title: Sickle cell center provides model for management of chronic disease.
abstract: Coordination, round-the-clock care reshapes sickle cell care. Sickle cell patients at Grady Health System in Atlanta know what it's like to be kept waiting interminably in the emergency department, sick and in pain. They even know how it feels to be mislabeled as drug addicts. No more. The Sickle Cell Center at Grady brings high quality care to such patients, improving outcomes, lowering costs, and increasing the satisfaction of those who use it.
mesh_terms: D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000628:therapy*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration