Building Capacity to Implement Rapid ART Start

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Implementation Guide outlines the steps and best practices for adopting Rapid Start ART services from pre-implementation considerations through strategies to support sustaining Rapid Start ART as standard of care.

Quality Improvement Tools offer frameworks and metrics to enhance service delivery and track patient outcomes.

Process Maps

Fact Sheet: Rapid Start Process Maps

Tutorial: Use of Process Maps to Establish/Improve a Rapid Start Program

Tutorial Slides: Use of Process Maps to Establish/Improve a Rapid Start Program

Site Process Maps

• DAP Health Process Map
• Golden Valley Health Center Process Map

PDSA Methodology

Tutorial: PDSA Methodology and Application to Rapid Start

Tutorial Slides: PDSA Methodology and Application to Rapid Start

Site Protocols detail specific procedures and workflow maps tailored to different clinical settings.

Tutorial: Rapid Start Protocol Development Process

Implementation Site Protocols

• CBO: Allies in Hope
• FQHC: AltaMed
• ASO/FQHC: DAP Health
• FQHC: Golden Valley Health Center
• Health Department/FQHC: Multnomah County HIV Health Services Center
• FQHC: St. John's

Site Spotlights showcase successful models and strategies from participating sites.

Coming Soon

• Closing Linkage-to-Care Gaps for Clients in Ryan White Program Clinics: The SPNS Rapid Start Initiative. 2022 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care & Treatment
• Rapid start antiretroviral therapies for improved engagement in HIV care: implementation science evaluation protocol. BMC Health Services Research. 5/17/23.