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DCI Foundation Division

DCI operates as a not-for-profit corporation committed to investing in kidney care innovation and addressing gaps in care along the continuum of kidney health. The philanthropic initiatives of DCI’s Foundation Division are a critical part of our vision to empower people with kidney disease to live their best lives.

Nancy Johnson

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Your gifts help increase access to patient-centered care along the continuum of kidney health and empower people living with kidney disease to live their best lives. Click the button below to donate to one of our current initiatives. Thank you for your support!

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If you’re interested in making an online donation to support a specific clinic or learning about more ways to make a gift (including sending a check by mail), please see below. 

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Current Initiatives

Tillamook Kidney Center (Tillamook, Oregon)

In partnership with Adventist Health Tillamook, DCI reopened Tillamook’s dialysis center after it was closed by previous ownership in early 2024. The clinic closure created a significant burden for local patients. Without their neighborhood dialysis clinic, most patients had to drive 120 miles roundtrip to the nearest clinic for life-sustaining dialysis. While the benefit to patients and the community is clear, the Tillamook clinic will likely operate at a loss. Current reimbursement rates don’t cover the full cost of operating the clinic. Your gift in support of the Tillamook clinic helps ensure that dialysis care is accessible close to home for patients and their families.

Kidney Care in the US Virgin Islands (St. Croix, USVI)

Due to the devastating impacts of hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, the dialysis unit in the hospital on St. Croix sustained significant damage and could no longer provide dialysis care to those who need it. This resulted in many patients being displaced from their homes to receive dialysis on the mainland US, and those who remained on the island had to receive care in temporary trailers, which were not built to withstand storms long term. To address this gap in access to care, a partnership began between two local nephrologists in St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Healthcare Foundation, and DCI with the goal of creating a new permanent dialysis facility on St. Croix. Following a years-long collaboration that also included patient advocates and the larger community to bring the project to fruition, a new dialysis facility opened in early 2025 and currently provides high-quality kidney care for more than 30 people on the island. In addition to providing in-center dialysis services, DCI also hopes to help increase access to transplantation and home dialysis across the US Virgin Islands.  

Concurrent Hospice-Dialysis Program (Western Pennsylvania)

When dialysis patients approach the end of life, many face the difficult decision of choosing between stopping dialysis to receive hospice services or continuing dialysis treatments through the end of life. For patients with a primary diagnosis of kidney failure, the current Medicare Hospice Benefit does not cover the cost of both hospice and dialysis when provided at the same time. To eliminate this barrier and increase access to hospice services for people with kidney disease on dialysis, DCI, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and UPMC’s Family Hospice have partnered since 2018 to run the Concurrent Hospice-Dialysis Program in Western Pennsylvania. This collaborative program provides the option for patients to receive both hospice services and palliative dialysis treatments concurrently, granting patients and their families the ability to choose the care that works best for them on their terms. Additionally, the Concurrent Hospice-Dialysis Program aims to influence national policy to create a reimbursable hospice model that includes palliative dialysis, ensuring comprehensive and compassionate care for those with kidney disease.

Camp Okawehna (Middle Tennessee)

Camp Okawehna is a weeklong summer experience for children with kidney disease, including those with kidney transplants and children receiving dialysis. Each year, Camp O welcomes an average of 80 children aged 6 to 18 regardless of where they live and receive treatment. Campers participate in daily activities such as a ropes course, canoeing, swimming, crafts, concerts on the lawn, movie night, themed dances, a pine-wood derby car race, a luau, and a talent show. Camp O is the only kidney camp located in the state of Tennessee and one of the largest kidney camps in the country, welcoming children from across the US. Since its first year in 1975, Camp O has enabled hundreds of campers to participate in a joyous week of summer camp in a safe and welcoming environment. Learn more about Camp O here. 

Watch the Camp O 2025 Video

Dialysis Clinic, Inc. is recognized under section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code as a nonprofit organization (EIN: 62-0850498).

Contact the DCI Foundation Division

For more information about how to make a gift or to learn more about our initiatives, please contact us.