We have a responsibility to improve the well-being of the communities we serve and make a positive impact on society.
donated through 2023 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA)
of plastics and metals diverted from landfills by recycling and reusing parts from retired dialysis machines in 2022
Mircera shipping containers kept out of landfills each year
in products and equipment donated
Mircera shippers returned from California in 2023
Fresenius Medical Care patients received a kidney transplant in 2022
diverse suppliers supported in the U.S.
scholarships (new and renewals) awarded to children and grandchildren of Fresenius Medical Care employees in 2022
of polyethylene/resin chips sent monthly from our plant in Ogden, Utah, to be converted from waste to energy
Some of our partners
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Among the activities supported by Fresenius Kidney Care’s partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America is our “The Kidney Kid Program.” This educational program is hosted by Fresenius Kidney Care employees for youth, their families, and caregivers to teach the importance of kidney health.
Fresenius Kidney Care volunteers spend time with Club kids to discuss the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, exercising, and recommending other healthy actions to keep their kidneys healthy. Club participants complete challenges in activity books, play games, enjoy healthy snacks, and participate in fun physical activities.
In 2023, 158 employees volunteered to deliver “The Kidney Kid” program to 1,149 kids in 30 Boys & Girls Clubs in at-risk communities, including 3 California locations – Costa Mesa, Sacramento and Los Angeles.
Donate Life America
Fresenius Medical Care provided the financial support to enable Donate Life America to develop the first living donor registry in the United States. DLA’s Living Donor Registry uses home swab tests to match living donors to the nearly 100,000 patients awaiting transplant. A donor’s HLA and ABO blood types are securely stored online, accessible only to transplant centers to determine possible patient matches.
Donate Life America’s goal is to bring donation opportunities directly to people in their everyday life. Offering the living kidney donation option to individuals who were already making the lifesaving decision to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor in the National Donate Life Registry at RegisterMe.org.
Food is Medicine Coalition
Fresenius Kidney Care supports the Food Is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) to help those living with severe illness eat and live better.
Fresenius Kidney Care’s financial support is helping FIMC to expand access to medically tailored meals (MTMs) by training nonprofit food providers to become medically tailored meal providers. Our support is also an Accreditation Program to further codify the medically tailored meal model and standards.
Taking Care of Our Communities
“We just do what we have to do.”
That’s how Fresenius Kidney Care approaches natural disasters and other emergencies that impact the ability of our patients to receive their treatments and of our employees to get to work.
Whether that’s bringing in temporary generators and water filtration systems, setting up massive smoke-filtering fans, placing sandbags around our centers, or putting team members up in hotels and providing food and rental cars, we do what it takes to ensure our patients don’t miss life-sustaining treatments. We also have disaster relief funds available to assist employees particularly affected by natural disasters.
During 2025 LA Wildfires, Fresenius Medical Care
- We immediately mobilized our Disaster Response Team to begin coordination with our local teams, doctors, hospitals, utilities, and local authorities
- We proactively contacted and accounted for patients receiving dialysis services and our employees
- Care teams and social workers collaborated in real time to communicate resources and support schedule adjustments for patients affected by the fires
- Biomedical technicians addressed air quality challenges by deploying air scrubbers to centers and providing N95 masks to patients and staff
- All Fresenius Kidney Care outpatient dialysis centers in Southern California remained open and operational
Organizations we support
