agency and project title template
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Agency and Project Title Template. Improvement Strategies : Describe the current gaps identified in your linkage/retention systems & the tests of change or interventions you selected to address these. Our Aim : Describe the aim/goal of your quality work. What are you trying to accomplish?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Agency and Project TitleTemplate
Improvement Strategies:• Describe the current gaps identified in
your linkage/retention systems• & the tests of change or interventions
you selected to address these.
Lessons Learned• Describe what you learned from your test
of change and intervention?
Our Aim:• Describe the aim/goal of your
quality work. What are you trying to accomplish?
Performance Measurement:• Display of baseline (April) and
June Performance
Next Steps• Continue with PDSA cycles?
• Sustain gains?• Integrate into delivery care system?
Linking LGBT Young People to HIV Primary CareHeights Health Center
• Discrimination and Alienation; Stigma; lack of trust/comfort in “traditional” services for homelessness/adults.
Lessons Learned:• Testing small scale changes across agencies
requires a clear plan & delineated responsibilities
Our Aim:• Improve linkage to HIV primary
care for newly diagnosed homeless LGBT youth to 95% by 12/2012.
Next Steps:• Develop a clear plan with Community
House and peers to test and measure the impact of escorts
Dec-Mar 12
Feb -May 12
10%30%50%70%90%
Baseline % of Newly Diagnosed Linked to HIV Primary Care within 30 days
Review period
% Li
nked
to H
IV C
are
Interventions:• Partner with Community House to provide
peer escort to escort newly diagnosed patients to HIV primary care
• Establish offsite support/educational group for newly diagnosed LGBT in collaboration with Community House
Barriers to Linkage:
System Gaps: • No current system in place to keep this
population connected to ongoing PC