Public Health Administrator Jean Chabut presenting the Strategic Plan Addressing Kidney Disease, a plan jointly developed by the Michigan Department of Community Health, the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, and the Chronic Kidney Disease Task Force.
Describing the plan as a roadmap for the education of adults and children, Michigan Surgeon General Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom notes that 70 percent of chronic kidney disease is caused by the preventable conditions of diabetes and high blood pressure.
Michigan Surgeon General Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom promotes the plan as a way to establish a unified course of action among health care providers, public and private health officials, researchers, businesses, community groups, and individuals with chronic kidney diesease.
A member of the Senate's Health Policy Committee and outspoken advocate of kidney disease prevention, Senator Gilda Jacobs (D-Huntington Woods) describes the dent the plan could make in the approximately $750 million that was spent in Michigan to treat kidney related disease.
Dr. Frank Vinicor presenting the Strategic Plan Addressing Kidney Disease which outlines a plan to curb kidney disease through both Health Care Setting Inititives and Community Based Iniatives in Michigan.
Linda Smith-Wheelock unveiling Michigan's plan to battle chronic kidney disease, a disease which when left untreated can lead to total kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant.
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