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A Ride Toward A Brighter Tomorrow.
Reliable transportation helps kidney patients reach life-saving appointments, treatments, and transplants.
“This ride got me to my treatment without burdening my family.”
“It means I get to keep being a kid.”
“It helped me get one step closer to a new kidney.”
Sample voices and representative illustrations for the demo. Replace with real patient quotes and photos, shared with consent.
Always free for patients
Rides, not vehicle overhead
Privacy-first dispatch
The cost of a missed ride
Care can't help if you can't get there.
Missing dialysis isn't an inconvenience. It's a medical risk. Transportation is the missing link in the chain of care.
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U.S. adults estimated to be living with chronic kidney disease.
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Typical in-center dialysis schedule, for life or until transplant.
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Per session, often leaving patients too fatigued to drive home.
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Round trips a year for one patient on a standard schedule.
Source: CDC, Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States, 2026.
What one missed ride sets in motion
A ride falls through
Cost, distance, or a family member who can't leave work.
Treatment is missed
Toxins and fluid build up between sessions.
Symptoms spike
Shortness of breath, dangerous potassium levels.
An ER visit follows
Costlier, riskier, and preventable.
One dependable ride changes the day.
We break the chain at the first link, so patients can focus on their health, not the trip.
0%of donations go
directly to rides
directly to rides
Rides for patients
Coordination, compliance & outreach
Operating goal, subject to actual program costs and annual reporting.
Asset-light, impact-heavy
We fund the ride. Not a fleet.
Instead of buying and maintaining vans, we dispatch through proven ride infrastructure like Uber Health. Your gift moves a patient, not a parts budget, in everyday cars that never make anyone feel institutionalized.
Traditional fleet model
- Vans, insurance & repairs
- Idle vehicles between trips
- Limited coverage area
The Kidney League model
- Pay only per completed ride
- Drivers available on demand
- Reaches urban & rural transit deserts
1 Care team refers
2 We dispatch & track
3 Patient arrives on time
Under the hood
How a referral moves from intake to enrollment
Eight stages, four owners, one rule: each party sees only the minimum necessary information, and nothing moves to a ride partner before a signed HIPAA authorization. Hover any stage for a summary, or select it to see what happens, what is shared and how it is protected.
Owners:
PatientCare teamTKLRide partner
Stages 2–5 are the same four steps patients complete in Get a Ride.
For hospitals & providers
Enterprise-grade transportation. Zero cost to your patients.
Our dispatch operations are built to the same privacy, reliability and reporting standards your organization already holds itself to. Reduce missed sessions and avoidable readmissions without managing a fleet.
Dispatch designed for HIPAA
PHI handled under Business Associate Agreements, gated by a signed patient authorization. See the flow →
Real-time tracking
Live ride status from pickup to chairside, visible to your coordinators.
Built for reliability
Recurring schedules, proactive reminders and fast re-dispatch when plans change.
Outcome reporting
Monthly reports on completed trips, on-time rates and missed-session reduction.
Social-worker referrals
Clinic staff refer through a secure portal, and we handle all the logistics.
No app required
Phone-based booking for patients without smartphones.
Demo note: HIPAA compliance, any Uber Health relationship and service-level commitments must be validated and documented in signed agreements before this copy goes live. Tracking view is illustrative.
Get a ride
Need a ride to treatment? Start here.
Our private intake takes four short steps. You can save and come back any time, and nothing about your health is shared with a driver until you say so in Step 4.
Prefer help? Your social worker can start a referral for you, or email info@thekidneyleague.org. Rides are free to eligible patients. For emergencies, call 911.
Private intake
Save & return enabled
1Profile
2Clinical
3Needs
4Authorize
Step 1 of 4
Patient Profile & Identification
Information entered here is used for program intake and service coordination.
Legal name (required)
Date of birth (required)
mm/dd/yyyy
Mobile phone (required)
Email (required)
City / PNW location (optional)
Emergency contact (optional)
Name • relationship • phone
Preview only. Your details are entered in the secure intake, never on this page.
Transparency
Every dollar, accounted for.
We publish our IRS filings and program numbers so donors, partners and patients can check our work, not just take our word for it.
Where your gift goes
Functional expenses, as reported on Form 990, Part IX.
Program services: rides for patients 91%
Management, coordination & compliance 3%
Fundraising & outreach 6%
Target allocation shown for the demo. Replace with figures from the latest filed Form 990.
Form 990 · latest filing
Our annual IRS return: revenue, expenses, programs and leadership.
View PDFIRS determination letter
Confirms our 501(c)(3) status. Gifts are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
ViewAnnual impact report
Rides completed, patients served, on-time rate and cost per ride.
ViewPrivacy & HIPAA notice
How patient information is collected, used, shared and protected.
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More than a trip
A little less worry. A lot more possibility.
The numbers explain the need. But the moment that matters is when someone walks into treatment on time, and knows they'll get home again. That's what your gift buys: a seat, a safe ride, and one less thing to carry.
Be part of that moment
Pay it forward
Choose the ride you'll give.
Every dollar becomes a real trip for a real neighbor, someone who will remember that a stranger got them there.
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501(c)(3) · tax-deductible
91% goes directly to rides
Tier impacts are illustrative and depend on actual trip costs.
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