HRSA Awards $4.9 Million for Hemophilia Treatment

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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

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HRSA Awards $4.9 Million for Hemophilia Treatment

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration has announced more than $4.9 million in grants to support diagnostic and treatment services for an estimated 30,000 men and women with hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders and their families.

The 12 regional grants support a network of about 130 Hemophilia Treatment Centers located throughout the country. Those centers offer health management and prevention services to people with bleeding disorders, using multi-disciplinary teams of health care specialists, state-of-the art clinical research programs, and outreach and education programs.

“These grants treat people with hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders by supervising the medical and psychosocial aspects of the disease,” said Dr. Peter van Dyck, HRSA's associate administrator for maternal and child health. “We believe this holistic model of care greatly improves the quality of life for them and their families.”

Each year about 400 babies are born in the United States with hemophilia, which is characterized by delayed clotting of the blood that can result in difficulty controlling bleeding after even minor injuries. Hemophilia primarily affects males.

The program is funded through the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS). The list of grant awards follows:

Comprehensive Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Centers Grants, FY 2008

Organization	City	State	Amount
Children's Hospital of Orange County	Orange	Calif.	$740,719
Univ. of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center	Aurora	Colo.	279,866
Hemophilia of Georgia Inc.	Atlanta	Ga.	231,274
University of Massachusetts Medical School	Worcester	Mass.	275,885
Hemophilia Foundation of Michigan	Ypsilanti	Mich.	390,391
Children's Mercy Hospital	Kansas City	Mo.	396,775
Mount Sinai School of Medicine	New York	N.Y.	590,283
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	N.C.	316,175
Oregon Health and Sciences University	Portland	Ore.	191,366
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pa.	567,392
The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Houston	Texas	458,710
Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation Inc.	Milwaukee	Wis.	474,439
Total			$4,913,275

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. HRSA also is responsible for promoting and improving the health of our nation's women, children and families. For more information about HRSA and its programs, visit www.hrsa.gov.