Improvements in HIV Viral Load Suppression With Modified Patient Contact Methods
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This presentation will describe two innovative mental health quality improvement initiatives for youth. The presentation will focus on the specifics of delivering brief mental health in-clinic interventions and the development and implementation of youth peer support groups within the pediatric HIV program in the ‘hot spot' of the national HIV epidemic, Washington, D.C.
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The road to ending the epidemic must be paved with community engagement. Community health care workers (CHWs) represent the voice of the community and play a vital role in linkage and retention to care. DC Health piloted three innovative care models to strategically ensure the community's voice is permanently embedded in HIV services.
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Through the Southern Initiative, CAI supported four Part A agencies in the South in integrating a Community Health Worker (CHW) model to address disparities in HIV outcomes. The session will describe the development of systems to collect, report, and use real-time data to track implementation progress and client outcomes. Results reveal promising client outcomes.
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Linkage Navigation Program provides an immediate connection to same-day medical care and medical case management services, promoting timely linkage to care and services, and tailored individualized care operationalizing initiatives such as Test N Treat and Test N PrEP with positive health outcomes for Ryan White clients.
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Presenters will describe a New York City collaborative pilot project utilizing Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) to locate lost-to-care people with HIV. Lost-to-care encounter alerts provide community-based organizations with actionable, real-time data to supplement their ‘classic' care engagement efforts. The model offers a potentially scalable, cost-effective strategy for patient re-engagement efforts on a population level.
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Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program uses an innovative care model, designed from the margins, to meet the complex needs of people living at the intersections of HIV, homelessness, substance use disorder, and incarceration. Such models hold promise for closing HIV care and prevention equity gaps for this hyper-vulnerable group.
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This session will discuss engagement and re-engagement of newly diagnosed clients and clients lost to care through the provision of personalized assistance and support designed to increase access to specialty 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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This peer-led workshop will include skills-building interactive sessions about two evidence-informed interventions that address trauma and addictions among people with HIV, specifically Trauma-Informed Approach & Coordinated Assistance and Navigation for Growth and Empowerment (TIA/CHANGE) and Seeking Safety.
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This 101 session will provide a broad overview of unstable housing, homelessness, and their impact on health outcomes. Participants will gain a basic understanding of why and how RWHAP recipients should consider integrating housing resources into their systems of care.
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This interactive panel describes and discusses the development of comprehensive-care models that provide high-quality, coordinated team-based care with sustained improvements in health outcomes. Participants will leave with Ryan White-compliant strategies for 340B and other resources to develop innovative and integrated solutions that improve patient outcomes and engaged teams.
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This presentation focuses on peer-based training for engaging consumer voices in HIV providers' quality improvement efforts. Community-based, peer-led efforts impact HIV care program effectiveness. Peer-led training concentrating on client advocacy and involvement in quality improvement is another method for promoting intentional collaboration between HIV service programs and people with HIV.
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This workshop will explore the implementation of peer-led, evidence-informed interventions for transgender women with HIV. The programs are Healthy Divas, and Transgender Women Engagement and Entry to Care Project (T.W.E.E.T.). Attendees will learn the core elements of these interventions and how they improve engagement in care, treatment adherence, and viral suppression in Alabama and Michigan.
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Community Health Workers (CHWs) were added to the care team to work with clients with poor treatment adherence and not viral load suppression (VLS). Clients benefited from CHW services that contributed to VLS in over 50% of the clients assigned to them. CHWs are vital in ending the epidemic in challenging client populations
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Ryan White Part B fiscal monitors in Texas developed processes and tools to identify, track, and report program income generated through the 340B program and other sources of revenue. Tools include a spending plan template and an allocation worksheet, which will be shared with other RWHAP recipients in this workshop.
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This workshop will present the 6Ms, a simplified approach to geriatric principles for HIV care: Mobility, Mentation, Medications, Matters Most, Multicomplexity, and Modifiable. The role of the 6Ms in clinical care and identification of older adults at greatest need will be considered; clinical models of geriatric care with potential for widespread implementation will be presented.
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The PATHways Program at Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic is an interdisciplinary, nursing-led program designed to reach people who are traditionally challenging to engage in care. We have helped over 80% of participants achieve viral suppression. We offer our approach as a case study of a successful innovative model of care.
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This session will highlight the adoption of a systems-level intervention aimed at identifying and addressing special causes variations in patient and client outcomes. Multidisciplinary case review team members will discuss their experiences with this intervention and how they leverage data and tailored services to improve outcomes.
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