• Patient Services
• Team Rocky Mountain
• Public Education
• Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP)
• Professional Education Research

Patient Services
Every year, over 4,000 patients receive Dialysis in our three state region of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. Improving the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by kidney and urinary tract diseases, as well as providing emotional support to transplant recipients and donor families, is at the heart of the Patient Services Program. Direct patient services include:

Kidney Camp:
Every summer patients join each other in a retreat atmosphere in the beautiful mountains of Colorado. Dialysis is provided to patients on site. The number of campers is roughly 75 patients and their family members. Please call our affilate for upcoming dates and details.

Medical Identification Jewelry:
Bracelets and necklaces are ordered for dialysis or transplant patients. Requests must be submitted by the patient's social worker.

Patient Emergency Financial Assistance Grants:
Emergency funds provided to supplement the cost of medications, treatment supplies, dental needs and transportation expenses. Requests must be submitted by the patient's social worker or renal professional.

Patient Picnics:
NKF delivers or assists in delivery of picnics in the summer time for dialysis and transplant patients. Over 350 individuals with kidney disease and their families attend these regional picnics. Contact our office if you're interested in attending or sponsoring a picnic in your area.

Thanksgiving Basket Delivery:
Families receive donations of food put together and delivered by volunteers. Food is donated through partnership with community food bank groups.

Team Rocky Mountain
U.S. Transplant Games:

The U.S. Transplant Games are a biennial, five-day athletic competition among recipients of life-saving transplants. Competition in the U.S. Transplant Games is open to anyone who has received a lifesaving transplant--heart, liver, kidney, lung, and pancreas. Bone marrow recipients are also eligible to participate. As much as the Games are an athletic event that calls attention to the success of organ and tissue transplantation, they are also a celebration of life among recipients, their families and friends. Donor Families gather for the Giving, Grieving, Growing™ classes and to cheer on the athletes. For more information, please go to www.transplantgames.org

In June 2006, 28 athletes traveled to Louisville, Kentucky.

The 2008 U.S. Transplant Games will be held in Pittsburgh, PA from July 11-16, 2008.

International Games:
In odd ending years, U.S. transplant recipients are invited to attend the International Games, which are sponsored by the World Transplant Games Federation. The WTGF is an association formed in 1987, with its head office in England. It has member associations in more than 60 countries. Its purpose is to organize the World Transplant Games every two years so that by their performances transplanted athletes can show the world how successful transplant surgery has become.

In July 2003, 5 athletes from Team NKF-CMW traveled to Nancy, France to compete.

In July 2005 the Games were held in London, Ontario Canada. Five atheletes from Team Rocky Mountain to particpate on Team USA.

In 2007 the Games are to be held August 25-September 3 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Professional Councils: Please visit www.kidney.org/professionals/.

Research
A major function of the National Kidney Foundation of Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming is to provide support for research that advances our understanding of kidney disease and may ultimately find cures and better treatments for these diseases. On a national level, the National Kidney Foundation is second only to the National Institutes of Health in its sponsorship of kidney and urologic research and training.