South Carolina to Host Seventh Annual Tour DaVita in September
August 27 2013 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
DaVita®, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:
DVA) and a leading provider of kidney care services, today
announced that the seventh annual Tour DaVita® – a three-day,
220-mile bike ride to raise awareness and funds for the fight
against kidney disease – will kick off on September 15 at the
Cherokee Youth Sports Complex in Gaffney, S.C.
“We see Tour DaVita as not only a way to celebrate our teammates
and the care they provide patients each day, but also a vehicle to
raise awareness of kidney disease and funds for kidney disease
programs,” said DaVita Chief Wisdom Officer Steve Priest, director
of the event. “The ride continues to grow every year because of our
teammates’ and sponsors’ dedication to the fight against kidney
disease.”
Tour DaVita 2013 boasts the highest ever rider participation in
the history of the event with more than 600 DaVita teammates,
dialysis patients, physicians, sponsors, family members and friends
of the company taking part. The event has the following itinerary
for 2013:
Sept. 15 – Participants will ride 60 miles from Gaffney to Chester
Sept. 16 – Participants will choose either an 80- or 100-mile route
from Chester to Fountain Inn Sept. 17 – Participants will ride 60
miles from Fountain Inn to Seneca
Along the way, riders will pass through Brattonsville and
McConnells on day one; Lockhart, Buffalo, West Springs and Enoree
on day two; and Piedmont, Golden Grove, Pelzer and Pendleton on day
three.
To participate in Tour DaVita, riders each raise a minimum of
$750 to $2,000 in donations and pay their own travel expenses.
Their individual fundraising combined with donations from DaVita
and other corporate sponsorship is expected to contribute more than
$700,000 to The Kidney TRUST™, a 501(c)(3) independent nonprofit
organization that seeks to reduce the progression of chronic kidney
disease through no-cost, rapid screening in non-medical
settings.
More than 100 Tour DaVita participants have signed up to have
their kidneys screened at no cost by The Kidney TRUST during this
year’s event.
Tour DaVita, which is organized by Backroads, the “world’s #1
active travel company™”, has previously taken place in
Tennessee/Alabama (2007), Wisconsin (2008), Michigan (2009),
Washington State (2010), Connecticut/New York/Massachusetts (2011)
and Iowa (2012).
To date, Tour DaVita has helped raise more than $4 million for
nonprofits dedicated to raising awareness for kidney disease and
expanding access to dialysis care in developing countries.
Participants have collectively ridden more than 433,000 miles over
the six years the ride has taken place, challenging themselves and
their fellow riders to go as far as possible.
Corporate sponsors for this year’s Tour DaVita include Amgen,
ASD Healthcare, Baxter International Inc., Golden Construction
Development Company, Inc. and NxStage Medical, Inc.
For more information about the seventh annual Tour DaVita,
please visit tourdavita.org. For more information about The Kidney
TRUST, please visit kidneytrust.org. For more information on
Backroads, please visit backroads.com.
DaVita and Tour DaVita are registered trademarks of DaVita
HealthCare Partners Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
About DaVita
DaVita is the dialysis division of DaVita HealthCare Partners
Inc., a Fortune 500® company that, through its operating divisions,
provides a variety of health care services to patient populations
throughout the United States and abroad. A leading provider of
kidney care in the United States, DaVita delivers dialysis services
to patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal
disease. DaVita strives to improve patients’ quality of life by
innovating clinical care, and by offering integrated treatment
plans, personalized care teams and convenient health-management
services. As of June 30, 2013, DaVita operated or provided
administrative services at 2,010 outpatient dialysis centers
located in the United States serving approximately 159,000
patients. The company also operates 48 outpatient dialysis centers
located in ten countries outside the United States. DaVita supports
numerous programs dedicated to creating positive, sustainable
change in communities around the world. The company’s leadership
development initiatives and social responsibility efforts have been
recognized by Fortune, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek and WorldBlu.
For more information, please visit DaVita.com.
About The Kidney TRUST
Founded in 2006, the Kidney TRUST is a national non-profit
organization dedicated to reducing the human and economic cost of
kidney disease. The Kidney TRUST is focused on increasing awareness
of chronic kidney disease (CKD) through public education and
early-detection testing programs so that progression of CKD to
kidney failure can be delayed or prevented. The Kidney TRUST is
also developing innovative solutions to address the critical unmet
needs of people with CKD. Visit www.kidneytrust.org for more
information.
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