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Another component of this collaboration is ongoing training and education.
The Center's staff will also benefit from a number of workshops and seminars organized by the UCLA medical professionals. We have more details about that educational program, and we also spoke to a sickle cell anemia patient about how this new initiative will help him and others like him:

Laxmi Suthar - Program Director, UCLA Olive View Internal Medicine Residency Program
"As we all recognize in the medical community it is really important to have on going medical education for both the providers but also for our patience. So I help run the residency program which is a training program, 75 physicians and as part of that education we also teach them also to be teachers and the idea will be to have a sharing of ideas between the physicians here as well as the physicians which will be visiting from UCLA. We would like to be able to do seminars and have teaching sessions where nurses, physicians, medical students can get updates on disease illnesses that may be affecting the population here. Chronic disease management, things like how do you manage diabetes or hypertension in the most cost conscious way by providing the highest quality care possible."

Erwin Ramos - Sickle Cell Anemia Patient
"It is something good for the community, it's something good for the country on a whole that why I said we as sickle cell patience we should not be hiding, the parents should not be hiding us anywhere, they should bring us out. Let them know that you are a patient too so that you could get the treatment that's the only way you could survive or live longer."

In terms of the future of the partnership , there are plans to build another clinic to care for more patients. And of course more planning will be needed to expand this initiative to other parts of the country.