{"id":7180,"date":"2023-08-13T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:15:55","slug":"u-s-department-of-veteran-affairs-partners-with-top-kidney-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/13\/u-s-department-of-veteran-affairs-partners-with-top-kidney-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Partners with Top Kidney Advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7180\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>AAKP and Veterans Health Administration Align\u00a0 to Improve Veteran Lives<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By American Association of Kidney Patients<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON,&nbsp;Aug. 10, 2023&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the largest and oldest independent kidney patient organization in the nation, announced their new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3941446-1&amp;h=3731084029&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.va.gov%2Fpress-room%2Fva-american-association-of-kidney-patients-partner-kidney-disease%2F&amp;a=partnership\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partnership<\/a>&nbsp;with the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The formal collaboration aims to improve health outcomes and enhance the overall quality of life for Veterans with kidney diseases and is facilitated under the Veterans Health Administration&#8217;s (VHA)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3941446-1&amp;h=3257463854&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.va.gov%2FHEALTHPARTNERSHIPS%2Findex.asp&amp;a=National+Center+for+Healthcare+Advancement+and+Partnerships+(HAP)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Healthcare Advancement and Partnerships (HAP)<\/a>.&nbsp; AAKP has extensive Veteran and Veteran family representation among its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3941446-1&amp;h=912130715&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Faakp.org%2Fu-s-marine-corps-veterans-elected-to-lead-top-kidney-patient-group%2F&amp;a=Board+of+Directors\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Directors<\/a>, National Patient Ambassadors, and grassroots membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AAKP is a strong advocate for greater patient care choice, patient-centered medicine, and accelerated innovations in kidney disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatments \u2013 including expanded access to kidney transplantation and new artificial implantable and wearable organs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/us-department-of-veteran-affairs-partners-with-top-kidney-advocates-301898175.html\">Read the complete press release<\/a> from AAKP.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7180\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading AAKP and Veterans Health Administration Align\u00a0 to Improve Veteran Lives By American Association of Kidney Patients WASHINGTON,&nbsp;Aug. 10, 2023&nbsp;\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the largest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/13\/u-s-department-of-veteran-affairs-partners-with-top-kidney-advocates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Partners with Top Kidney Advocates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,344],"tags":[72,2186,2185],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"2","views":"1092","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}