Choosing an Improvement Project Lesson Set
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Adoptive parents of children living with HIV will discuss issues that impact their lives in conjunction with findings from a study on adoptive parents’ experiences. The panelists will explore the differences in their parenting decisions and advise clinicians on practical ways they can support families in navigating these personal choices.
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Despite systemwide efforts to increase capacity for quality improvement (QI) there remains challenges in bridging the gap between quality improvement concepts, best clinical practices, and client barriers to quality care. To address this gap, the Broward EMA utilized a learning collaborative approach to improve providers’ capacity to conduct QI.
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HRSA/HAB Policy Clarification Notice 15-02 provides guidance on Clinical Quality Management (CQM) program infrastructure components. The content will focus on planning your CQM program, developing your work plan, and building the CQM committee. This session is intended for people with less than two years of experience in CQM.
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Recipients determine how subrecipients will contribute to the recipients’ Clinical Quality Management (CQM) program. Recipients will share how to meet the HRSA HAB policy clarification notice (PCN) 15-02 guidance regarding CQM program activity identification for their subrecipients and how to confirm subrecipients have the capacity and resources to contribute to the recipient’s CQM program.
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This informative, interactive workshop will inform participants of the basic tenets of developing and revising a clinical quality management (CQM) plan and associated work plan, based on operational capacity and CQM program planned activities. Using their own CQM plans, participants will assess and revise each section with the guidance of subject matter experts.
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University of Mississippi Medical Center utilized known barriers to care for postpartum women with HIV and leveraged that information to schedule individualized interactions with pregnant and postpartum women with HIV. This low-cost, low-effort initiative resulted in statistically significant improvements in both retention in care and viral suppression rates in postpartum women with HIV.
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The Linkage to Care (LTC) Program at Denver Health/Denver Public Health is an innovative model using continuous quality improvement and community partners to close gaps in the HIV care continuum. This linkage model serves those seeking HIV prevention service as well as people with HIV seeking linkage and retention in care.
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Establishing an opt-out HIV screening program in the emergency department has almost quadrupled HIV screening rates and has identified new and out-of-care cases. Utilizing a continuous quality improvement approach has allowed it to become a catalyst to improve workflows for other gaps in University Medical Center of Southern Nevada's HIV care continuum process.
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Learn about strategies for improving access to oral healthcare through better integration of electronic health and dental records and regular communication across dental and medical settings. Hear from recipients who participated in technical assistance site visits to improve oral health and primary care integration discuss experiences and lessons learned from their own integration efforts.
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Improving Hepatitis C surveillance can help RWHAP jurisdictions identify, monitor, and connect coinfected people with HIV to Hepatitis C (HCV) care and treatment. This panel will provide an opportunity to hear federal updates on Hepatitis C surveillance and learn about a data-to-care approach and overcoming surveillance data gaps.
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In this interactive workshop, participants will learn real-world strategies to effectively apply quality improvement methodologies to mitigate HIV disparities. Workshop attendees will be introduced to the end+disparities ECHO Collaborative, the largest virtual community of practice of its kind. A panel of presenters will share their improvement interventions combating health disparities.
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Through creative innovation, multiple approaches have been employed to assist patients with medication adherence. This presentation will look at the introduction of a clinical pharmacist in an urban, Ryan White-funded clinic, the impact on medication adherence, and the viral suppression and demographic trends observed over four years.
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Staff from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and CRI will present the fundamentals, best practices, and innovations for their clinical quality management (CQM) program that aimed to improve timely enrollment and retention in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). The presentation will include an overview of the transition to self-attestation and how organizational change supported a quality-driven approach.
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People with HIV 50 years and older is a rapidly increasing population with unique needs. The presentation summarizes a population-based approach to assess those needs and to respond with training and other resources. Presenters will describe the implementation of the approach by the New York City EMA in partnership with the Northeast/Caribbean AETC.
Resource (Conference Presentation) updated 09/14/2023