Excellence in Patient Care (EPC)
Excellence in Patient Care (EPC) focuses on ASN’s clinical priorities to provide high-quality care for people with kidney diseases.
Through all its projects, EPC embraces three aims:
- To ensure all people with kidney diseases receive the best evidence-based care possible.
- To champion patient experiences, preferences, and values by actively engaging people with kidney diseases in EPC activities.
- To advance equitable access to high-quality kidney care by promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion and pursuing health care justice.
EPC Projects & Initiatives
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#SockItToKidneyDisease!

Join the worldwide campaign to raise awareness about kidney disease management! Post your socks on social media and tag @ASNKidney and @NU_Nephrology to empower people living with kidney diseases. Join the campaign to raise awareness of symptom management and show solidarity worldwide. Let’s #SockItToKidneyDisease!
Resource Library Highlights
The Excellence in Patient Care Library is a collection of resources to promote excellence in the prevention and treatment of acute and chronic kidney disease. These resources will help kidney care professionals transform the delivery care, reduce morbidity and mortality, and improve long-term outcomes.
Project Firstline's Educational Resources Are Live!

Project Firstline’s interactive modules highlight the importance of infection prevention and outline steps frontline dialysis facility staff should take to help protect their patients, themselves, and their colleagues.
Preventing Outpatient Dialysis Infections As A Team: Targeting Zero Infections Micro-webinar

In part one of this three-part micro-webinar series for nephrology fellows, Drs. Sana Waheed and Solomia Savedchuk proffer their insight into team dynamics in the effort to prevent dialysis infections.
Online Learning Courses
Let's Reset: A New Approach to Empower Patients to Speak Up About Dialysis Safety and Prevent Infection
Managing Infections in an Outpatient Dialysis Facility
Management of Chronic Kidney Disease in People with Diabetes
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Thank You Kidney Care Team
The American Society of Nephrology thanks you, the Kidney Care team, for your extraordinary efforts caring for kidney patients throughout this pandemic.
We’re United 4 Kidney Health.
See COVID-19 Resources » Download Thank You Poster »