Building the Future of Kidney Care
Our mission is to minimize the devastating impacts of kidney disease across the full spectrum of kidney health care – and we could not achieve our mission without the commitment of our remarkable frontline, caregiving teammates.
Skilled, compassionate, life-sustaining care from teammates around the world.
Visionary innovation to shape the future of tomorrow’s kidney health care.
A commitment to improving our communities through increased kidney health awareness and education.
Patients Come First
The best way to combat kidney disease is to prevent it. That’s why we invest in kidney health education on topics such as diet and exercise, early screenings and more. For people with end stage kidney disease (ESKD), we’re champions for life-saving transplantation.
Kidney disease affects more than one in seven U.S. adults, or an estimated 37 million Americans.1 For the more than 780,000 people living with ESKD, consistent dialysis treatment or kidney transplant are the only ways to sustain life.
Whole-Person Care on the Transplant Journey
For Kimberly, the support of her “DaVita family” made all the difference while waiting for a transplant.
Clinical Excellence
Clinical excellence is the bedrock of effective care. We embrace the complexities of whole-person health care with a focus on evidence-based innovation and measurement, all in pursuit of optimal outcomes and elevated quality of life.
Our Clinical Approach: Our holistic care framework prioritizes personalized, patient-centric care and continuous improvement.
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Tackling Kidney Disease at the Source
Our Goal: Transplant for All Who Can Benefit
Impact
Chronic kidney disease disproportionately affects many communities of color, including our Black and Hispanic or Latino patient populations, which puts DaVita in a unique position to drive positive change.
Sector-wide data demonstrates that, too often, disparities continue as patients advance through end stage kidney disease. We’re proud that our patients largely achieve similar outcomes across race in core clinical metrics such as hospitalizations, readmissions and infection rates in our U.S. outpatient dialysis centers. With our health equity commitment, we continue to work to reduce other disparities.
Our health equity strategy encompasses three focus areas:
A Perspective on Equity from Our CMO
As published in Catalyst, a publication of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Supporting Equity through Food Security
Learn about our work with the Food is Medicine Coalition.
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Caring through Corporate Citizenship
Visit our 2022 Community Care Report, which highlights our continued commitment to social responsibility and sustainability.
A Place Where Everyone Belongs
Driving Innovation
Our DaVita Venture Group works to transform the future of patient care by building partnerships with leading health care innovators.
Leveraging technology to revolutionize home dialysis and help improve the lives of kidney care patients around the world.
Offering game-changing software that helps streamline the transplant process from recipient candidate evaluation through donor and recipient follow-up.
On a mission to help eliminate the transplant waitlist by bioengineering fully transplantable human organs.
Education Changes Lives
We’re building the future of kidney care with a focus on education, prevention and quality of life. And, it turns out, that passion is contagious.
1https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease#:~:text=Nearly%20786%2C000%20people%20in%20the,29%25%20with%20a%20kidney%20transplant.