Bellevue man honored by Northwest Kidney Centers
Published 1:27 pm Thursday, June 27, 2013
Clint Randolph of Bellevue has received the Clyde Shields Distinguished Service Award from Northwest Kidney Centers.The award is the organization’s highest recognition and given to people who make significant contributions to the welfare of kidney patients through advocacy, clinical care or research.
Randolph was selected because of longstanding service on the nonprofit’s board of trustees and its foundation board, which supervises fundraising. The retired Boeing executive provided volunteer leadership for challenging assignments: helped to found Northwest Kidney Centers’ formal regulatory compliance program in 2000; served as foundation board chair while Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation was legally integrated into the dialysis-providing organization; and co-chaired the organization’s first capital campaign, which raised $1.7 million to create a comprehensive kidney resource center at 700 Broadway in Seattle.
“Clint graces us with wisdom, contemplation, integrity, and dedication to vulnerable patients, especially the sickest ones who need special care,” said Joyce F. Jackson, Northwest Kidney Centers president and CEO. “Northwest Kidney Centers is unique in the country for the depth of community involvement in our nonprofit’s governance. Clint’s contributions are a shining example of that valuable commitment.”
The award is named for machinist Clyde Shields, who in March 1960 became the first person in the world to receive dialysis on an ongoing basis. is one of very few community-based, nonprofit dialysis providers in the country. It provides treatment in 15 dialysis centers in King and Clallam counties, as well as 11 area hospitals and the homes of 246 patients who do self-dialysis.
