Efforts underway to expand care to undocumented immigrants with kidney failure

Although progress has been made, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are underserved and in desperate need of care, according to a presenter at Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.Lilia Cervantes

“U.S. citizens have access to kidney replacement therapy because of the 1972 Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Entitlement program, but for undocumented immigrants care varies,” Lilia Cervantes, MD, director of immigrant health, associate professor from the department of medicine at University of Colorado and member of Nephrology News & Issues Editorial Advisory Board, said. Read more in Healio.