WUPD Celebrity Canines – Bear and Brookie – Visit Village Square Dialysis Unit

To the delight of patients and staff, local canine celebrities Bear and Brookie made their rounds at WashU Nephrology’s Village Square Dialysis Unit last week. Bear and Brookie, a pair of Labrador mix pups rescued from a rural Missouri dump in 2023, became official University employees last year when they joined the WashU Police Department […]

Social Worker Lexi Poepper Joins WashU Nephrology at Forest Park Kidney Center

Please welcome Alexis “Lexi” Poepper, MSW, LMSW, as our new Social Worker at Forest Park Kidney Center. Lexi earned a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of Central Missouri, completed a master’s degree in social work at the University of Missouri – Columbia, and is a licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) in […]

Garden Greets Patients and Staff at Village Square Dialysis Center – This Year Sunflowers, Next Year Butterflies?

“We will see what springtime brings,” says Thomas Gowen, Jr, RN, as he contemplates what to plant next year in the raised-bed area in front of WashU Nephrology’s newest dialysis facility. Gowen, the Nurse Manager of the Village Square Dialysis Center in Hazelwood, MO, planted sunflowers this past spring and the results were spectacular.  “This […]