Dedicated clinic keeps lupus patients out of the ER.

It's not the first clinic devoted to a single chronic disease, but the newest clinic at Atlanta's Grady Hospital is unique because it addresses patients with lupus--an autoimmune disease that is not yet particularly well understood. Nonetheless, clinic staff maintain there are still opportunities to better manage the disease, and to provide patients with education and support that can help sustain them through the disease's sometimes unpredictable flare-ups.