In addition to professional education and best-practice sharing during our spring and fall annual meetings, we celebrate our top-performing clinics and their teams, highlighting top patient-education efforts, as well as marking milestone anniversaries of our team. During our Spring Meeting, we focus on our Home Therapies and Social Work teams, gathering staff from more than 240 clinics across 30 states, in addition to our clinic and corporate leadership teams.
We congratulate our top performing Home Therapies programs for their dedication to excellence in providing the best care for our patients.
DCI Darwin Peterson Award Winner
“Indianapolis has an amazing home therapies team who routinely goes above and beyond to provide exemplary care for our patients, empowering them to live their best lives,” said Jeff Kennedy, DCI Senior Operations Director. “They are most deserving of the DCI Darwin Award. Our Indianapolis nurses lead a strong interdisciplinary team that truly embodies DCI’s mission by serving their patients within the clinic and supporting the patients as they dialyze in their homes.”
To be considered for the Darwin Award, clinics must be a Star Award recipient, and were also rated based on percentages of patients receiving the flu vaccination within one year; patients on the UNOS waiting list for a transplant; patients gained or lost in the past year; patients with semi-annual technique review by direct inspection; patients hospitalized versus the number of treatment days; non-relapsing peritonitis episodes per patient days; and mortality rates per 1,000 patient days.
DCI Star Clinics
We celebrate our 40 Star Award clinics, top performing Home Therapies programs based on their peritonitis rates, patients on the transplant waiting lists and medical reconciliation.
Congratulations to the following 2025 Star Award Recipients!
DCI Poster Contest
DCI’s spring meeting included a poster contest for clinics educating their patients about all things kidney disease and dialysis. We applaud the creativity of DCI employees highlighting pertinent topics for our patients. Congratulations to DCI Crowley, La., for Originality/Creativity for its PD Time Machine; to DCI Shreveport, La., for Visual Appeal for Defying Infection; and to DCI Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pa., for Importance to Patient for its Home Therapies Family Feud.
Congratulations to DCI Hempfield Social Worker Jill Kratochvil for 25 years of loyal service to her patients and for fulfilling our mission within her Jeannette, Pa., clinic.
We celebrate DCI Syracuse, N.Y., Social Worker Jill Bourbon for her dedicated 20 years of service to her patients.
We are grateful to DCI Home Training of Middle Tennessee Area Operations Director Cheryl Conquest for more than 39 years of loyal service to patients in Nashville, Tenn.
