HIV Care Coordinator Program

The intent of the Care Coordination Program is to facilitate the provision of quality care and services to HIV infected individuals and their families in a timely and consistent manner across a continuum of care. The Kentucky program provides Care Coordinators in six regional sites and community based organizations throughout Kentucky to aid the client in identifying and accessing needed services. These regional sites allow for statewide coverage and better local access to these services. Matthew 25 AIDS Services, Inc. covers the the Green River, Barren River, and Lincoln Trail AD Districts. For Matthew 25’s patients in Indiana, AIDS Resource Group in Evansville provides this service. ARG can be reached at 1-812-421-0059.

Goals of KHCCP:
• To optimize the client’s self-care capabilities by empowering him/her to direct his/her own life decisions.
• To identify the extent of the client’s informal support systems.
• To assist the client in locating and accessing existing services in areas including entitlement benefits (Medicaid and/or Social Security Disability Services), medical care, housing, counseling, transportation, legal and nutrition services.
• To identify and establish a referral system with area health care and social service providers and community-based HIV organizations, and HIV counseling and testing sites.
• To ensure that duplication of services by formal and informal support systems does not occur.
• To provide the client with educational information regarding disease transmission and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, and encourage and reinforce good health habits and secondary prevention methods over the course of case management.
• To identify and document patterns of service needs and advocate for effective policies and resource development.
• To facilitate the initial and on-going education of health care and social service providers to the issues surrounding HIV disease.
• To ensure that program funding is appropriately used to meet the documented needs of HIV+ persons throughout the State in a manner that coordinates funding streams and makes use of existing community resources and services.


Health Insurance
Clients can receive up to $800 toward monthly premiums. Clients must provide a copy of insurance policy and card. The policy must have prescription coverage and be in effect for six months before enrolling in the Kentucky Health Insurance Continuation Program.


FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS:

Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program (KADAP) - This program assists low-income, eligible Kentuckians with the purchase of AIDS-related medications prescribed for FDA-approved indications. Once approved, eligible applicants receive formulary medications through a mail-order pharmacy service provided by the Kentucky Clinic Pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky. NOTE: Effective 2/1/00, a waiting list was established for this program. For complete information, contact 1-866-510-0005 (toll free).

Kentucky Health Insurance Continuation Program (KHICP) - provides payments for the continuation of health insurance benefits for eligible individuals who are at risk of losing their employment-related or private-pay health insurance because of HIV disease.

Kentucky Outpatient Health Care and Support Services Programs - provide assistance for eligible individuals with a wide range of community-based medical and non-medical support services, such as, but not limited to, physical and mental health care, housing, nutrition, and transportation services. From the list of eligible services, priority services are identified during each funding period, based on such factors as client and Care Coordinator input, needs assessment survey results, resource inventories, client satisfaction surveys, and funding limitations.

For Matthew 25’s patients in Indiana, AIDS Resource Group in Evansville provides this service. ARG can be reached at 1-812-421-0059.

Transportation
Matthew 25 provides clients without vehicles rides to and from the clinic for appointments. In some cases, gasoline vouchers are available…care coordinators can help facilitate the paper work if clients are eligible.