Felicia Speed is the Vice President of Social Work Services for Fresenius Medical Care North America, the nation’s leading network of dialysis facilities. She currently provides oversight and guidance to social workers across the country and has been working as a dialysis social worker in various capacities for almost 20 years. After obtaining her Bachelor’s in Social Work from Winthrop University and Masters in Social Work from the University of Georgia in 1999, she accepted a position as a social worker for Anderson Dialysis Clinic. Since that time, she has dedicated her career to addressing psychosocial barriers among dialysis patients with kidney failure by improving social work competency. Felicia has also been successful in collaborating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve patient-provider relationships. Her greatest accomplishment is simply improving the quality of life of a dialysis patient.
