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State Backs APICHA CHC's Transformation and Growth Volume 19 Number 1 Spring 2014 State Backs APICHA CHC’S Meet Our New Doctor! P h o t Dr. Ian Tang o Transformation and Growth c r Joins APICHA e d i t : VAP Award Funds Major Staff Increase CHC’s Team N a t e R i APICHA Community Health Center has g g some extraordinary news to share. We provided direct s On December 5, 2013, we received services to 3,057 New notification that we were awarded a Yorkers last year, more than APICHA CHC and its patients already Vital Access Program and Safety Net we ever served in a single feel the positive impact of the VAP Provider (VAP) award totaling over six calendar year. funds. As a result of the award we hired million dollars for our Service Access a new physician, Dr. Ian Tang. With Dr. Enhancement Project. Put another Tang’s help, APICHA CHC will meet its way, we will receive nearly $2,000,000 Latinos, immigrants and other people of goal of serving 3,000 patients by 2016. every year for the next three years to color. By providing access to compre - expand our healthcare services and hensive primary health care to some of Coming from a background as an infec - provide health care to more of the low- the city’s most-vulnerable individuals, tious disease specialist, APICHA CHC income community of the Lower East APICHA CHC believes it will help provides Dr. Tang with his first opportu - Side and Chinatown neighborhoods of achieve New York State’s aim of im - nity to practice primary care. He studied Manhattan. proving primary care to reduce emer - medicine in Hong Kong before coming gency room visits. to the United States to do his internal Receiving the VAP award provides fur - medicine residency. From there he com - ther financial stability and acts as an What Is A Vital Access Provider (Vap) pleted a fellowship, specializing in infec - important catalyst to APICHA CHCs to tious disease. After his training, he continue its transformation from an The VAP program was established by practiced HIV-specialty care at St. Clair’s HIV/AIDS coalition for A&PIs to a Feder - the New York State Department of Hospital, St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical ally Qualified Health Center-Look Alike Health’s Medicaid Redesign Team. In Center, Joseph Addabbo Health Center, (FQHC-LA) for all New Yorkers. The 2011, Governor Cuomo issued an Ex - and St. Barnabus Hospital. Dr. Tang funds provided through VAP will go di - ecutive Order aimed at redesigning also conducted lab research at Rocke - rectly to adding staff who will help bring New York’s Medicaid program. At that feller University and taught at New York more of our culturally-competent health time, New York spent twice as much on Medical College. care services to more members of the Medicaid per capita than the national low-income communities of the Lower average. Later, the governor laid out Dr. Tang pointed out that his transition to Eastside and Chinatown, as well as our his reform plan that included New York practicing primary care, while maintain - core target populations residing State’s new healthcare Triple Aim, ing an HIV-specialty care practice, mir - throughout New York City, including which was made up of the following el - rors APICHA CHC’s overall evolution. people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), ements: APICHA’s origin is in advocacy for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgen - • Improving Care-Improving the quality Asians and Pacific Islanders with HIV to der (LGBT) individuals, Asians and Pa - of care by focusing on safety, effec - disaggregate them from the “other” cat - cific Islanders (A&PI), Hispanics or Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 4 2 We Have Pride 5 Take a Pill Once a Day to Prevent 11 Supportive Services Help Keep HIV Infection New Yorkers Healthy 2 Supportive Services Help Keep New Yorkers Healthy 6 APICHA CHC Celebrates 24 Years 11 A list of APICHA CHC's Funders 3 Working for Sustainability 8 State Backs APICHA’s Transforma - 12 Refreshing Our Brand to tion and Growth Reflect Who We’ve Become 4 Building a Better, Stronger APICHA Community Health Ctr. 10 Our Thriving Trans* Health Clinic 2 APICHA Community Health Center NEWS • Spring 2014 We have PRIDE! A publication of APICHA Community Health Center Throughout June, NYC celebrates 400 Broadway LGBT Pride with parades and festivals New York, NY 10013 in all 5 boroughs. This year APICHA Entrance on 70 Walker St. CHC will be providing HIV screening, as Phone: 212.334.7940 well as Gonorrhea and Chlamydia test - Fax: 212.334.7956 ing at Queens Pride Festival and Brook - Healthcare Services: 212.334.6029 lyn Pride. Come and support us from noon to 5pm at both these events. Photo Credit: Wikimedia EDITORIAL BOARD Therese R. Rodriguez Queens pride is celebrating 22 years as 37th Avenue leading to the festival site Chief Executive Officer the largest LGBT event in Queens with at 75th Street. Brooklyn Pride is cele - Aleli Alvarez a theme of openness, togetherness and brating 18 years of pride with a week of Executive Assistant to the CEO acceptance. The parade and festival events culminating with a community Yumiko Fukuda are in Jackson Heights, with the parade festival on Saturday, June 14th. The Chief Operating Officer beginning at noon at 87th Street and festival is located on 5th Avenue from Robert Murayama, MPH 3rd to 9th Street. Chief Medical Officer Gertrudes Pajaron Chief Development Officer We experienced a 17% In addition, our organization will march increase of Lesbian, Gay, David Garcia, EdD, MPH in NYC’s annual Pride March on June Development Specialist Bisexual, and Queer New 29th. If you are interested in marching Phillip Miner Yorkers from all five bor - with us, please contact Stephanie Development Specialist oughs receiving our culturally Chary, Project Connect Coordinator competent services. at 646.744.0990, or by email BOARD OF DIRECTORS [email protected]. Jaime S. Huertas, MPH Chair German B. Compas Secretary David A. Boyd APICHA CHC’s Supportive Services Alexander Chan, Esq. Edward Kai Chiu Help Keep New Yorkers Healthy Donald Credle Stephan Davis For many people with chronic diseases, ensure that HIV-positive patients are Anthony Feliciano staying on top of their care can be over - not lost in the complexities of access - Simona Chung Kwon, DrPH, MPH whelming; for limited-English speakers ing services from multiple sites, ensur - Eliza Eng, MPH or people new to the United States’ ing they continue to receive the array of Louis Madigan health care system, it can feel impossi - services they need to stay healthy. This Barbara McCambry ble. APICHA CHC understands this and program was supported by grant num - Eliza Eng, MPH has many programs in place to help en - ber H89HA0015 from the HIV/AIDS Bu - Michael Yusingbo sure these individuals receive the care reau, United States Department of Therese R. Rodriguez, Ex Officio, CEO they need to stay healthy. Here, we Health and Human Services, Health Re - highlight two programs that involve over - sources and Services Administration. APICHA CHC’S mission is to improve the sight and treatment from primary care This grant is funded through the Ryan health of our community and to increase providers, specialists, mental health White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension access to comprehensive primary care, preventative health services, mental providers, pharmacists, and may include Act of 2009, Minority AIDS Initiative for health and supportive services. We are housing and legal assistance. Part A Grantees, through the New York committed to excellence and providing City Department of Health & Mental Hy - culturally competent services that en - hance the quality of life. Care Coordination. Our team of Care giene to Public Health Solution. Our APICHA CHC advocates for an provides Coordinators and Patient Navigators Care Coordination services are avail - a welcoming environment and under - able to clients who receive primary care served and vulnerable people, especially at APICHA CHC, Astor Medical Group, Asians and Pacific Islanders, the LGBT Last year we experienced and Pride Medical. Community and individuals living with a 75% increase in HIV+ and affected by HIV/AIDS. clients receiving case man - Health Home. In response to mandates Special thanks to Fresh Concentrate LLC agement and care coordina - brought on by the Affordable Care Act in for the newsletter design and Rhina tion support services from 2010, APICHA CHC began to restructure Torres for production coordination and its case management to include Medi - for contributing articles for this issue of 140 to 245 clients. APICHA News. Continued on Page 9 APICHA Community Health Center NEWS • Spring 2014 3 P h o t Working for Sustainability One of our nurse practi - o c tioners, Susanne Ren - r e deiro, hard at work. d volved in making the necessary i t The Journey Towards : changes. N a t Becoming an FQHC e R i g Similarly, members of APICHA CHC’s g Continues s senior staff were invited to meet with APICHA CHC’s senior staff works tire - Dr. Laura Cheever and staff of HRSA’s lessly to ensure APICHA continues to HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). Subsequent provide sustainable, quality health care to the meeting, Dr. Cheever sent a letter services for the communities we serve. to CEO Therese Rodriguez expressing Aside from direct services, so much of great appreciation for the presentations the work involves advocacy. Highlights we gave to her staff. The following is of recent advocacy activities include excerpted from a letter from Dr. Laura meetings with Health Resources and Cheever: Services Administration officials. In January 2014, representatives from “…I want to thank you for coming to APICHA CHC were invited by HRSA to Rockville on January 31, 2014, to share introduce APICHA, our service model, with us the incredible journey that and how we transformed from an APICHA has made in its evolution to HIV/AIDS clinic to a Community Health become a community health center.
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