Submitted by Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute
The Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute (BCDI), located in Peoria, Illinois, stands as the only federally recognized non-profit Hemophilia Treatment Center (HTC) of Excellence in downstate Illinois. Dedicated to providing integrated, family-oriented care, BCDI offers comprehensive services to individuals affected by bleeding, clotting, and other blood disorders. At the heart of BCDI’s approach is the designation as a certified Medical Home, ensuring that patients receive individualized care that is tailored to their unique needs.
The Medical Home Model
A Patient-Centered Medical Home is a healthcare delivery model that emphasizes comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated care. In this model, a team of healthcare professionals manage and facilitate all aspects of a patient’s health, ensuring seamless access to necessary services and fostering a holistic approach to well-being. This approach is not so different from the care BCDI has always offered its patients, which you may know as the HTC comprehensive care model.
The mission of the BCDI Medical Home is to provide exceptional care using a patient-centered environment for children and adults with bleeding, blood clotting, and other blood disorders. Through collaboration with each individual, specialist, hospital, and other healthcare providers, the patient always remains the focus of care and receives the benefits of a smooth healthcare continuum.
At BCDI, the Medical Home model is exemplified through a multidisciplinary team of board-certified hematologists: Dr. Michael Tarantino, Dr. Jonathan Roberts, and Dr. Maria Espanol. BCDI’s hematologists lead the comprehensive care team, which also includes advanced practice providers, nurse coordinators, physical therapists, social workers, registered dietitians, dentists, laboratory scientists, pharmacists, and more. This collaborative team works cohesively to treat the whole person, not just their symptoms.
How Does Medical Home Help You?
Medical Home is a model for achieving patient care excellence so that the right care is received in the right place, at the right time, and in the manner that best suits our patients’ needs. It is a place where patients are treated with respect, dignity, and compassion, which enables strong and trusting relationships with providers and staff.
The BCDI Medical Home team is committed to providing comprehensive, individualized care and continual communication from a unified team of providers whose goal is to provide their patients with the support, education, and resources that they need in order to achieve optimal results with the greatest ease. The BCDI Medical Home promises that all comprehensive services provided to patients will be:
- Patient-Centered: A team of care providers that is wholly accountable for a patient’s physical and mental health care needs, including prevention and wellness, acute care, and chronic care. BCDI ensures strong communication with its patient’s primary care providers and other specialists pertaining to overall patient care.
- Comprehensive: BCDI’s commitment to the medical home model is further demonstrated through comprehensive care clinics, which offer personalized care from compassionate, experienced staff, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to address all aspects of a patient’s health- mentally, physically, and psychosocially. Services include early diagnosis and intervention, assessments and treatments by a team of hematologists, and education and training in self-care and health management.
- Coordinated: Care is organized across all elements of the health care system, including specialty care, hospitals, home health care, community services, and support.
- Accessible: Patients are able to access services through “after-hours” care, 24/7/365 electronic or telephone access, and have the ability to schedule same-day appointments for urgent needs.
- Committed To Quality & Safety: Ongoing quality improvement using evidence-based medicine, shared decision-making with patients and families, as well as measuring and responding to patient experiences and patient satisfaction.
Centrally Located
BCDI has 10 outreach comprehensive care clinic locations throughout Illinois. Alongside our state-of-the-art, 22,000 square foot campus in Peoria, BCDI also hosts comprehensive clinics in Arthur, Carbondale, Champaign, Decatur, Macomb, Moline, Ottawa, Rockford, and Springfield. BCDI’s tagline of “The Blood Experts” is not just a catchy phrase; it’s our commitment to providing the highest level of care and experience relating to bleeding, blood clotting, or other blood disorder conditions. Our expert BCDI staff treat conditions such as Hemophilia A and B, von Willebrand Disease (VWD), Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), various factor deficiencies, deep vein thrombosis/ pulmonary embolism (DVT/PE) and much more. By treating the whole person and not just their symptoms, BCDI ensures that patients receive personalized healthcare with the goal of achieving the highest quality of life.
BCDI offers a full range of HTC services outside of our clinic walls with the BCDI laboratory, pharmacy and educational services. The BCDI laboratory hosts an experienced phlebotomy staff that provides individualized, low-stress blood collection services. Our phlebotomists are skilled in blood collection techniques for all ages, and the BCDI lab scientists perform many specialized tests needed for diagnosis and treatment monitoring at our Peoria campus. The BCDI pharmacy program is designed for patients to reduce the amount of time spent waiting for prescriptions to be filled or delivered. Through our participation in the federal 340B drug discount program, BCDI is able to provide significant savings to consumers and their insurance providers when utilizing our in-house pharmacy, with deliveries sent directly to your home via commercial carrier or handed over directly by a BCDI staff courier. BCDI recognizes the importance of patient education, support and advocacy. The Institute provides a variety of resources, including educational handouts, mentoring programs for newly diagnosed patients and their families, and information on managing specific conditions. These resources empower patients to take an active role in their care and management.
During March, BCDI invites you to join the conversation in raising awareness about bleeding disorders and advocate on behalf of bleeding disorders patients! BCDI will be shining the spotlight regarding bleeding disorders, providing education, and helping spread awareness about these conditions that are held dear to BCDI’s mission. If you would like to learn how you can get involved and take part in Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month, be sure to keep tabs on the BCDI Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ILBCDI) throughout March!
