Sunday, November 24, 2024
11/24/2024
With the approval and funding of its proposed Family Planning Program, the CEPDPH will provide a comprehensive menu of services to women and men (1,400 each year) in its service areas, comprised of El Paso and Hudspeth Counties. The CEPDPH will designate family planning clinics at its centrally-located flagship campus, located at 5115 El Paso Drive. This location is ideal because of its location in a one of the poorer areas of the service area and because of its close proximity to University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). This area of El Paso is widely-known as a medical hub for the community and is easily navigated by public transportation, having access to two main public transportation routes. Family planning services will be provide on a fixed schedule to maximize department resources and ensure that the family planning services remain viable throughout the funding period. The schedule will include at least ten-hour clinics from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays with a fully staffed clinic setting, having at least one nurse practitioner and two medical assistant to attend to patients. Moreover, the CEPDPH’s clinic will be open Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. should a patient need to be seen outside the regularly scheduled family planning clinics. Family planning services will be provided on a sliding fee scale based on family income, namely family incomes that do not exceed 250 percent of the federal poverty level. Persons whose family income does not exceed 100 percent of the federal poverty level will not be charged a fee for family planning services rendered, as required by the Department of Health and Human Services. CEPDPH will be able to charge third party insurances and Medicaid for services rendered through it family planning services to further ensure its fiduciary viability. CEPDPH Family Planning Services will include the following: • Counseling for all patients on effective methods to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including delaying the onset of sexual activities, or if already sexually active, choosing to avoid sexual activity for a defined period of time; • Patients will also be counseled on their options, including instruction in fertility awareness-based methods provided by medical staff knowledgeable and trained in providing instruction in these methods; • Counseling and prescriptions for contraceptive methods, including hormonal oral contraceptives, rings, and patches, injection, implants, intrauterine devices, barrier methods, and permanent sterilization. • Pregnancy testing and counseling; • Basic infertility services; • STD prevention education, screening and treatment; • Cervical cancer screening; • HIV testing and referral for treatment and prevention, including evidence-based interventions, as well as assessments and prescriptions for PrEP, as appropriate, • Screening for depression, tobacco use, and substance use/abuse, and, • Patient navigation to support the continuity of care by linking clients to other internal and external health & human services. Moreover, the CEPDPH will be able to provide vaccinations for HPV through its immunizations program. Screening for cervical cancer, and screening for obesity, smoking, drug and alcohol use will be provided onsite. Breast cancer screenings can be provided by the CEPDPH’s Medicaid Waiver Program through a contractual agreement with TTUHSC. Persons needing smoking cessation will be linked to CEPDPH’s Tobacco Exposed prevention education program and persons needing mental health and intimate partner violence prevention services will be linked to Family Services of El Paso.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
