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The Health Care Innovations Exchange is an AHRQ program designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Explore this site to find innovative strategies and quality-related tools, learn how to improve your organization's ability to innovate and adopt new ideas, and interact with innovators and adopters.
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November 24, 2008 (Missed an issue of What's New? Visit the Archive.)
The theme of this issue is improving HIV prevention, detection, and treatment. The featured innovations focus on providing outreach and community-based services to high-risk populations.
The Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment project uses specially trained community health workers to deliver culturally competent, home-based support services to help HIV-positive patients in the inner city.
The Medical Outreach Program enhances services provided to unstably housed, minority individuals with HIV by including physicians on the community outreach team who provide general medical consultation, triage, acute care, evaluation, and prescriptions for needed medications.
The Rapid HIV Testing Program provides sexual health education and counseling to at-risk youth, rapid HIV testing, and individual counseling to those who test positive; the program is conducted in community-based settings that are easily accessible to the target population.
The featured QualityTools provide practical ways to improve HIV counseling and testing, client reporting, and skill-building.
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Last updated: November 24, 2008.
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