Social Worker Services

Learning how to manage your life with dialysis can be overwhelming at first, but it is still possible to thrive. Our social workers provide a broad range of services, including:

Coordination of Resources and Referrals

• Facilitation of community agency referrals, such as home care services and physical, occupational, or speech therapies
• Providing information and referrals (including candidacy for kidney transplant, home dialysis, and peritoneal dialysis)
• Coordinating dialysis with patients’ work schedules or vocational rehabilitation
• Assisting with travel or transient treatment arrangements
• Assisting with resource needs, including finances, living arrangements, and transportation

Counseling and Advocacy

• Advocacy on patients’ behalf within the setting and with appropriate local, state and federal agencies and programs
• Aiding patients in adjusting to chronic illness and treatment as they relate to the patients’ quality of life
• Providing counseling and/or referrals for physical, sexual, and emotional relationship problems
• Educational, vocational, and activity of daily living problems
• Conflict resolution
• Problems related to treatment options and setting transfers
• Decision making with regard to advance directives and end of life concerns