Words Matter: The Power of Language to Strengthen Services for HIV and Substance Use Disorder
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We used a data-driven, mixed method approach to develop a community planning and budget tool to inform resource allocation decision-making to achieve health equity in HIV outcomes among RWHAP clients in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Transitional Grant Area.
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Using a multidisciplinary approach to harness the electronic patient portal for completion of RWHAP six-month recertification documents, we were able to create a more patient-centered method that complies with program requirements. We will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and results of using such technology in program recertification.
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RWHAP Part A programs in Florida are housed within county governments, not the state department of health. This prevents direct data sharing, leading to outdated out-of-care (OOC) lists. Migration of residents between counties complicates the management of OOC lists, creating a need for streamlined data exchange and matching.
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The syndemic of opioid use disorder, HCV and HIV and stigma causes burdens on individuals and the system. Integrating siloed systems of care is critical to addressing this crisis. Overlapping cascades of care are key to understanding the empirical relationships of these diseases and opportunities to identify, prevent and co-treat.
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Data Systems are often black holes, where agencies enter in data, but are not able to efficiently access useful and actionable data back out to take actions to improve services. Learn how panel participants are using innovation and participatory design to provide useful tools and data to the front lines.
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Positive Health Clinic successfully completed a quality improvement project related to our EMR, EPIC. The focus of this project was streamlining data collection, data utilization, and reporting processes in the EMR. The enhancements to our EMR yielded improvements in three areas: communication across disciplines, formalized treatment plans, and data reporting.
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Creation on pop-up mobile clinics, created in partnership with an established Syringe Support Program (SSP) and academic organizations, to provide one stop STI/HCV/HIV testing and COVID-19 vaccination for people experiencing substance use/homelessness, who have increased risks for these conditions.
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Description of HRSA's Best Practices Compilation (targethiv.org/bestpractices), which allows organizations to submit information about their interventions and to search and identify interventions that may work for them.
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We will describe the development, early implementation, and simultaneous stepped-wedge evaluation of a novel structural intervention to promote viral suppression and reduce health disparities. The “data-to-suppression (D2S)” intervention involves enhanced Health Department data sharing and capacity building with providers of RWPA mental health, harm reduction, supportive counseling, and housing services.
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The U.S. opioid epidemic has significant impact on rates of overdose deaths among people with HIV. The aim of the project was to leverage the PDSA methodology to enhance a population-based, health information technology, intervention to facilitate the identification and panel management of high-risk clients with opioid use disorder.
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Discussion of HIV prevention and care efforts for Black women across HHS agencies and highlight of the RWHAP Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) initiative: Improving Care and Treatment Coordination for Black Women with HIV.
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Overview of RWHAP SPNS E2i Initiative implementation materials.
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Housing First is an effective, cost-efficient, evidence-based best practice that demonstrates improved health outcomes and care utilization for people experiencing homelessness, including people with HIV (PWH). Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative is a unique opportunity for HRSA-funded Jurisdictions to support the uptake and implementation of the Housing First model in their communities to prevent new HIV diagnoses and engage people with HIV who are outside the current system of care.
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