QUESTION
Which New York City Health and Hospitals facilities provide genetic testing for sickle cell disease?
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All New York City Health and Hospitals hospital facilities currently offer pre and post conception genetic testing for sickle cell disease.
- Patients at Gotham Clinics need to be referred to hospital facilities for genetic testing.
- Referrals for specialized services from primary care clinics to hospital facilities are standard practice.
- Primary care clinics are not designed to be full-service operations.
Mercedes Narcisse
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But we talk about any other diseases, but let's cell disease much, which HNS facilities provide pre and post conception genetic testing for sickle cell disease.
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If it is not yet available, when do you expect these services to be available at each and each facilities?
Mitch Katz
0:55:58
We provide them at all of our facilities currently.
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All of our hospital facilities.
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All the hospitals.
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Right.
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So the someone would have to for some of those services, if they were at a Gotham Clinic, they would need to be referred to the hospital.
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But that's typical.
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We do that for all sorts of things.
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Primary care clinics were not meant to be full service operations.