The STAR-Downstate Health Center’s Family-Focused Health Care Program (FFHCP) offers comprehensive, patient-centered health services to provide co-located HIV primary care, OB/GYN services, medical case management, health education/risk reduction, and psychosocial and social support services. Community partners provide doula services, housing, food, legal assistance, education/job assistance and other support services.
Eligible clients are persons living with HIV (PLWH) who meet Ryan White eligibility criteria and are newly diagnosed, out-of-care or not regularly engaged in care, or not virally suppressed.
Priority populations for FFHCP services are:
Program services are designed to improve health outcomes by reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission, and proactively addressing intersectional factors impacting racial and ethnic disparities using a health equity framework. Services are tailored to meet the needs of PLWH with dependent children to improve timely entry, access and retention in care. Services include:
For further information, please contact Migdalia Vientos at (718) 270-7275 or migdalia.vientos@downstate.edu
