Ryan White 2012 Grantee Meeting

Advancing HIV care in primary care settings first requires clinical training and education to ensure quality care. Quality clinical care must be supported by effective practice transformation to ensure access to patient focused fiscally sustainable organizations. The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model is being implemented nationally, and directly supports the second National HIV/AIDS Strategy goal of increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for PLWH. Performance improvement training aligned with the PCMH model on income generation, access, population management, and linkages is fundamental to expand and sustain access to HIV care. Ryan White providers are essential to ensuring the successful expansion of HIV care through primary care providers, as well as to sharing best practices and creating sound partnerships with primary care organizations to enhance quality and ensure equity.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the fiscal and other non-clinical capacity-related organizational challenges faced by primary care settingswhen improving or adding HIV care services.
• Explain the importance of fiscal and other non-clinical education and training in supporting organizational infrastructure growth and HIV clinical expansion.
• Describe the role of Ryan White-funded organizations in engaging community health centers, primary care associations, and other primary care organizations to support infrastructure growth and HIV clinical expansion for successful integration of HIV into primary care.