The 550 Clinic is the sole public, Fellowship trained HIV primary care providers in our services area. We also staff Infectious disease practitioners to serve to all clients irrespective of their insurance status. Our unique clinical structure provides for incarcerated, or those individuals recently released from in-patient care. Our interdisciplinary care team structure begins which is designed to achieve the goals of the Care continuum from Rapid Start Linkage, treatment adherence, case management support includes nutritional and mental health counseling. The Uniqueness of our onsite screening lab and in-house pharmacy that is unavailable elsewhere in the service area, with direct referral to onsite PrEP clinic, a structure that is unavailable elsewhere in our service area, positions our program to best provide for the needs of the populations we serve. WICY population constitutes approximately 30% of the 550 Clinic active patient population. Averaging 500 – 600 WICY patients per year of a total of 2000 HIV positive patients in care at the clinic. The University of Louisville HIV Program at the 550 Clinic, Division of Infectious Diseases remains a central provider of comprehensive multi-disciplinary, family-centered HIV primary medical care in an outpatient or ambulatory care setting to low income, medically vulnerable, medically underserved WICY living with HIV/AIDS within the KIPDA (Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby Spencer, and Trimble Counties), Lincoln Trail (Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties) and portions of Barren River (Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Monroe, and Warren counties). Our Part D service area also includes several Southern Indiana counties including Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio, Orange, Perry, Scott, Spencer, Switzerland, and Washington counties. Based on an analysis of our community’s critical need and greatest current evi
dence-based health disparities, our priority WICY populations are Women of color including transgender women, African American youth. While our clinical program will evaluate all of HAB performance measures annually, there are several Key Services and CQI Measures that we will specifically target as part of this project critical area of assessment: Counseling and Testing, Rapid initiation in Care, Linkage and Retention, Transhealth initiatives, comprehensive medical care and Viral Suppression and Adherence.