Dialysis Training Institute
Higher Education - La Palma, California, United States
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Everything that Dialysis Training Institute is today started with an idea. An idea with very personal roots.Gregory Falconer and Cheryl Anderson were a young couple like many others, happy, full of promise, and they were headed for marriage. But, in 1974 Greg developed a severe strep infection that left his kidneys permanently damaged, and dependent on life sustaining hemodialysis treatments. They married in the summer of 1975, and Cheryl became his home-dialysis partner, so you could say it was kind of an accident that this personal experience helped steer her way into a nephrology nursing specialty. She believes everything happens for a reason and looks back on that time in her life as a blessing.Cheryl completed her nurses training in 1983, and found her first position as a registered nurse in dialysis. That has remained her focus ever since.In the years that followed, she worked as registered nurse hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, acute dialysis and nephrology practices, as well as in business and marketing, collecting her degrees, professional training and experience along the way.In 1999, as an Administrator, Cheryl found herself routinely frustrated by the difficulties in finding and hiring, well-trained hemodialysis nurses and technicians. The standard on-the-job trained new hire routinely had to be completely retrained after hiring. It was a long, costly process and the idea of starting a school came to be.As the idea took root, it grew and matured into a partnership of two dialysis nurses and one certified hemodialysis technician and a mission to provide students with complete, high-quality, patient centered education in hemodialysis.In April of 2001 the Dialysis Training Institute (DTI) received approval from the Bureau for Private Post-Secondary and Vocational Education, now the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE). The Basic Hemodialysis Training Program at DTI graduated its first class that same year, and has g...
