KfH Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation
| KfH Board of Trustees for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation eV | |
|---|---|
| legal form | non-profit association |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat | Neu-Isenburg , Germany |
| management | |
| Number of employees | 7,000 |
| sales | > 500 million . EUR |
| Branch | Health care, transplant medicine |
| Website | https://www.kfh.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
The KfH Kuratorium for Dialysis and Kidney Transplantation eV , based in Neu-Isenburg , is a non-profit association ; its members are predominantly doctors ( nephrologists ).
KfH created the care structures for the treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease in Germany. In addition, there are around twice as many patients who are cared for in the KfH consultation hours for people with chronic kidney disease and kidney transplant patients. The KfH endeavors to make dialysis superfluous either through early detection or preventive treatment of kidney and hypertension diseases and diabetes mellitus (prevention) or through a kidney transplant.
history
The association was founded on October 7, 1969 as a board of trustees for home dialysis and created the necessary conditions to gradually introduce nationwide dialysis treatment in Germany. In 1973 the association set up the first outpatient dialysis centers in close cooperation with clinics. The first KfH children's dialysis center was established in 1977. In 1982, the association, in cooperation with the leading associations of the statutory health insurance companies, implemented the nationwide introduction of the procedure for contact-free kidney stone fragmentation (lithotripsy).
The German Foundation for Organ Transplantation (DSO) was founded in 1984. The organizational structures created by the KfH since 1976 for kidney transplantation were thus expanded to include the entire field of organ transplantation. In 1989, the association provided emergency aid in the new federal states to ensure that patients with kidney disease were cared for there as well.
KfH's own medical quality assurance system Quality in Nephrology [QiN] was introduced in 1999.
In 2002, as part of the reorganization of the care of patients with kidney disease, the KfH Kidney Centers received long-term care contracts which, in addition to the medical treatment of dialysis patients, also include measures to prevent terminal kidney failure and to prepare for and follow-up transplantation. In 2007, the KfH sponsored the first medical care centers in Hanover and Aue to provide comprehensive care for patients with kidney disease.
The KfH has its own training center which, according to its own statements, offers industry-independent advanced training courses in order to pass on the knowledge it has gained to a wide variety of professional groups who are involved in the care process for patients with kidney disease.
The CEO of KfH has been Dieter Bach since 2013 . KfH has developed into the largest dialysis provider in Germany (as of 2013) and employs around 7,000 people in 211 treatment centers with sales of over 500 million euros. Around 20,000 dialysis patients are cared for in the treatment centers.
The KfH runs the Fürth Dialysis Museum as the only facility of its kind in Germany.
Treatment centers
Number (as of 2017):
- Kidney centers = 185
- Kidney Centers for Children and Adolescents = 16
- Medical prevention centers = 22
Foundations
- KfH Foundation for Preventive Medicine - founded in 2005 with the aim of promoting scientific, clinical research projects on kidney diseases.
- KfH Foundation Emergency Aid for Kidney Sufferers - founded in 2001 with the aim of helping people with kidney disease in economic emergencies.
Subsidiary GML
In 2001 the subsidiary GML Aktiengesellschaft for medical technology and logistics management developed from the then technical department of KfH. Today, GML is a nationwide service company that has over 36,000 medical devices in corresponding device management contracts.
GML AG was reintegrated into KfH in mid-2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Retrieved September 10, 2017
- ↑ [2] Retrieved September 10, 2017
- ^ Website of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Quality in Nephrology website , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Internet site KfH Bildungszentrum , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ The Statistics Portal , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ^ Who to Whom Company database , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Figures and data on the KfH website , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Internet site KfH Foundation Preventive Medicine , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Internet site KfH Foundation Emergency Aid for Kidney Patients , accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ GML website , accessed on September 10, 2017.