Patients with hemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura and other bleeding disorders are evaluated and treated with the most current therapies. Appropriate support for patients and parents is offered as needed. Nurse coordinators educate and coordinate the patient’s care in clinic as well as at home.

Treatments that once required a child to be admitted are now often given on an outpatient basis. Patients visiting the hematology/oncology outpatient clinic at Children’s Hospital are treated in an environment that places the comfort and care of the child and family first. In the hospital’s Ambulatory Care Center, a separate patient suite with a private entrance and waiting area has been dedicated for patients with cancer or blood disorders. The location is convenient for families and provides the safest and protective conditions for immunocompromised patients.

Patients visiting our outpatient clinic are closely monitored by their pediatric hematologist/oncologists and nurses and receive a variety of treatments, including blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, gammaglobulin infusions, factor concentrates, and chemotherapy treatments.

In addition to eight private rooms, a large treatment room provides patients an opportunity to interact with other patients, watch TV, choose videos from a movie library, play games or simply relax while receiving treatments. With an average of 25 to 30 patient visits a day, the clinic is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

If the need arises during a clinic visit, patients can be promptly admitted to the hospital’s acute care unit, designated specifically for hematology/oncology patients.