Your patients don't have to face transplant alone.
We equip dialysis clinic social workers — and teach potential transplant recipients directly, in classes held inside the clinic — with the education, tools, and community connections that get people to a kidney transplant evaluation ready, not overwhelmed.
Supporting those who
support the journey.
Who we serve
Dialysis clinic social workers and their patients — everyone who needs practical preparation for pre-transplant evaluation and post-kidney-transplant success.
The challenge
Gaps in housing, caregiver support, insurance, transportation, food access, and mental health or substance use can contribute to missed appointments, failed post-transplant support plans, and hospital readmissions.
Practical support for your clinic's transplant pathway.
Pre-transplant education
Education for dialysis staff and patients, including social worker workshops and patient classes held inside dialysis clinics.
Transplant-readiness support
Preparation before evaluation and after transplant, so patients can meet requirements and sustain their support plan.
Referral process improvement
Review, assessment, and implementation of improved kidney transplant referral processes and tools.
Socioeconomic risk identification
Identifying needs before transplant — housing, insurance, transportation, food, caregiver support, and mental health or substance use.
Community connections
Connecting clinic social workers with community and national resources and providers through in-service events and/or virtual meetings.
What we aim to achieve together.
These are intended outcomes.
- Increased referrals for kidney transplant evaluation.
- More positive waitlist activations for transplant.
- Stronger post-transplant support plans and improved preparation for transplant evaluation.
- Earlier connections to housing, insurance, transportation, food, caregiver support, and mental health or substance use resources.
- Useful data to support dialysis-facility performance reporting, including CMS Dialysis Facility Care Compare measures.
Andrea is a composite patient; her story is illustrative and results vary.
Transplant education changes outcomes — the research says so.
Peer-reviewed studies link what patients understand about their transplant — and their medications — directly to graft survival, readmissions, and long-term success.
higher risk of early readmission
Kidney transplant recipients identified as lacking understanding of — or not adhering to — their post-transplant medications were more than twice as likely to be readmitted within 30 days (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.10–4.71). Medication knowledge gaps independently drove early readmission.
Covert et al., Clinical Transplantation, 2016a leading — and preventable — cause
Non-adherence to immunosuppressant therapy is a leading cause of graft failure, yet it is a modifiable behavior: Cochrane's review of randomized trials confirms structured education and multi-component interventions can improve adherence.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022jump in patient knowledge
In a randomized trial of renal transplant recipients, structured patient education and interviews raised mean knowledge scores from 12.2 to 20.7 — roughly a 70% increase — and significantly improved immunosuppressant adherence.
Akşit et al., Cureus, 2022with structured education & aftercare
KTx360°, a national program pairing patient education with medical aftercare, was associated with reduced graft failure and lower mortality after kidney transplantation in a claims-data analysis.
Pape et al., eClinicalMedicine (The Lancet), 2024A 3-month nurse-led education program significantly improved immunosuppressant adherence and kidney-function markers six months after transplant — a randomized clinical trial (BMC Nursing, 2026).
The MAGIC randomized trial found a structured self-management program improved medication adherence in adult kidney transplant recipients (American Journal of Transplantation, 2019).
Peer-reviewed studies cited above; links open in a new tab. Individual results vary.
Purchase individually, or save with the 90-day bundle.
Social worker workshop class
5 classes
- Five pre-transplant education workshops delivered to your dialysis clinic social workers
- Transplant-readiness fundamentals: referral criteria, waitlist activation, and what transplant centers look for
- How social determinants of health affect a patient's acceptance by a transplant center
- Practical tools your team can use with patients the same week
Patient education classes
5 classes, including a living donor class
- Five education classes taught to potential transplant recipients inside your dialysis clinic
- Plain-language walkthrough of the evaluation process, waitlisting, and life after transplant
- A dedicated living donor class covering how to identify and talk with potential donors
- Printed Kidney Transplant Journal/Planner for each patient to keep
Referral process & tool review
1 month
- A full review of your clinic's current kidney transplant referral process and referral tool
- Assessment of where referrals stall and which criteria cause delays or missed candidates
- A modified referral process and tool, built with your team and ready to use
- Implementation support so the new process holds up after the engagement ends
Resource review & update
1 month
- Review and assessment of the community resources your social workers currently rely on
- Introduction to updated community and national providers — Medicaid, disability, income-based support programs, and more
- Connections between your social workers and the providers who can serve your patients
- A refreshed resource list your team can put to work immediately
90-day offer bundle
$42,000
Save $4,000 vs. $46,000 individually
- • 5 workshop classes with social workers
- • 5 transplant-readiness classes with patients, including a living donor class — printed product included
- • 1 month review and update of the referral process tool
- • 1 month reviewing and assessing the resources list
Large-scale implementation
Project through UNOS or DFCC
$175,000 / year
A practical partnership
K.Solutions partners with dialysis centers to make transplant preparation more organized, proactive, and sustainable for patients and care teams.
A social worker who's sat beside patients and transplant teams.
K.Solutions.Co was founded by Mariam Jones, MSW — eight years of experience in healthcare that involved working with dialysis and kidney transplant patients, including time as a kidney transplant social worker inside a transplant center. She completed biopsychosocial assessments for transplant evaluations and saw which social needs sped a patient up — or held them back.
Mariam has collaborated with more than 50 dialysis clinic social workers to discuss transplant readiness and ways to help their mutual patients have a successful transplant; however, she noticed that although clinic social workers and patients have pre-transplant education, patients are still delayed for waitlisting due to psychosocial needs such as:
- Lack of a post-transplant caregiver plan
- Being unhoused or in unstable housing
- Being uninsured or having a lapse in insurance
- Actively smoking tobacco or marijuana
- Mental health or substance-use needs that aren't being addressed
K.Solutions.Co brings that education into the dialysis clinic — so readiness is understood before the waitlist, not discovered during it.
Tell us where your clinic is in the process.
Whether you're building your first readiness program or refining referral tools that have outlived their usefulness, we'll point you to the right first step. No obligation, no cold clinical intake.