The Psychology of Change: Understanding the Human Side of Change to Advance and Sustain Improvement
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RWHAP Technical Assistance Provider updated on 03/04/2024
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The Virginia Ryan White Part B (RWB) Peer Review Team works in collaboration with 24 subcontractors receiving RWB funding to evaluate qualitative and quantitative service data. Peer Reviewers are experts and provide services for RWHAP in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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This presentation will share innovative strategies in the creation of a reflective Consumer Advisory Board, HIT HIV. The presentation will showcase quality improvement projects the HIT HIV CAB completed while leveraging technology, social media, consumer feedback, and CQM principles ensuring a community-driven and equitable process toward ending the HIV epidemic.
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Review of data on delivery of rapid start of ART among New Jersey providers, including, for example, provision of same-day medical appointments, extended office hours, and comfort administering rapid start with high need patients.
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Review of rapid ART features to reduce time to ART from 7 to 1.6 days, including pre-visit benefits navigation, manufacturer discount cards, prescribing to in-house pharmacies, email distribution lists, and post-prescriptive follow-up.
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Virginia quality improvement program that identifies access to medication barriers and provides emergency medication supplies to people with HIV if no timely access is secured.
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Community Health Awareness Group worked remotely for nearly a year due to COVID-19 and observed staff anxiety as it transitioned to in-person work. A quality project was undertaken using CQI methods to identify and reduce staff burnout. The project proved that the practice of self-care techniques decreased staff stress.
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The Baltimore City Health Department Ryan White Program utilizes a variety of methods to engage stakeholders including program monitoring, technical assistance, and learning opportunities among staff, sub-recipients, and consumers across the Baltimore EMA. The program also leads a cross-network QI team to implement interventions, strengthening its QI efforts.
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Oral health of RWHAP participants remains a critical area of unassessed unmet need. Normative data needs and SWOT analyses indicated need for process improvement strategies involving providers for better data quality. Voluntary oral health data reporting is a key barrier to understanding/tracking the oral health status of RWHAP participants.
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A NJ clinic has implemented multi-site STI screening for the clinic population and for higher risk groups. Gains made in implementation through prior quality initiatives were not sustained. The clinic worked collaboratively with a quality coach to identify how and why rectal swabs are overlooked, particularly when indicated.
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Harris Health System began its Rapid Eligibility and ART Dissemination & Implementation (READI) program in 2019. Here, we present two years of data that examine linkage to care, ART initiation, viral loads, completion of medical visits, and demographics for patients who received READI services and those who did not.
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