The Rapid Start Initiative sites featured in this section were selected to ensure representation across location/region, state Medicaid expansion status, urban-rural classification, jurisdiction or individual clinic implementation, care setting, population size, priority populations served, and other unique features that helped the provider site implement Rapid Start services successfully.
Each site includes an “at-a-glance” document that highlights key features of their Rapid Start program, brief animated video providing an overview of the site’s Rapid Start service provision, a process map depicting workflow, and a comprehensive description of how Rapid Start services are provided.
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- Asian Health Services (AHS) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that specializes in serving medically underserved, immigrant, and refugee Asian clients in Oakland, California.
- Community health center rapid start services delivered as part of a Virginia statewide initiative, with a focus on sexual minority clients.
- Rapid Start services provided as part of a Part A wide initiative, with Part B collaboration. Borinquen serves a diverse patient population, including Hispanic and Haitian clients.
- The Max Clinic community health center partners with a walk-in STI clinic and serves client with complex medical and social service needs.
- Howard Brown Health's rapid start services use linkage care teams who manage clients through their visits and deliver follow-up services including ongoing case management and access to pharmacy services.
- Positive Care Center is a HIV primary care clinic with pharmacists embedded within their core staffing model.
- The 1917 Clinic community health center has an onsite pharmacy that plays an integral role in providing clients with access to ART on the same day they are seen in the clinic.
- Rapid start services to a large county, including vast rural areas. Newly diagnosed patients are identified through onsite testing, surveillance data, and referrals from the local emergency departments.
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