Operation Sickle Cell, Inc. & Stedman-Wade Federally Qualified Health Center of Fayetteville, North Carolina Receives $1.28 Million Grant From HRSA
Posted on: Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 12:00 CST
Operation Sickle Cell, Inc. of Fayetteville, North Carolina, in collaboration with the Stedman-Wade Federally Qualified Health Center, has been awarded $1.28 million over the next four years from the Health Resources & Services Administration to address the needs of sickle cell disease patients.
The grant, one of four awarded nationally, is to fund a pilot program that establishes a seamless continuum of care for adult and pediatric sickle cell disease patients in the four North Carolina county areas of Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett and Robeson. Results from the four grants will guide national policy regarding services to the sickle cell community.
Partners in this project include Duke University Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Southern Regional Family Medical Center, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center Emergency Services Department and Fayetteville State University. The partners will work together to enhance the prevention and treatment of sickle cell disease through the coordination of service delivery, genetic testing and counseling, bundling of technical services and training of health professionals.
Telemedicine technology is being planned to help ease the geographic and financial burdens that low-income rural sickle cell patients endure in getting access to specialty care. In addition, there is a chronic shortage of Hematologists and other specialty care providers in eastern North Carolina. The telemedicine network will include Stedman-Wade Health Center and Operation Sickle Cell, Inc., the latter being a 'community-based' site for the network with Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center providing the needed specialists for consultation.
ABOUT SICKLE CELL DISEASE
Sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells, is the most prevalent genetic blood disease in the world and can be found among African Americans, Africans, Latin Americans, Brazilians, Greeks, Italians and Indians. Currently there is no universal cure for sickle cell disease. A simple painless blood test followed by a laboratory technique called Hemoglobin Electrophoresis will determine the type of hemoglobin a person has.
ABOUT OPERATION SICKLE CELL
Operation Sickle Cell, Inc., founded by Mary E. McAllister, has a 34-year history of providing services that benefit the sickle cell patient population. OSC, Inc. currently provides over 300 sickle cell patients with disease education, counseling, case management, on-site Duke Medical Clinics, support groups and a summer camp. Most of these services are supported by State government funds, and are offered free of charge to residents of Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and Robeson counties.
ABOUT STEDMAN-WADE HEALTH SERVICES
Stedman-Wade Health Services operates a federally qualified health center for the residents of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the surrounding areas. Their mission is to provide a quality, accessible range of primary medical and dental health care services to a population that has the 3rd highest number of uninsured patients in the state.
Source: Business Wire
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