NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID SEATTLE, WA PERMIT NO. 3768 700 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122 Rebecca Fox, hospital executive and In January, we held a community open house at our 19th Opened in August 2019, the new entrepreneur, became our president dialysis clinic, in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood. logistics center streamlines Our and CEO in March. distribution to all locations. ▲ Everett LEGEND N Community dialysis clinics Port Angeles Opening 2022 Lake City/ Locations An exceptional year Blagg Pavilion Everett opened September 2020 Scribner/Scribner Pavilion Kirkland When COVID-19 reached Seattle, Northwest Kidney Centers, the world’s first dialysis organization, became the first in the U.S. to treat dialysis patients infected 5 with the novel coronavirus. Our leaders worked with the Centers for Disease SEATTLE 99 Lake Washington 405 Control and local health authorities to define standards for the entire country. Mission To promote the optimal CEO Rebecca Fox took the helm in March, bringing more than 20 years of deep 520 Broadway/Haviland Pavilion health, quality of life and health care experience – from being an executive at the 6th-largest health care Elliott Bay Seattle independence of people system in the country, Scripps Health, to being the founder and CEO of a technology- Bellevue Lake with kidney disease enabled service company, AristaMD. Her career reflects a lifetime of service and Sammamish through patient care, dedication to health care, particularly for the underserved. Rainier Beach 202 education and research. 90 COVID-19 has continued to affect people with kidney disease at high rates, Snoqualmie Ridge Puget 5 often leading to lung disease, sepsis and kidney failure. Patients and families face Sound job layoffs and loss of insurance. Meanwhile, staff members confronted their own ISSAQUAH Vision personal challenges while continuing to deliver life-sustaining care. 509 405 PRESTON To be the provider 99 of choice. Overwhelming community support has been a silver lining. We received more Logistics Center than $89,000 in financial donations for patients and staff members, along with Burien/Burien Pavilion RENTON thousands of hand-sewn masks, face shields created by 3D printing, food, flowers BURIEN 518 Renton Sea-Tac 169 and many kind words. Airport 18 Values SeaTac/SeaTac Pavilion Teamwork, integrity, We opened our 19th clinic, in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, bringing 167 Panther Lake excellence, respect, dialysis to a diverse urban community. We designed the building around landscaped 2020 Report to the Community KENT stewardship courtyards that bring nature close for patients who sit with us many hours each week. 516 Kent Also new is our logistics center on a campus adjoining North SeaTac Park. The logistics center’s supply chain operation standardizes deliveries to all facilities. 169 Live. Learn. Hope. Staff rose to the challenge of securing new sources of supplies that suddenly became Auburn Federal Way Federal Way East scarce during the pandemic. Adjacent on the new campus: a dialysis clinic and West Campus 18 consolidated administrative offices. FEDERAL WAY The quality of our services remains outstanding. Medicare recently awarded us a Fife composite 4.35 out of 5 stars. Among clinics open in 2019, the most recently reported Enumclaw year, more than half earned perfect 5-star scores. July 2019 - June 2020 www.nwkidney.org | 206-292-2771 NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID SEATTLE, WA PERMIT NO. 3768 700 Broadway Seattle, WA 98122 Rebecca Fox, hospital executive and In January, we held a community open house at our 19th Opened in August 2019, the new entrepreneur, became our president dialysis clinic, in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood. logistics center streamlines Our and CEO in March. distribution to all locations. ▲ Everett LEGEND N Community dialysis clinics Port Angeles Opening 2022 Lake City/ Locations An exceptional year Blagg Pavilion Everett opened September 2020 Scribner/Scribner Pavilion Kirkland When COVID-19 reached Seattle, Northwest Kidney Centers, the world’s first dialysis organization, became the first in the U.S. to treat dialysis patients infected 5 with the novel coronavirus. Our leaders worked with the Centers for Disease SEATTLE 99 Lake Washington 405 Control and local health authorities to define standards for the entire country. Mission To promote the optimal CEO Rebecca Fox took the helm in March, bringing more than 20 years of deep 520 Broadway/Haviland Pavilion health, quality of life and health care experience – from being an executive at the 6th-largest health care Elliott Bay Seattle independence of people system in the country, Scripps Health, to being the founder and CEO of a technology- Bellevue Lake with kidney disease enabled service company, AristaMD. Her career reflects a lifetime of service and Sammamish through patient care, dedication to health care, particularly for the underserved. Rainier Beach 202 education and research. 90 COVID-19 has continued to affect people with kidney disease at high rates, Snoqualmie Ridge Puget 5 often leading to lung disease, sepsis and kidney failure. Patients and families face Sound job layoffs and loss of insurance. Meanwhile, staff members confronted their own ISSAQUAH Vision personal challenges while continuing to deliver life-sustaining care. 509 405 PRESTON To be the provider 99 of choice. Overwhelming community support has been a silver lining. We received more Logistics Center than $89,000 in financial donations for patients and staff members, along with Burien/Burien Pavilion RENTON thousands of hand-sewn masks, face shields created by 3D printing, food, flowers BURIEN 518 Renton Sea-Tac 169 and many kind words. Airport 18 Values SeaTac/SeaTac Pavilion Teamwork, integrity, We opened our 19th clinic, in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood, bringing 167 Panther Lake excellence, respect, dialysis to a diverse urban community. We designed the building around landscaped 2020 Report to the Community KENT stewardship courtyards that bring nature close for patients who sit with us many hours each week. 516 Kent Also new is our logistics center on a campus adjoining North SeaTac Park. The logistics center’s supply chain operation standardizes deliveries to all facilities. 169 Live. Learn. Hope. Staff rose to the challenge of securing new sources of supplies that suddenly became Auburn Federal Way Federal Way East scarce during the pandemic. Adjacent on the new campus: a dialysis clinic and West Campus 18 consolidated administrative offices. FEDERAL WAY The quality of our services remains outstanding. Medicare recently awarded us a Fife composite 4.35 out of 5 stars. Among clinics open in 2019, the most recently reported Enumclaw year, more than half earned perfect 5-star scores. July 2019 - June 2020 www.nwkidney.org | 206-292-2771 Total revenue $138 million 2020 EXPENSES BY THE NUMBERS FINANCIAL RESULTS 85% Patients inspire us PATIENT CARE Northwest Kidney Centers is the provider Our revenue comes from payments for dialysis treatments, earnings on investments and philanthropic gifts. MARÍA of choice for nearly 4 out of 5 people who need dialysis in our area. In an industry dominated We invested more than $30 million in capital projects – building María Beltrán Hernández wakes up early every Tuesday, Thursday construction, water purification and monitoring equipment, patient The Rainier Beach and Saturday for the half-hour drive to dialysis. She’s in her chair by for-profit corporations, we are one of the chairs and new dialysis machines. Growth helps serve more patients clinic in Seattle. 14% at our Federal Way East clinic at 7 a.m. That keeps her afternoons largest not-for-profit kidney care providers. and spreads fixed costs. ADMINISTRATION available for school meetings and other activities with her four children. She also makes a point of Zumba and water aerobics at We provided community benefits totaling $3.6 million, the YMCA. “When I start to feel sad, I just look at my kids. That including support for the Kidney Research Institute, Center for 1% FUNDRAISING 19 Total clinics Northwest Kidney Centers is a regional, gives me the strength to go on,” she says. Dialysis Innovation and four fellowships in nephrology at the not-for-profit provider of kidney dialysis, University of Washington School of Medicine. We also furnished Audited financial statements are available by request. 2 Clinics opened in FY 2020 charity care and supported national patient associations. Northwest Kidney Centers is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, public health education and research community-based health care provider. CHUCK into the causes and treatments of chronic 8 Hospitals served Chuck Bowden of West Seattle used hemodialysis at home to kidney disease. It is known for high quality keep him going between kidney transplants. His first transplant 284,511 Dialysis treatments, services, deep community connections Your gifts totaled a record $4.7 million to advance our mission. Thank you! served him for 24 years, and he received a second one this year. 2.5% growth over previous year and generous donor support. Founded in In between he did dialysis with help from his wife, Tessa. “It made Seattle in 1962, it was the first dialysis us closer,” he said of the 5-day-a-week routine that kept him ready Gifts to Northwest Kidney Centers funded: for a transplant – along with volunteer work, hobbies and time 1,833 Patients organization in the world. with grandchildren. COVID-19 response • Bellevue kidney resource center WHO MADE GIFTS 86 Kidney transplants, Home dialysis • Chronic kidney disease education 60% higher than the nation* Kidney research • New dialysis chairs • Charity care GLORIA Employee scholarships and emergency grants 45% CORPORATIONS FY 2020 Board of Trustees 44% Gloria Leonard, a retired library director, considered dialysis a part- 18.6% On the transplant wait list INDIVIDUALS time job. She got treatment at our newest clinic, in Seattle’s Rainier Richard Bloch, chair Rick Greaves Beach neighborhood, while awaiting a transplant that occurred this Meredith Mathews, MD, Lara Macklin 15% On home dialysis year.