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Practical help around dialysis.

Start with what you are trying to solve today—meals, transportation, caregiver support, treatment questions, or tools that help keep the details organized.

Not sure where to start?Choose the closest match below. You can always come back here and take a different path.

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What do you need help with?

These are the main support paths outside the treatment chair. Each one leads to a focused RCP resource or directory.

Meals & nutrition

Kidney-friendly meal delivery

Compare kidney- and dialysis-specific meal programs, published nutrition criteria, coverage, and assistance options.

Compare meal services

Transportation

Getting to dialysis

Understand California Medi-Cal transportation pathways, recurring dialysis rides, and where to start asking for help.

Find transportation help

Caregiver support

Helping someone through dialysis

Practical guidance for treatment days, questions, appointments, routines, and keeping important details organized.

Explore caregiver support

Official resources

Benefits, facilities & trusted help

Go directly to authoritative organizations for facility search, Medicare information, emergency planning, and kidney-care education.

View trusted resources

Treatment support

Something came up during dialysis?

Use these tools when you want to understand what happened, capture the details while they are still fresh, or prepare a clearer question for your care team.

Open My TreatmentKeep treatment-day notes and questions together.
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What was that?Look up something you noticed, heard, or felt during treatment.
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Why did they do that?Understand common treatment actions in plain language.
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RCP tools

Learn, prepare, and keep the practical parts easier to find.

Use the tool that fits the moment—understanding the machine, preparing for treatment, reading a guide, or keeping track across several weeks.

Interactive

Machine Explorer

Learn what common screen values, pressures, alarms, and treatment concepts mean in plain language.

Open explorer → Free tools

Planning Tools

Question sheets, medication lists, treatment trackers, packing checklists, and practical printables.

View tools → Learn

Dialysis Guides

Browse patient-friendly explanations covering treatment, access, symptoms, food, fluid, and everyday life.

Browse guides → 90-Day Planner

Chairside Companion

See how the printed planner supports Track, Recognize, Prepare, and Participate across treatment days.

See the planner →

A Closer Look

Understand a common treatment concept.

Short companion explanations for terms and situations that often come up during hemodialysis.

Fluid & weight

Dry Weight

What target or dry weight generally means, why it can change, and what may be useful to discuss.

Fluid removal

UF / Fluid Removal

Understand UF goal, fluid removal, and why treatment time and symptoms are part of the conversation.

Vascular access

Your Dialysis Access

Fistula, graft, and catheter basics, plus what to do when something seems different.

Treatment

Treatment Time

Why treatment duration is part of the prescription and how to frame questions about it.

Symptoms

When Something Feels Different

Cramps, dizziness, fatigue, access changes, or something you cannot quite identify.

The basics

How Hemodialysis Works

A simple path through access, bloodlines, the dialyzer, machine monitoring, and return.

Prepare—not replace—your care team.

Renal Care Planner is designed to help you understand general information, keep track of what matters to you, and prepare questions or details you want to bring back to your dialysis team.

Individual treatment decisions stay with you and your healthcare professionals.