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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?.
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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. • Our Aim: • Describe the aim/goal of your quality work. What are you trying to accomplish? • Lessons Learned • Describe what you learned from your test of change and intervention? • 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 • System Gaps: • No current system in place to keep this population connected to ongoing PC • Our Aim: • Improve linkage to HIV primary care for newly diagnosed homeless LGBT youth to 95% by 12/2012. • 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 • Lessons Learned: • Testing small scale changes across agencies requires a clear plan & delineated responsibilities Barriers to Linkage: • Discrimination and Alienation; Stigma; lack of trust/comfort in “traditional” services for homelessness/adults. • Next Steps: • Develop a clear plan with Community House and peers to test and measure the impact of escorts