Rapid Start Service Delivery Models

Rapid ART Dissemination Assistance Provider

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. 

Asian Health Services

This community health center serves medically underserved, immigrant, and refugee Asian clients in Oakland, CA. Their HIV clinic provides comprehensive HIV treatment and prevention services, including Rapid Start.

Borinquen Health Care Centers

This FQHC provides Rapid Start services to a primarily Hispanic and Haitian client base at nine locations in the Miami, FL area. They work closely with local Part A and Part B programs.

Kern County HOC

The Health Officer's Clinic in this rural/suburban California county offers STI testing, PrEP/PEP, and Rapid Start, and partners with local EDs to identify patients for treatment & linkage services.

LGBT Life Center & CAN Community Health

This Norfolk, Virginia-based community health center is part of a statewide initiative to adopt Rapid Start as standard of care in Ryan White-funded program settings.

The Max Clinic

The Max Clinic in Seattle, WA supports clients who have complex medical and social needs, and who are not well-engaged in HIV care. They utilize a unique, incentivized approach to keep clients engaged in care.

University of Alabama at Birmingham’s 1917 Clinic

This large clinic focuses on low-income, under- or uninsured HIV+ adults. The onsite pharmacy offers clients access to ART on the same day they are seen in the clinic.   

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