Rena N. Grant Sickle Cell Center 

What is sickle cell disease?

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. Approximately 100,000 Americans and over 4,000 South Carolinians have sickle cell disease. It is a life-limiting disease that affects all parts of the body, causing multi-system complications that often result in life-threatening infections, stroke, and organ damage.

Outpatient and inpatient specialty services.

Because sickle cell disease is a complicated condition, we offer a broad range of specialty services to meet the needs of patients 18 years of age and older with the disease. The care team includes a medical director, advanced practice providers, registered nurses, a pharmacist, a psychologist, hematologists, a complex pain specialist, a social worker, and a clinical care coordinator.

Patient and family education, as well as counseling, is incorporated into all clinic visits. Our clinic provides acute care for patients with pain, fever, and other complications of sickle cell disease and comprehensive, routine care and disease-specific management.

Sickle Cell services we offer

• Preventive care
• Transfusion therapy
• Disease-modifying therapy
• Care coordination
• Acute pain management
• Complex Pain Management
• Research treatment options
• Specialized pharmacy services

Sickle Cell conditions we treat

• Sickle cell disease

• Sickle cell anemia

• Sickle cell trait counseling