Enhanced Patient Navigation for Women of Color with HIV

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This intervention is part of the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions project—the first SPNS project of its kind to apply a rigorous implementation science approach and evaluate intervention replication and fidelity of evidence-informed intervention models across the country.

This patient navigation intervention has been informed and adapted from the best practice findings of a past SPNS initiative that yielded successful HIV care continuum outcomes among client participants.

A Patient Navigation Intervention

Patient navigators provide enhanced navigation services, in addition to the clinic’s existing case management standard of care. Core intervention components include:

  • Assessing client needs and developing a care plan
  • Conducting six structured education sessions
  • Participating as a member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team

Replication Package Resources

These evidence-informed intervention resources were developed to support interested sites in replicating this intervention and the necessary implementation processes.

Training to Implement

Additional Information

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About This Intervention

  1. What is it?
    A structured patient navigation model to increase retention and ultimately improve health outcomes among women of color.
  2. Why is it needed?
    Patient navigators are critical members of the healthcare team focused on reducing barriers to care for the client at the individual, agency, and systems levels.
  3. Who can deliver it?
    Organizations, agencies, hospitals and clinics considering integrating a structured patient navigation model to increase retention.
  4. How do I use these resources?
    These resources are meant to support replication of the intervention. Manuals outline replication processes and curricula support training activities. Additional resources help provide insight from grant recipients or from other areas of the project.

Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs)

An outcome of the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Intervention project is the development of Care and Treatment Interventions (CATIs). These are replication resources that have been tested across the country on four key evidence-informed intervention topics. CATIs help arm Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients with tested SPNS models that they can apply at their sites, clinics, and jurisdictions to advance the HIV care continuum and in advancing the goals to Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE).