Practice Transformation (PT)
Partnering Together to Transform the HIV Clinical Workforce
The Southeast AETC’s PT program’s goal are to increase the size and strength of the HIV clinical workforce and to improve patient outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum. We partner with selected clinics across the Southeast to improve patient outcomes by integrating principles of the patient-centered medical home model and implementing HIV care and behavioral health services.
About the Practice Transformation (PT) Program
Practice Transformation (PT) is a process of change in an organization and delivery of primary care to advance quality improvement, patient-centered care, and characteristics of high performing primary care.
The Practice Transformation process involves goal-setting, workforce training, culture change, quality improvement and outcomes measurement, and adapting organizational tools and processes to support advances in models of team-based care.
The Practice Transformation Expansion (PTE) program partners specifically with primary care clinics located in the 220 counties identified by the CDC as being at risk for an HIV and/or HCV outbreak due to injection drug use. These clinics receive additional training on identifying and addressing substance misuse in patients and providing medical care for HIV/HCV coinfection.
SE AETC PT Contacts
Sally Burgess – PT Program Manager
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (615) 343-3104
SE AETC PT Curriculum
The purpose of this training module is to increase the size of and strengthen the skills of the current and novice HIV clinical workforce to better address the needs of patients living with HIV. Other goals include improving health equity and improving access to quality healthcare and services for PWH.
SE AETC PT Resources
On this page, you will find resources and sample protocols to help you take steps along the path toward providing specialty HIV care: from information about HIV stigma and how to reduce stigma in the clinical environment, to where to begin with screening and testing for HIV, to preventing and treating HIV, to information on becoming a patient-centered medical home. We have compiled these sample protocols, links, guides, tools, videos, and more to give you a solid, curated list of reliable and up-to-date information to help increase your knowledge about HIV.
