Southwest Florida Regional HIV/AIDS Council (RHAC)

Date: March 18th, 2015

Time: 9:30AM – 12:00 PM

Place:Charlotte County Health Department

Attendees:Attached list

  1. S. McIntosh started with introductions around the room, and called the meeting to order.
  2. The Consent Agenda motion for approval R. Bobo, and seconded by M. Cuffage.
  1. Partnership 8 Epidemiology Report-Presented by Valentino Clarke- Presented in detail through the PowerPoint presentation. The presentation can be found at:
  1. Linkage to Care-Presented by Valentino Clarke: V. Clarke shared the list of local contact, and presented the Linkage to care process map and the group decided that the Continuum of Care Committee should look at creating a process map that works for our local area.
  1. Financial- M. Waite reported for Ryan White, through March 12th, year to date $1,781,000 and we spent $1,740,000, last year we did $1,766,000.We put in for another budget revision we are waiting for it to be approved.

M. Waite reported for HOPWA, from July 1st through the end of February, the year to date budget is $646,000, we so far have spent $254,000, last year $303,000. R. bobo asked where we are with the TBRA program. V. Clarke stated that we are still waiting on the finalization on the manual. P. Brown stated that we have a stronger case because Lee Human Services is now doing TBRA for non-HOPWA clients so they are already doing TBRA. P. Brown stated that maybe we should draft an email from P. Dobbins stating that Lee Human Services received their TBRA and wanting to know the status of our proposal. R. Bobo put in a motion for a soft push on finding out the status on TRBA, and seconded by A. Gallagher.

M. Waite reported for AICP, from July 1st through February 28th we spent $161,000 for 59 people. Last year it was $365,000 for 93 people.

  1. RW Services Prioritization-J. Sexton presented the results of the RW Service Prioritization that was conducted at the last RHAC meeting. The RW Services Prioritization motion for approval R. Bobo, and seconded by J.Acevedo.
  1. Prevention- J. Acevedo stated that prevention has not yet met. There is a meeting after RHAC to look at the social media grant. The prevention committee has been discussing billing for testing prevention services, this is something that Marlene has eluted too when she was here last year. The prevention committee decided to ask our HAPC to facilitate bringing this system to our area, so an expert can show us how to bill for services. There are small agencies in Area 8 that currently do not have the capacity to bill for testing. This is an opportunity to give them that chance and they can look at their infrastructure and decide weather they have the capacity to bill. V. Clarke has called upon AETC to come in and do a technical assistance training billing for services; no date has been decided yet. P. Brown stated that health HIV has done many billing symposiums around the state and has the curriculum put together. Maybe they have something set already in our area.
  1. 2015-2016Meeting Dates motion for approval R. Bobo, and seconded by M. Cuffage
  1. Public Comment- M. Burns stated that Desoto County’s Part C review went very well.

S. Delacruz stated that there is a Woman’s Conference on Friday March 20th at the Dr. Carrie Robertson Center in Fort Myers.

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