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Since 1998 Joyce F. Jackson has led Northwest Kidney Centers as president and chief executive officer. Her organization delivers 80 percent of dialysis in King and Clallam counties, about 200,000 treatments each year. Northwest Kidney Centers (NKC) provides dialysis to people with kidney failure, who require the treatment to stay alive, in 14 centers, 11 hospitals and 210 homes. NKC also conducts an active public education program called LivingWell with Chronic Kidney DiseaseTM and was the instigator of the Kidney Research Institute, a collaboration with UW Medicine. With $83 million in revenue for fiscal 2009, NKC is one of the area’s largest nonprofits. David Peel, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Healthcare News, asked Ms. Jackson a few questions in this December 2009 interview.