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If the honest answer is four to six weeks, you now have a faster option — without replacing the hematologist you already use.
Premier Hematology gets appropriate patients in front of a hematology provider within 48 hours. Telehealth consultation, in-house labs, and infusion therapy across 14 New York locations.
The panel comes back Tuesday. Ferritin is low, hemoglobin is worse than last time — well past the point where oral iron and a recheck in three months is the right answer.
So you tell her she needs to see a hematologist. You give her a name.
Then the sentence you've said a hundred times:
“They should be able to get you in sometime in the next few weeks.”
From there, it's a coin flip:
And she is not calling the hematologist's office to ask what's taking so long.
She is calling yours. Because you're the doctor she trusts, and you're the one who told her she needed this.
Now run the same Tuesday — but this time, you refer her to Premier.
She hears from a hematology provider on Wednesday. She is evaluated Thursday — inside 48 hours — by telehealth, so she is not waiting for a room to open up in a building forty minutes from her apartment.
She starts treatment the following week at whichever of our 14 New York locations is closest to her.
Consultation notes and labs come back to your office.
Same patient. Same panel. Same practice. Five weeks removed from the middle of it — because she was seen within 48 hours instead of five weeks.
Typical referral path
With Premier Hematology
That is the entire reason Premier Hematology exists: appropriate patients in front of a hematologist within 48 hours.
Fourteen locations across New York. In-house labs. Full infusion therapy at every site. A hematology and oncology practice built, from the ground up, to move fast on exactly the kind of referral you send every week.
Dr. Delfino Crescenzo leads the clinical side. Medical degree from the University of Bologna. Internship and residency at The Jamaica Hospital. Fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Montefiore, and thrombosis and hemostasis on top of that.
He's supported by a team of nurse practitioners, including one who specializes specifically in hematology and women's health, so your referral isn't landing on one overbooked physician's desk. It's landing on a team built to absorb it.
This is the only thing we do.
It's not a side service. It's not a department competing for the same rooms as five other specialties.
Hematology and infusion therapy is the entire practice, which means your referral isn't squeezed into a schedule built for something else. It's the reason the schedule exists.
of primary care physicians report dissatisfaction with the outpatient referral process and with specialist communication.
Gandhi TK, et al. Communication breakdown in the outpatient referral process. J Gen Intern Med. 2000;15(9):626–631.of specialists say they routinely send consultation results back. Only 62.2% of primary care physicians say they routinely receive them. That gap is not a perception problem. It is a workflow problem.
O'Malley AS, Reschovsky JD. Referral and consultation communication between primary care and specialist physicians. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(1):56–65.Studies of diagnostic referral workflows have found the loop fails to close in as many as 65% to 73% of cases — inconsistent handoffs, manual workarounds, follow-up that depends on a sick patient remembering to follow up.
Nehls N, et al. Systems engineering analysis of diagnostic referral closed-loop processes. BMJ Open Qual. 2021;10(4):e001603.You did your job. What sits between your office and the specialist is where it breaks down.
Practice owners and office managers know this one by heart.
The patient calls. Have you heard anything?
She calls again. Can you get me in sooner?
Your coordinator calls the specialist's office and sits on hold. Records get requested twice. Someone has to tell an anxious patient, again, that there's nothing to do but wait.
None of that is clinical work.
All of it is staff time you're paying for and not billing for.
A referral pathway that actually moves takes this off your desk entirely. The patient gets contacted. The patient gets scheduled. The documentation comes back on its own. Nobody on your team spends an afternoon chasing anything.
Most specialists don't own their offices. They're renting time in a building shared with five other practices, working around someone else's schedule, someone else's staff, someone else's queue. That's what creates the four-to-six-week wall. Not indifference. Just too many people competing for the same room.
Premier owns its own locations. Fourteen of them, across New York, built to do one thing: serve hematology patients.
It's exclusively a hematology and oncology practice, with an intake and medical team built around helping a new patient fast, not squeezing it in between everything else on the schedule.
That's why an appropriate patient can be seen in office within 48 hours.
Your office sends us the patient's information. One step. Nothing new for your staff to learn.
Our team reaches out within 24 hours and books the appointment. We don't wait on a sick patient to find twenty free minutes to sit on hold.
At the Premier location nearest her, with a hematology provider. Evaluated. Worked up. Plan set. Telehealth is available too, if that fits her better.
Labs and infusion, right there, at whichever of the 14 sites fits her life. Consultation, testing, and treatment inside one network. No third handoff to a facility that's never seen her file.
Some referrals feel like a one-way door. The patient goes in, and somehow you're managing your own patient from the outside.
Not here. We treat the iron deficiency, the anemia, whatever needs a specialist.
You send us a patient. You get back a patient, plus their labs and paperwork.
From a doctor, as a patient
“I am an MD myself, different specialty. This practice is top notch. I had low ferritin, not anemic, which was symptomatic in the context of marathon training. I was seen the next day for a consult.”
On speed
“Called the very next day for a consultation appointment. Treatment was done very quickly.”
“There is rarely a wait time.”
“The timeline getting set up was super quick, doctor visit to first infusion.”
“I was always seen right away.”
What she'll tell people you sent her to
“They got my hemoglobin levels at the correct level. Always been on point with scheduling.”
“Have been receiving infusions here for two years and treatment always the same.”
“Convenient location. Telehealth was also convenient.”
From patients other providers already send here
“My OB referred me to a hematologist. Raquel was really helpful reviewing my lab results and advising on next steps.”
“So glad my PA referred me here.”
“I thank God everyday that my cardiologist sent me to Doctor D. He saved my life.”
CDC data puts anemia prevalence at 14.0% of women ages 20 to 59, and 17.4% of girls ages 12 to 19, driven constantly by heavy menstrual bleeding and pregnancy.
Premier has a nurse practitioner who specializes in hematology and women's health specifically, Yocheved Brazil, board certified with the AANP, Master of Science from Stony Brook.
Iron infusions during and after pregnancy are routine work here:
“They helped me receive iron infusions during and after my pregnancy. I highly recommend them.”
“I used their clinic for iron infusions during pregnancy and was impressed with their efficient service and competent staff.”
If you are managing iron deficiency in pregnant and postpartum patients and your current pathway is slow, this is the exact gap we fill.
Hematologist & Oncologist
Undergraduate, Manhattan College. Medical degree, University of Bologna. Internship and residency, The Jamaica Hospital. Clinical fellowships in hematology at The Jamaica Hospital and oncology at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center. Additional fellowship training in thrombosis and hemostasis.
Nurse Practitioner
Shani Spector is a dedicated Nurse Practitioner with a Master's in Nursing from Stony Brook University. She brings a wealth of expertise in in-patient oncology, hematology, and infusion services. Beyond her commitment to patient well-being, she finds balance by staying active and spending time with her husband and children.
Nurse Practitioner
Yocheved Brazil is an adult primary care nurse practitioner who specializes in hematology and women's health. She completed her Associates in Nursing at the Phillip's Beth Israel School of Nursing, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Thomas Edison University, and earned her Master of Science degree at Stony Brook University. She is board certified with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
Family Nurse Practitioner
Ariella Goldhammer is a compassionate Family Nurse Practitioner holding a Master's in Nursing from the College of Mount Saint Vincent. With a focus on primary care, hematology, and infusion services, Ariella brings a diverse range of expertise to our team. Outside of work, she dedicates her time to volunteering in her community.
Telehealth consultation is also available across the entire network.
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Not sure if a specific patient even needs hematology?
That's exactly what the call is for. Bring the case, or just bring the question. You don't need a diagnosis in hand to book this.
No obligation to refer. No minimum volume. No exclusivity. No contract.
Test it with one patient. Send the next one who needs to be seen fast. If the appointment is quick, she comes back satisfied, and the paperwork lands on your desk, you'll know everything you need to know. If not, you've lost nothing.
Keep one option, or have two. Right now, when your usual specialist is booked five weeks out, you tell her to wait. With a second option on file, you don't.
Fifteen minutes sets it up.
15 minutes. Phone or video. No obligation to refer anyone — just get a second, faster option.
In fifteen minutes, your practice gets a working referral pathway to Premier, built and ready before you ever need it.
Skip the front desk. You go straight to the person who does the intake for your patient.
We identify which of the 14 sites and which telehealth options fit where your patients actually live.
A short list of the situations where your patient shouldn't wait, so your team knows the moment to call us instead of your usual specialist.
Premier accepts insurance. We confirm the specifics for your patient mix on the spot.
One page. The steps, the contact, the locations. Your front desk uses it without asking you first.
Fill out the short form below.
Tell us the best time of day to call you.
Leave the call with a working referral pathway on file.
Three quick questions so we know your practice before we call, then your details. We call you at the time of day you pick — 15 minutes, no obligation to refer.
Prefer to talk now? Call 718-866-3037. Need to refer a patient today instead? Use the physician referral form.
For referring providers and practice staff in the New York metro area.
No. Most practices that work with us keep their existing referral relationships and use Premier when they need faster access, a more convenient location or telehealth. Additional, not replacement.
Yes. We confirm the details for your specific patient population on the call.
Yes. We handle the hematology and the patient stays under your care. Consultation notes and lab results are sent back to your office.
Then the call is still useful to you. Sorting out which presentations warrant hematology evaluation is part of what we cover.
You will have a direct contact and a defined process, established on the call. Nothing for your staff to learn in advance.
No. No minimums, no quotas, no exclusivity, no contract.
That is what the 14 locations are for. We map the ones that make sense for your population on the call.
Yes. Referral coordinators and practice administrators are exactly who makes this work in practice. Book the call and bring a physician in if you want one.
Fifteen minutes. If you want to end it at twelve, end it at twelve.
It might be tomorrow. It is probably someone with a ferritin low enough that you do not want to tell her to wait five weeks — and right now, that is the only thing you can tell her.
Fifteen minutes today means that when it happens, you already have somewhere to send her. Hematology consultation inside 48 hours. Treatment near where she lives. Documentation back on your desk.
You don't have to change anything. You just need a second option.
15 minutes · No obligation to refer · Insurance accepted · 14 New York locations · 4.9 Google rating