Friday, May 2, 2025
5/2/2025
Ryan White Title III HIV Capacity Development and Planning Grants - - Project Title: FY 2024 RWHAP Part C Capacity Development - Applicant Name: Sun River Health, Inc. - Address: 1037 Main Street, Peekskill, NY 10566-2913 - Project Director Name: Anne K. Nolon, MPH, Chief Executive Officer - Phone Numbers Voice: 914-734-8747 Fax: 914-734-8745 - E-Mail address: anolon@sunriver.org Website: www.sunriver.org - Funding Amount Requested for One-Year Project Period: $150,000 - Statutory Preference: Qualification 2: Underserved Sun River Health is a New York State-licensed Diagnostic & Treatment Center and a federally qualified health center (FQHC), recognized by the NCQA as a Patient Centered Medical Home. Sun River Health has been providing comprehensive HIV care & treatment for approximately 35 years. - Identification of the selected category: Sun River Health is seeking Part C Capacity Development funding to implement an Infrastructure Development Project – Telehealth to support a purchase of two (2) firewall system CPU/hardware unit to upgrade telemedicine security and improve telemedicine capacity. - Needs to be addressed: Sun River Health serves over 2,500 people living with HIV, across a large geographic area of southeastern New York State. The Health Center’s Part C patient population experiences myriad economic, social, and structural challenges to accessing health care services. Telemedicine has made a significant impact on providing increased accessibility to our Health Center services that would otherwise be challenging for our patients with HIV. The Health Center serves a significant minority population as well as populations experiencing poverty, who tend to experience greater challenges resulting from social determinants of health (SDoH), and the increased availability of telemedicine as an option for these patients has resulted in improved no-show rates, as well as positive patient feedback as patients have experienced improved options and flexibility for scheduling their visits. Telemedicine has been a particularly important source of improved access for people with HIV, which has made substantial impacts on health equity. That increased access and usage, however, has also resulted in the need for a larger capacity and more robust internet security apparatus. In addition, Sun River Health’s current firewall system is at its “end of life,” meaning the vendor will soon no longer provide ongoing support and maintenance and will no longer support software upgrades to Sun River Health’s current hardware. - Proposed services: Sun River Health is requesting Ryan White Part C Capacity Development funding to purchase upgraded firewall system CPU/hardware units as well as the initial licensing fees and vendor support and maintenance services for the duration of the implementation period. These firewall units will allow for higher availability and redundancy of telemedicine services. By upgrading our current systems, the Health Center will be able to intercede to stop malicious actors attempting to compromise our infrastructure to access protected health information, interrupt operations, and create ransomware events. The increased throughput will enable an expansion of the quantity of data that can be processed and passed through the firewall, which will improve telemedicine capacity. Through the resulting telemedicine security and capacity update, Sun River Health’s project will address critical gaps in HIV care in treatment in underserved communities, and ultimately improve patient experience and health outcomes among the target population throughout southeastern New York State. - Population group to be served: Sun River Health’s proposed project targets the more than 2,500 people living with HIV served at our 16 Part C-funded program sites across the Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.
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