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Percent4540353025201510508.6 8.62011 Patient Education Calendar SurveyResponses:What was useful about calendar5.21942.412.42.4 1.4Figure 30. 2011 Patient Education Calendar Survey Response: What was useful about calendar?RehabilitationNetwork 6 calculated facility-specific rates of patients using vocational rehabilitation servicesand rates of patients either employed or attending school. The Network conducted phoneinterviews with a random sample of facilities with low Vocational Rehabilitation referral rates andno patients reported as working or attending school to offer technical assistance. Majority offacility staff (Social Workers) reported that patients are not interested due to medical inability orfear of losing benefits.Transplant CoalitionNetwork 6’s Transplant Coalition began in calendar year 2010 and expanded during the 2011calendar year.Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, the states of ESRD Network 6 area are among thelowest for kidney transplantation, as illustrated by the USRDS 1 2011 ADR (Figure 31). The1 U.S. Renal Data System, USRDS 2011 Annual Data Report: Atlas of Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States,National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, 2011. Publications based upon USRDSdata reported here or supplied upon request must include this citation and the following notice: The data reported here have been supplied by theUnited States Renal Data System (USRDS). The interpretation and reporting of these data are the responsibility of the author(s) and in no way shouldbe seen as an official policy or interpretation of the U.S. government.P a g e | 58