For years, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has partnered with Vida/SIDA — a project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center — to ensure the health and well-being of the Latino/Latina community by offering free HIV testing, counseling and other services crucial to prevent the transmission of HIV. Under their umbrella falls a program called “El Rescate,” a new initiative...
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The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) released in late November a concept paper describing how Medicaid Health Homes might be implemented in Illinois. Health Homes are authorized under the Affordable Care Act to provide care coordination to people with two or more chronic diseases, or one chronic disease and increased vulnerability for another one.
The federal...
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September 27, 2013 Marty Hansen, (312) 334-0947
AFC PUBLISHES REPORT ON HOUSING AND HEALTH
More than 40 Agencies Help Create a New Strategic...
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Chicago’s single most vulnerable woman — HIV-positive, alcoholic mother of seven, homeless for many years — now has a home.
This holiday season, she’s one of Chicago’s 212 most vulnerable homeless people who are sleeping inside, in their own beds, instead of out in the cold. That heartwarming fact is a result of the 100,000 Homes Campaign here in Chicago. One year...
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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) submitted on July 1, 2011 comments to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) on the vital role HIV case management and housing can play in a Medicaid coordinated care environment. HFS requested the stakeholder input as the agency works to meet the goal of having half of all enrollees in some form of coordinated care by...
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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) submitted on July 1, 2011 comments to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) on the vital role HIV case management and housing can play in a Medicaid coordinated care environment. HFS requested the stakeholder input as the agency works to meet the goal of having half of all enrollees in some form of coordinated care by...
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AFC’s Healthcare Hero-in-Chief, Melanie Paul
On August 4th, AFC’s very own Supportive Housing Program Coordinator Melanie Paul shared the podium with Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Danny Davis (D-Chicago), and others to demand real health care reform at a major Chicago rally. Melanie told her story to let...
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