Camp Okawehna
Encyclopedia
Camp Okawehnahttp://www.dciinc.org/camp/camp.htm is a summer camp
, held for six days in early June, located at Cedar Crest Campground in Lyles, Tennessee
(within 50 miles of Nashville
) for children and teens with kidney disease including transplant and dialysis
patients. A fully operational hemodialysis
facility is set up at the campground.
It has been in operation since 1974 and is run by the non profit organization Dialysis Clinic, Inc
http://www.dciinc.org/. Participants come from the south and mid-south
of the USA.
Summer camp
Summer camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as campers....
, held for six days in early June, located at Cedar Crest Campground in Lyles, Tennessee
Lyles, Tennessee
Lyles is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. It is located along Tennessee State Route 100. The community has a handful of stores and churches. It is the location of Camp Okawehna....
(within 50 miles of Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
) for children and teens with kidney disease including transplant and dialysis
Dialysis
In medicine, dialysis is a process for removing waste and excess water from the blood, and is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function in people with renal failure...
patients. A fully operational hemodialysis
Hemodialysis
In medicine, hemodialysis is a method for removing waste products such as creatinine and urea, as well as free water from the blood when the kidneys are in renal failure. Hemodialysis is one of three renal replacement therapies .Hemodialysis can be an outpatient or inpatient therapy...
facility is set up at the campground.
It has been in operation since 1974 and is run by the non profit organization Dialysis Clinic, Inc
Dialysis Clinic, Inc
Dialysis Clinic, Inc. is a nonprofit medical corporation founded in 1971 and chartered as a 501 tax-exempt organization under IRS regulations. It was founded for care and research of patients with kidney disease and supports activities in kidney transplant and dialysis throughout the midwest and...
http://www.dciinc.org/. Participants come from the south and mid-south
Mid-South
Mid-South may refer to:*The East South Central States*The region centered on the Memphis and Little Rock MSAs, including portions of West Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and northeastern Arkansas, as well as the Missouri Bootheel and extreme northwestern Alabama; see Memphis metropolitan...
of the USA.
External links
- Camp information
- Dialysis Clinic, Inc. home page
- http://www.vanderbiltchildrens.com/interior.php?mid=1605 Vanderbilt University Pediatrics
- http://www.kidney.org/patients/pfc/kidney_camp/TN.cfm National Kidney Foundation directory of camps
- http://texaschildrenspediatrics.org/WaysToGive/financialsupport/camps.aspx Texas Children's Hospital
See also
- Camp DiscoveryCamp DiscoveryCamp Discovery is a therapedic summer camp located at Gainesboro, Tennessee for Tennessee-area children and teens with disabilities such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, diabetes, Down syndrome, as well as various developmental disabilities.It has been in operation since 1983 and its part of the...
- Dialysis Clinic, IncDialysis Clinic, IncDialysis Clinic, Inc. is a nonprofit medical corporation founded in 1971 and chartered as a 501 tax-exempt organization under IRS regulations. It was founded for care and research of patients with kidney disease and supports activities in kidney transplant and dialysis throughout the midwest and...