Bobbe Bridge’s walnut-sized kidney when she was 10 years old. She still isn’t sure what caused her kidney to fail.

That early bout with kidney problems led the former Washington Supreme Court justice to step up to support Northwest Kidney Centers as a member of the Foundation board of trustees from 2003 to 2009 and, with her husband, Jon Bridge, to pledge $30,000 toward kidney research.

"I became an admirer of Northwest Kidney Centers and began to learn about how groundbreaking the work is that they’ve done here with dialysis and everything else," she said. "I found what a great opportunity it was to help with what I care about."


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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.