Improving Oral Health Services for PLWH Through Provider Training and Needs Assessments in Arizona
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Data systems are often black holes, where agencies enter data but are not able to efficiently access useful and actionable data back to take actions to improve services. Learn how the Connecticut Department of Health is using disruptive innovation and participatory design to provide useful tools and data to the front lines.
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Cooper EIP Expanded Care Clinic in Camden, NJ has incorporated comprehensive Addictions Medicine (AM) care as part of its treatment model for people with HIV. A cohort of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) diagnosed patients displayed significant levels of VLS after enrolling in AM services.
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This presentation will review the many roles a clinical pharmacist can play in improving patient care, such as providing medication education, conducting adherence counseling sessions, facilitating transitions in care, providing comprehensive medication chart reviews, and aiding with the formation of complex treatment regimens. Pharmacists' involvement in pre-exposure prophylaxis will also be reviewed.
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This session will examine the components of a successful HIV treatment and care model targeting foreign-born and other vulnerable patient populations. Key elements of the model will be reviewed, including the role of the multidisciplinary, multicultural team, and program infrastructure supporting a regular review of patient data and clinical quality measures.
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This interactive workshop will review updated data and discuss implementation challenges, facilitators, and best practices for routine screening/linkage in an emergency department with urban and rural challenges. Preliminary data from the initial two months (with more than 2,000 patients screened) include .7% HIV (including three acute infections), 7% Hepatitis C (HCV) and 5.2% syphilis.
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Quality improvement is dependent on a strong system of data collection, management, and analysis. The Learners Education and Practice Portal (LEAPP) developed by the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) at the University of Pittsburgh has an integral role in providing AETCs with quality improvement opportunities through the Six Sigma model of quality improvement.
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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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The New York City Health Department has scaled up The Undetectables Viral Load Suppression Program, in collaboration with the program developer (Housing Works) and other stakeholders, by integrating the program into existing HIV medical case management service delivery.
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Health Educators play an important role in managing the health of people with HIV by increasing the health literacy of patients and improving adherence to medications. In a Ryan White clinic, Health Educator-driven interventions may be essential to assuring better patient outcomes by improving viral suppression and managing comorbidities.
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Pharmacists are a great way to decrease medication errors, expand the providers of HIV care services, and ensure continuity of care among people with HIV within a Ryan White clinic nested in an academic hospital.
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This workshop will highlight the AIDS Education Training Centers' (AETC) Core Training activities from 2016 through 2019, focusing on types of providers reached, priority training topics, and training modalities. Two AETCs will share experiences engaging rural jurisdictions with low-volume HIV providers and approaches for reaching providers in the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative jurisdictions.
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The Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education & Training Center ACCESS program is designed to build community-level capacity for HIV treatment of high-need, medically underserved, minority populations in the Northeast/Caribbean region at both the individual and site levels. This presentation describes the program and its impact from the coordinator, trainer, and participant perspectives.
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The MidAtlantic AETC Practice Transformation Project (MAAETC PTP) focuses on 11 Ryan White clinics and federally qualified health centers in the region. Through the MAAETC PTP, multiple clinics showed key improvements in areas focused on by the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative, namely increasing HIV testing rates, improving linkage to care, and the implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis.
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The U.S./Mexico border region has some of the nation’s poorest health outcomes. The US/Mexico Border AETC Steering Team (UMBAST) has provided HIV-related training with multiple federally funded training centers for 15 years. This workshop will share UMBAST’s resources, lessons learned, best practices, and future plans.
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