ANNA Heart of America Chapter 313

10/24/2026

Oh yay for Heart Of America

Celebrating our Success

10/21/2026

I’m a little behind on posting, but this evening deserves a big thank-you! 💙

Our ANNA Heart of America Chapter gathered on October 6 for our annual dinner meeting and election of officers.

Thank you to Jason Schwenker and Dr. Lund from Nebraska for an excellent conversation about rare disease and IgA nephropathy (IgAN), and to Calliditas for sponsoring the evening!

Thank you to everyone who joined us to learn, connect, and support our chapter. Congratulations to our chapter leaders:

• President: Amy Connell
• Secretary: Ashley Arrowood
• Treasurer: Tracy Moore
• Health Policy Representative: Molly Cahill

A special thank-you to Jennifer Branch for her ongoing support as our Chapter Mentor!

Grateful for this group and everyone who gives their time and talent to keep our chapter strong!

09/14/2026

Happy Nephrology Nurse Week!
How are you celebrating?

09/13/2026

Happy Nephrology Nurse week to all!!
Organized Games at Camp Chimer end of July ✅
Served at Harvesters Food Bank✅
Kansas and Missouri Proclamations ✅
To all our NN colleagues- thank you for all you do!!

09/09/2026

09/09/2026

Feed Your Kidneys 2026
We gathered at Harvesters food bank in Kansas City last night to provide education, and worked as a team to pack over 100 boxes of healthy snacks that will be distributed in the area.
Local leaders, champions, and a few family worked the line, add some fun, and presented harvester’s with a check to feed more! 

08/26/2026

Heart of America 313
We got our Kansas Nephrology Nurse Week Proclamation

Thank you to Governor Kelly!!
Sept 13-19th NNW

08/05/2026

Thanks to Venus and Dr Tuffaha for a great presentation and discussion about Fabrys..
we had less crowd (August, vacations, a few cancellations) but appreciate all who came out!!

08/02/2026

Chapter members took a shift of activities on Friday Night at Camp Chimer in its 40th Summer for Children’s Mercy and NKF -
ANNA Heart of America plus a few family recruits -
Served as game leaders in a rotation through the camp outside on a gorgeous night on Friday in Kansas City!!
Granddaughter and I did Cyber Cash Heist … and with this activity we made do for lots of adjustments with darts and wheelchairs and sometimes had to just skip the rules..
Husband and son were on duty for picking up superballs out of pasta with your toes or feet- they reported that one girl set a record for 9 balls in 30 seconds - to be quickly replaced by 12 balls in 30 seconds … the boy was nine balls in 60 seconds … Girls Rule!! lol.. 
Amy Connell was trying to proved some safety at the bounce house - meanwhile they were flying by to the the sq**rt guns (Say ‘water fight’)
Ashley Arrowood took charge at the cup stacking station for Pyramid panic.
And Tiffany Brown was in for a crazy time at Sonic Shootout ..
We all did set up and take down and had a blast!
Best part of the whole process was watching them let go and so many laughs…

07/04/2026

Happy 250th Birthday USA