DENVER, Dec. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Falcon Physician was presented with the Gold award in the 7th Annual Golden Bridge Awards® for its Product Management Department. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, innovations and more from every major industry in the world. Winners were honored in San Francisco on Monday, November 16, 2015 during the 7th annual awards dinner and presentations.

The Falcon Physician team creates innovative IT solutions for nephrology and offers support for those solutions. The Falcon^® suite of products includes a nephrology-focused electronic health record (EHR) as well as mobile tools. In the last 12 months, Falcon released a smartphone app for dialysis order review and signing and redesigned the dialysis rounding app for iPad^®.

"Our team has worked hard to create innovative nephrology-focused tools in order to ultimately improve patient care," said Emily Bonham, Falcon Physician Director of Product and Marketing. "We are honored to be recognized for our commitment to usability and continuous improvement."

About Falcon Physician
The Falcon Physician product suite integrates with the dialysis center and doctor's office to manage kidney patients' health records from CKD through ESRD and can be accessed wherever there is internet access. Developed in collaboration with practicing nephrologists, Falcon's technology tools are supported by a dedicated team of health technology experts. For more information, email falcon@davita.com or call (877) 99-FALCON.

About DaVita HealthCare Partners
DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., a Fortune 500® company, is the parent company of DaVita Kidney Care and HealthCare Partners. DaVita Kidney Care is a leading provider of kidney care in the United States, delivering dialysis services to patients with chronic kidney failure and end stage renal disease. As of September 30, 2015, DaVita Kidney Care operated or provided administrative services at 2,225 outpatient dialysis centers located in the United States serving approximately 177,000 patients. The company also operated 104 outpatient dialysis centers located in 10 countries outside the United States. HealthCare Partners manages and operates medical groups and affiliated physician networks in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida and Colorado in its pursuit to deliver excellent-quality health care in a dignified and compassionate manner. As of September 30, 2015 HealthCare Partners provided integrated care management for approximately 808,000 patients. For more information, please visit DaVitaHealthCarePartners.com.

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best Products and Services, Innovations, Management and Professionals, Women in Business and the Professions, International Business, Corporate Communications, PR and Marketing, Product Management, Customer Service, Support, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Company Milestones. Learn more about the outstanding performances in the workplace recognized by Golden Bridge Awards worldwide at www.goldenbridgeawards.com.

DAVITA, FALCON and FALCON PHYSICIAN are trademarks or registered trademarks of DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc.  Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 

Contact: 
Jill Rankin
303-405-2002
jill.rankin@davita.com

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