Baton Rouge – The Department of Health and Hospitals—Office of Public Health and theLouisiana Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center with Tulane University have made arrangements with the Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center in HoustonTexas to ensure that patients receive their blood clotting products when needed.

Caregivers and patients may call the following numbers for more information:

 

Contact or Agency

Telephone Number

Karen Wulff, R.N.,

Nurse Coordinator

La. Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center

573-582-0826

504-390-2057

The Hemophilia 24-Hour Hotline

225-925-2400

The National Hemophilia Foundation

Louisiana Chapter

225-291-1675

Gulf States Hemophilia Thrombophilia

Center

HoustonTexas

713-500-8360

 

The Gulf States Center should be called directly for patients sheltered in Texas and any patients inLouisiana with a life or limb threatening bleeding episode requiring hospitalization.

For more information on the recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina, visitwww.dhhemergencynews.com

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