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Find Your Kidney Risk Zone
The KDIGO heat map with the validated Tangri Kidney Failure Risk Equation. Patients enter their own data and see their personal risk category, along with what it means.
Northern Nephrology & Hypertension · Plattsburgh, NY
Northern Nephrology & Hypertension is a nephrology practice in Plattsburgh, New York — currently a top-performing practice on safe starts within the Integrated Kidney Care of Lake Erie KCE, through a clinical model built around risk stratification and patient education.
NNH Interactive publishes the interactive tools that make that model work. They are freely embeddable by any nephrology practice or CKD-serving organization.
The approach
In the CMS Kidney Care Choices model, the metric that most directly measures upstream patient care is the Optimal ESRD Start — patients arriving at kidney failure prepared, with a planned access and an informed modality choice, not as a hospital crash start. It is the metric that risk stratification and patient education are designed to improve.
Within the Lake Erie KCE — nine participating practices across New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — Northern Nephrology & Hypertension currently performs at the top of the group on safe starts. The modules below are the tools we use with our own patients to make that performance possible.
The toolkit
Each module is real software, not a brochure. Practices embed them with a copy-paste iframe and pass URL parameters to apply their own accent color, practice name, and patient-facing contact link. No account, no contract, no integration work.
The KDIGO heat map with the validated Tangri Kidney Failure Risk Equation. Patients enter their own data and see their personal risk category, along with what it means.
An interactive companion to Risk Zone, aligned to landmark CKD trials. Patients see how the interventions their nephrologist recommends — SGLT2 inhibitors, RAAS blockade, blood pressure control — change their trajectory.
A guided modality education tool for patients approaching kidney failure. Walks through home hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, in-center hemodialysis, and transplant on the patient's own terms.
What to do — and what to stop doing — when a CKD patient gets sick. NSAIDs, ACE/ARBs, SGLT2 inhibitors, hydration, when to call. Practical, plain-language guidance.
Who built this
NNH Interactive is a wholly-owned spin-off of Northern Nephrology & Hypertension, the practice Craig G. Hurwitz, MD founded in Plattsburgh in 2002. The modules are designed and built from inside actual clinical work — by a practicing nephrologist who continues to see CKD patients every week.
That combination is the project's foundation. Patient education built by someone who is in the room with patients every day, and who is responsible for their outcomes.
More about the practice →Two paths forward
For practices
Any module can be embedded on your practice website in minutes. No account, no contract, no cost. Pass your accent color and practice name as URL parameters and the module looks like yours.
See the embed library →For funders & partners
NNH Interactive is funded through a layered model — a development license from Northern Nephrology & Hypertension, with external support sought from CKCC organizations, pharma medical-education grants, and foundation funding. We're open to conversations.
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