CentraCare Kidney Program offers a full range of kidney services within St. Cloud Hospital, CentraCare Clinic and sites throughout Central Minnesota. The program delivers safe, effective and high-quality care close to home.

Why choose CentraCare for your kidney care?

Commitment to Quality

• Member of the Renal Network to benchmark outcomes against other programs in the Midwest
• Achieved 5-Diamond Patient Safety status, the highest status given by Renal Network 11, for all CentraCare dialysis outpatient sites and its home therapy program
• Higher survival and transplant rates than expected for CentraCare Kidney Program - Health Plaza Dialysis in data released in spring 2012 by Pro-Publica, an investigative journalism group
• Experienced team with more than 50,000 outpatient dialysis treatments a year throughout Central Minnesota

Caring, Skilled Professionals
The kidney program team includes:

• Nephrologists - board-certified subspecialists who care for patients with acute and chronic kidney disease
• Nursing staff - registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and patient care technicians with specialized training and certification in kidney disease
• Others - renal dietitians, social workers, educators, pharmacists, holistic services specialist and spiritual care

Full Scope of Nephrology Practice
Nephrologists care for patients with:

• Acute kidney injury
• Chronic kidney disease
• Anemia of renal disease
• Hypertension
• Electrolyte disorders
• Kidney transplant evaluation and management
• Metabolic evaluation of recurrent kidney stones

Broad Range of Kidney Program Services
Peritoneal Dialysis
Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Continuous cycler peritoneal dialysis
Acute peritoneal dialysis
Hemodialysis
Home hemodialysis
In-center nocturnal hemodialysis
In-center hemodialysis
Acute hemodialysis
Chronic Kidney Disease Management
Kidney Transplant Services
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE)
Aquapheresis

Multiple Locations
For your convenience, our program offers both clinic consultations with a nephrologist and dialysis centers within the following Central Minnesota communities:

Education
In-service training and education are available for patients, community members and professional caregivers.

For More Information
For a dialysis appointment, please call (320) 251-2700, ext. 24552 or (800) 835-6652, ext. 24552. For an appointment with a nephrologist, please call (320) 240-2206.