ALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION

Hiv care and services with over two decades of experience providing comprehensive hiv care, altamed serves more than 1,500 patients each year through four dedicated hiv primary care clinics in los angeles and orange counties. It has established itself as a longstanding provider supported by multi-year federal, state, and local funding. In addition to outpatient medical care, altamed offers a full range of hiv services. These include benefits specialty services that help patients navigate public programs and health coverage, as well as oral health services tailored to the specific needs of people living with hiv. Altamed also provides transportation assistance to reduce barriers to accessing care, along with comprehensive medical and non-medical case management to ensure ongoing support and effective care coordination. Early intervention services are available to engage newly diagnosed individuals in timely, appropriate care. Additionally, altamed offers robust hiv prevention services, including prep/pep navigation, routine hiv/sti testing, and comprehensive link-to-care services to facilitate a seamless transition from diagnosis to sustained medical management.

Youth services - altamed provides an array of youth services to over 1,200 at-risk teens and young adults in medically-underserved communities each year. Services include: pregnancy and std prevention programs, family planning, health education and information workshops, linkages to clinical services, case management for pregnant/parenting teens, parenting education, support for parenting teens to help them stay in school and life-skills development. Altamed also provides intensive tutoring for high school students, mentorship, guidance into college and technical schools, and workforce development with career pipelines in the medical field.the altamed institute for health equity (aihe). Through innovation and community engagement, the work of the institute is to address a wide array of health inequities that disproportionately affect racial and ethnic groups, including addressing the multiple social determinants of health which lead to disparities in clinical outcomes. Altamed's patient population is overwhelmingly from racial/ethnic minorities including individuals with limited english proficiency that suffer disproportionately from health disparities. Through translational research, grants, and strategic partnerships, the institute is developing evidence-based strategies to improve patient care. The institute represents the establishment of critical resources to advise altamed health services on systematically addressing key issues in health equity by developing and advancing consensus strategies that are effective, sustainable and that can be implemented locally.altamed offers specialty care services to remove the barriers to care many were experiencing when trying to access these much needed services. Expansion of the workforce pipelines continue to educate and train community members in ma, lvn, and nurse career pathways. Altamed has grown the newly formed civic engagement department to address social determinants of health and train community members on how to advocate at the grassroots level for increased and particular health access and reforms, and encourage community to get involved with local issues and vote.