Disaster Relief

Disaster Relief Media Contact
Email media@fmc-na.com or call 781-699-5280 for a timely response.
How We Respond to Disasters
Our comprehensive approach to disasters ensures dialysis patients receive the life-sustaining care they need and our employees are safe and supported.
Patients can contact our 24-hour toll-free Patient Emergency Line at 800-626-1297.
Patient Resources
Our Team
- Our Disaster Response Team (DRT) maintains relationships with key local, regional and national entities – Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), federal, state and local governments, first responders, volunteer organizations, utilities, and businesses, So when a disaster strikes, we ensure that critical needs for fuel, water, transportation, and other services are prioritized for patients receiving dialysis treatment.
- We routinely conduct mock disaster trainings to ensure all parties are aware of protocols and understand their roles and responsibilities so that disaster operations run as smoothly as possible.
- Once the DRT has been mobilized, daily update calls with representatives from departments across the company help ensure staff are empowered to take care of our patients quickly and effectively.
- Mobilizing local Command Centers in response to a disaster is the backbone of our DRT operations. We bring in leadership from outside the impacted area to run the Command Centers, enabling local leadership to focus on clinic operations. Command Center staff works logistics including accounting for all patients and employees, and arranging for the distribution of food, personal generators and other necessary supplies. Our Renal Therapies Group Distribution Centers are used to stage supplies for shipping and/or distribution to the clinics.
Our Experience
Hurricane Michael
Our coordinated disaster response team arrived the day after Hurricane Michael struck Panama City, Fla., ensuring that every in-center or at-home dialysis patient in the impacted area, whether a Fresenius Medical Care patient or not, could continue receiving life-sustaining treatment.
Hurricane Maria
We brought in necessary people and supplies to Puerto Rico to serve the needs of our employees and patients, including more than one hundred employee relief volunteers from operations staff to nurses.
Hurricane Maria
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Miguel Neris, Fresenius Medical Care North America clinical manager in Miami, Fla., traveled to Puerto Rico to help provide relief to local staff. For Miguel it was a homecoming.
Hurricane Harvey
After flooding ravaged Houston, we partnered with a Duck Boat (amphibious vehicle) company in Mobile, Ala., to transport flood-stranded patients to clinics for life-sustaining dialysis treatments.
Hurricane Katrina
We were able to provide life-sustaining treatments to more than seven thousand displaced patients after Hurricane Katrina, including more than one thousand non-Fresenius Kidney Care patients.
2017 Disaster Season
Fresenius Medical Care went above and beyond for its patients and employees during an unprecedented 2017 disaster season.
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- We Stand Together During Hurricane Harvey
- Hurricane Irma Disaster Response
- Supporting Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
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In the News
- Fox28: 24-hour hotline for Hilton Head dialysis patients affected by hurricane
- Healio: Fresenius and DaVita prepare patients on dialysis for Hurricane Florence
- The Harrison Daily Times: Local officers head for hurricane
- The Independent: Medical professionals prepare for emergency treatment as storm wipes out power and leaves hundreds stranded
- KY3 Arkansas: Arkansas group travels to east coast to help hurricane victims
- Healio: Dialysis providers reopen clinics after Hurricane Florence floods the Carolinas
- Healio: Hurricane Michael loses strength over Florida, but dialysis providers remain on alert
- NBC15 Alabama Online: I-10 shut down for over 80 miles
- FierceBiotech: Fresenius, DaVita dialysis centers open doors after Hurricane Michael
- Healio: AKF makes disaster funds available for patients impacted by Hurricane Michael
- NBC Nightly News: Patients Evacuated From Hospitals In Anticipation Of Hurricane Harvey
- AL.com: Hurricane Harvey: Duck boats from Mobile pitch in to help in Houston
- CNBC: Medical units mobilize to deliver patients to care centers after Harvey
- CNN: Dialysis clinic steps up to ensure vital care in Harvey’s aftermath
- Huffington Post: Puerto Rico’s Power Outage…
- WLRN: For Dialysis Patients, Hurricanes Are A Race Against The Clock…
- USA Today: Maria-ravaged Puerto Rico still struggling…
- Renal & Urology News: Dialysis Care in an Emergency: Lessons From Hurricane Harvey
- Medscape: Disaster Efforts Bring Dialysis Relief to Puerto Rico
- The Salem News: Nurse responds to need in Puerto Rico
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Holiday Heroes: Former Army pilot goes back to his roots to save lives in Puerto Rico
- Alamogordo Daily News (USA Today): Alamogordo nurse helps with relief in Puerto Rico
- AL.com: Gulf Coast Ducks thanked for saving lives after Hurricane Harvey