Services
Our Services
Our staff works as a team with our patients and their families to provide the best possible care, including:
- Coordination of newborn screening, diagnosis and treatment
- Full-service medical care from a multidisciplinary team of specialists
- State-of-the-art screening and prevention programs to avoid complications
- 24-hour emergency care
- Prenatal diagnosis and counseling
- Education and support programs for newborns, children, teenagers, adults and family members
- Assistance with the transition from pediatric to adult care
- Psychological and social services
- Assistance with school issues
- Summer camp for children 7-12 years of age, and their siblings
Social Services
Families and patients often face difficulties in managing sickle cell disease. We have a psychologist and social worker on our team dedicated to providing quality care to our patients and their families. Services include supportive counseling, referrals to other social service agencies, educational programs for schools and other community groups, and consulting on financial issues.
Newborn Screening
Every baby born in Ohio is given a simple blood test to determine the child's hemoglobin type. If the initial newborn screening test shows sickle cell hemoglobin, another test is done to confirm the initial result. Medical care and education may begin once the diagnosis is made. In collaboration with our physicians, our newborn screening coordinator contacts the families of newly diagnosed infants to offer specialized medical care and genetic counseling for the family.
Young Adult Clinic
Because sickle cell disease is a life-long illness, patients need medical management from birth through adulthood. As patients become older, they face challenges that are somewhat different than when they were children. The Young Adult Clinic helps prepare patients to make the transition from the CSCC to an adult health care provider. In their early 20s, most of our patients transfer their care to an adult provider. Our partnership with University Hospital and the Sickle Cell Awareness Group in the Teen and Young Adult Clinic helps make this process easier.
