Mother-daughter duo graduate nursing school together after battling kidney disease

Kidney care company spun off from Baxter earlier this year establishes headquarters in Deerfield

Vantive, a kidney care company that was spun off from Baxter International earlier this year, will establish its headquarters in Deerfield. Vantive, which formerly operated as Baxter’s Kidney Care segment, will invest $23 million in the headquarters site at 510 Lake Cook Road. Equipment manufacturer Caterpillar formerly occupied the site. The new headquarters will allow Vantive to expand its facilities and pharmacy operations, creating at least …

One sister’s life-saving gift: ‘It was my honor. She’s my person,’ Babst says of donating a kidney - American Press

Looking at her now, one wouldn’t know Anne Griepsma has gone through multiple major surgeries, including a recent life-saving kidney transplant. Griepsma says the selfless gift of organ donation by her sister, Dr. Alice Babst, is the reason she is thriving today. “If I didn’t know all the things that have happened over the past couple of years, I would think we were just rolling with life,” Griepsma, a nurse practictioner, said. “I forgot that t…

Mother-daughter duo graduate nursing program together after kidney donation and transplant

Five years of dialysis, a kidney donation and transplant and a whole nursing program later, the mother and daughter are set to graduate next week.

Mother donates kidney, then graduates nursing school with daughter

Five years of dialysis, a kidney donation and transplant and a whole nursing program later, the mother and daughter are set to graduate next week.

Mother-daughter duo graduate nursing school together after battling kidney disease

Five years of dialysis, a kidney donation and transplant and a whole nursing program later, the mother and daughter are set to graduate next week.

‘She gave me life twice’: Mom, daughter graduate nursing school together after kidney transplant

A mother and daughter are graduating from nursing school together after going through a medical journey of their own.