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              of patient-centered care at
            
            
              Kadlec.
            
            
              Have you had an exceptional
            
            
              patient care experience
            
            
              you’d like to share? Visit
            
            
              Kadlecmed.org
            
            
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              Kadlec Clinic
            
            
              Nephrology
            
            
              welcomes new
            
            
              physician
            
            
              Puneet Tandon, MD, has joined
            
            
              Fareed Arif, MD, and Nalini Vassa,
            
            
              MD, at Kadlec Clinic Nephrology.
            
            
              They are all board certified in both
            
            
              nephrology and internal medicine.
            
            
              Nephrology
            
            
              (a subspecialty
            
            
              of internal medicine) focuses on
            
            
              kidney diseases.
            
            
              A
            
            
              nephrologist
            
            
              diagnoses and
            
            
              treats kidney diseases, including
            
            
              both the conditions these diseases
            
            
              can produce such as hypertension,
            
            
              and diseases that can cause kidney
            
            
              failure such as diabetes mellitus
            
            
              and polycystic kidney disease. A
            
            
              nephrologist also cares for patients
            
            
              following renal transplant.
            
            
              Care for adult patients with
            
            
              kidney disease is available at
            
            
              Kadlec Clinic Nephrology.
            
            
              Drs. Tandon, Arif and Vassa
            
            
              believe that kidney disease
            
            
              is under-recognized and early
            
            
              recognition and treatment is crucial
            
            
              for better outcomes.
            
            
              Kadlec Clinic Nephrology
            
            
              510 N. Colorado Street, Suite A
            
            
              Kennewick, Wash.
            
            
              (509) 942-3156
            
            
              Put your tennis shoes on. HeartChase™
            
            
              Tri-Cities is headed this way.
            
            
              On March 24, teams of two to five
            
            
              people will be combining technology
            
            
              with athleticism to raise money and
            
            
              awareness for the United States’ leading
            
            
              cause of death—heart disease.
            
            
              The American Heart Association’s
            
            
              HeartChase is an innovative community
            
            
              event that provides a fun, new way to
            
            
              promote healthy living and support a
            
            
              great cause. It’s been held across the
            
            
              country, and now it is coming to the
            
            
              Tri-Cities.
            
            
              Think of the around-town excitement
            
            
              from shows like The Amazing Race meets
            
            
              wacky team-based games like Minute-to-
            
            
              Pacesetter online!
            
            
              There is so much happening at Kadlec
            
            
              that we’ve created an expanded, online
            
            
              version of
            
            
              Pacesetter
            
            
              . You can read all
            
            
              these
            
            
              Pacesetter
            
            
              articles as well as new
            
            
              articles and additional information.
            
            
              This online edition includes:
            
            
              ● 
            
            
              What are the symptoms, risk factors
            
            
              and various treatment options for
            
            
              congestive heart failure
            
            
              ● 
            
            
              Learn about what made our Pediatric
            
            
              Hero so special
            
            
              ● 
            
            
              And much, much more.
            
            
              Just visit
            
            
              www.kadlec.org
            
            
              and click on
            
            
              the “Media” link!
            
            
              Look for this logo throughout
            
            
              Pacesetter
            
            
              .
            
            
              It means you can read more
            
            
              information about this subject in
            
            
              Pacesetter
            
            
              online.
            
            
              What’s happening at Kadlec
            
            
              Put your team together
            
            
              HeartChase is coming
            
            
              to the Tri-Cities March 24
            
            
              Win-It. And when you combine games,
            
            
              friendly competition and an important
            
            
              mission, you’ve got great fun with a
            
            
              purpose.
            
            
              HeartChase will bring families, friends
            
            
              and coworkers of all ages together in a
            
            
              community-wide competition to uncover
            
            
              clues, solve puzzles and complete
            
            
              challenges in a race to the finish line.
            
            
              Kadlec Regional Medical Center is the
            
            
              title sponsor of the local event, which will
            
            
              be held March 24, beginning at 10 a.m.
            
            
              at Howard Amon Park in Richland.
            
            
              Want to sign up your team, learn
            
            
              more about it or even volunteer? Go to
            
            
              www.heartchasetricities.org.
            
            
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