Benefits of Comprehensive Care

Given the complex nature of bleeding disorders, the value of providing need for continuing comprehensive care cannot be emphasized enough.

From diagnosis, to the decision to initiate prophyalxis, to management of acute bleeding events, an experienced team is critical to the care of individuals with bleeding disorders. Anticipating and preventing or treating bleeding events, particularly hemophilic arthropathy and treatment related complications such as inhibitors reduces overall morbidity, hospitalizations, mortality and improves quality of life. This mission to provide a holoistic approach to the care of patient with a bleeding disorder is accomplished by our multidisciplinary team of providers who have experience and expertise specific to bleeding disorders. The importance of psychosocial support and counseling, along with other services like genetic counseling, are important in rounding out all aspects of dealing with this lifelong inherited condition.

The New York Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment Center also enables patients to stay abreast of the most recent developments in research through patient meetings and discussion at annual comprehensive care visits. The Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment Center conducts clinical studies and participates in multicenter trials of newer therapies, encouraging patients to participate and contribute to our better understanding of their disease, and in turn benefitting the bleeding disorders research field itself and future generations of patients.

The New York Comprehnesive Treatement Center has assembled a multidisciplinary team of physicians and providers, all of whom have deep interest, experience and expertise in treating patients with bleeding disorders. This includes nurses, nurse practioners, high-risk obstetricians, fertility experts, orthopedists, geneticists and genetic counselors, social workers and psychologists.

All of our facilities are provided in one location, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, an internationally recognized academic hospital and medical research facility.