Harlem Hospital’s new Adult Sickle Cell Clinic now runs full days on Mondays and Fridays, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. NYC Health + Hospitals announced the expanded hours Wednesday, September 16, during Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

The clinic opened in January inside the hospital’s Adult Primary Care service at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem. It works as a medical home: adults living with the disease get sickle cell care, preventive care and chronic-disease care from one team in one place, and the same primary care physician who treats their sickle cell disease also handles routine care such as a flu shot or a blood pressure check.

Services at the clinic include hydroxyurea and other preventive medications that lower the risk of severe symptoms, preventive screening tests, pain management, care navigation and reproductive counseling. The team also includes a social worker and a community health worker who help patients with mental health needs such as depression and anxiety and with problems such as food insecurity and unstable housing.