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DENVER, Might 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — DaVita Kidney Care shares its COVID-19 affected person training on DaVita.com/COVID. DaVita, recognized for delivering award-winning, multimedia kidney illness training, has invested in creating complete COVID-19 training for dialysis sufferers, some of the at-risk populations. Throughout a time of uncertainty and alter, these sources are empowering sufferers and serving to to maintain them secure.
“This can be a distressing and overwhelming time for dialysis sufferers, and DaVita is working onerous to assist sufferers really feel knowledgeable, supported and cared about,” mentioned Martha Wofford, group vice chairman for DaVita Kidney Care. “A few of our sufferers face important well being literacy challenges and creating academic supplies, like animated movies, that they’ll simply perceive is vital to empowering sufferers to remain secure.”
DaVita is maintaining sufferers knowledgeable about COVID-19 by communications and academic sources in 14 completely different languages throughout a number of channels and media, together with video. The sources cowl matters similar to what COVID-19 is, what DaVita is doing to assist preserve sufferers secure, how sufferers can keep away from hazards outdoors of the house and dialysis middle and what sufferers can do to assist preserve themselves and their households wholesome.
Along with web site content material, different affected person contact factors embody:
- DaVita care workforce members and physicians talking on to sufferers
- Academic handouts and posters inside DaVita facilities
- Animated movies that search to elucidate complicated and vital matters associated to COVID-19 in a simple to grasp means, similar to easy methods to correctly put on a masks, and assist overcome well being literacy challenges
- Informative letters and academic supplies despatched to sufferers’ houses
- Affected person hotline that sufferers can name and get solutions to their COVID-19 questions
- Use of telehealth platform, DaVita Care Join, to speak safely and remotely with sufferers treating at dwelling
- Publication of sources and solutions to questions associated to COVID-19 on DaVita’s social media channels
When requested about DaVita’s COVID-19 training, John Harris, a DaVita affected person from Littleton, Colorado, mentioned, “All of the training I’ve acquired has made me really feel secure and calmed my worries and issues. Between the handouts and conversations with the workers, I really feel very knowledgeable on the state of affairs. I actually respect the precautions DaVita is taking to assist preserve us secure.”
DaVita continues to solicit and pay shut consideration to affected person suggestions on how the corporate can improve its communications and higher assist sufferers throughout this unprecedented time.
To be taught extra about DaVita and its award-winning affected person sources, please go to DaVita.com/COVID.
About DaVita Inc.
DaVita (NYSE: DVA) is a well being care supplier centered on remodeling care supply to enhance high quality of life for sufferers globally. The corporate is likely one of the largest suppliers of kidney care companies within the U.S. and has been a pacesetter in medical high quality and innovation for greater than 20 years. By means of DaVita Kidney Care, the corporate treats sufferers with power kidney failure and finish stage kidney illness. DaVita is dedicated to daring, patient-centric care fashions, implementing the most recent applied sciences and shifting towards built-in care choices for all. By means of these efforts, DaVita has additionally turn into the most important supplier of dwelling dialysis within the nation. As of December 31, 2019, DaVita served 206,900 sufferers at 2,753 outpatient dialysis facilities in the USA. The corporate additionally operated 259 outpatient dialysis facilities in ten international locations worldwide. DaVita has decreased hospitalizations, improved mortality, and labored collaboratively to propel the kidney care trade to undertake an equitable and high-quality customary of look after all sufferers, all over the place. To be taught extra, go to DaVita.com/About.
Ahead-Trying Statements
All statements on this launch, apart from statements of historic truth, are forward-looking statements and as such are meant to be coated by the secure harbor for “forward-looking statements” offered by the Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based mostly on DaVita’s beliefs, expectations and assumptions, and all of those statements are topic to recognized and unknown dangers and uncertainties that would trigger the precise outcomes to vary materially from these described within the forward-looking statements. These dangers and uncertainties embody, amongst different issues, future impacts of the dynamic and quickly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, together with, with out limitation, on our sufferers, caregivers, teammates, suppliers, enterprise and operations, and penalties of an financial downturn ensuing from the impacts of COVID-19, any of which may materially and adversely have an effect on our enterprise, outcomes of operations, money flows, liquidity, monetary situation and, underneath sure circumstances, our fame, in addition to uncertainties described within the danger elements set forth in DaVita Inc.’s Annual Report on Kind 10-Ok for the 12 months ended December 31, 2019, and the dangers and uncertainties mentioned in any subsequent studies that DaVita information or furnishes with the Securities and Trade Fee infrequently.
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