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EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES - University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. 501 E. Broadway, Medcenter One, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40202 · 550 Clinic Address: 550 South Jackson Street, 2nd Floor, Louisville, KY 40202 · Capric Walker, Program Director · Email: cmwalk08@louisville.edu · Telephone: (502) 852-3489 · Fax: (502) 852-9228 Grant Program Funds Requested: · Early Intervention Services/Core Medical Services, including salary and Fringe for medical providers and staff, medical transportation, medications and vaccinations, and laboratory services. · Clinical Quality Management (CQM), including salary and fringe for CQM staff. · Support Services include salary and fringe for support services staff, travel and training for professional development, emergency financial assistance (EFA), food bank support, and linguistics support. Project Description · General Overview of Model of Care and Need: The 550 Clinic is the sole public, Fellowship-trained HIV primary care provider in our service area. We also staff Infectious disease practitioners to serve all clients irrespective of their insurance status. Our unique clinical structure provides for incarcerated patients or those individuals recently released from in-patient care. Our interdisciplinary care team is structured to achieve the goals of the care continuum more efficiently, from Rapid Start Linkage to treatment adherence and case management support, and it includes nutritional and mental health counseling services. The Uniqueness of our onsite screening lab and in-house pharmacy that is unavailable elsewhere in the service area, with direct referral to an onsite PrEP clinic, a structure unavailable elsewhere in our service area, positions our program to best provide for the needs of the populations we serve. · Key Services and CQI Measures: Counseling and Testing, OAHS, Early Intervention, Rapid Initiation in Care, Linkage and Retention, Medical Transportation, Emergency Financial Assistance, Trans health initiatives, comprehensive medical care, and Viral Suppression and Adherence. · Population to be served: 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, and underserved people living with HIV/A. Serving more than 30 counties across central Kentucky and Southern Indiana. o # of Part C Eligible patients served -approximately 2800 patients in the KIPDA Region of Kentucky and Southern Indiana o Part C Eligible Population: Based on current evidence-based health disparities, our priority populations are Black MSM, Women of color including transgender women.
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