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Little Havana Commissioner Joe Sanchez is joined by NKF Board Member
CJ Ortiz, Dayane Nunez, and Stephanie Hutchinson at a CHERISH Screening.
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Florida was
designated as one of four pilot states for a CDC grant received by the National
Kidney Foundation. The CKD Health Evaluation Risk Information
SHaring
(CHERISH) project is designed to test the feasibility of implementing a chronic
kidney disease (CKD) detection screening in four states, estimate the prevalence
of stages of CKD in the targeted population, and determine participant’s
access to care while addressing the likelihood of disease progression for those
with evidence of CKD.
This
screening is similar to our Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP). Florida
hosted two CHERISH project screenings, one at the Englewood Neighborhood
Community Center in Orlando on December 6, and the second at the Jose Marti
Gym in Little
Havana Miami. Each screening had more than 100 at-risk participants that
came through the program. This free screening which provided individuals
with nine
diagnostic tests including blood pressure, microalbuminuria, pyuria, hematuria,
glucose, hemoglobin, serum creatinine, albumin to creatinine ratio and eGFR.
At this event, participants had the opportunity to speak with a qualified
medical professional to review their results.
These
screenings could not have been possible without the generous volunteer involvement
of Barry University in Miami, Family Physicians Group in Orlando,
and the dedicated renal professionals that have donated their valuable
time in many of our KEEP events. As part of this grant we will be following
the
participants
over the year and will be re-screening them at the end of the year.
