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The new adult day health outreach offered by AIDS Care in Rochester is one of 15 such programs licensed by the state, but the first one operating outside of metropolitan New York City. The program accepts up to 60 AIDS Care clients per day. Individuals must commit to attending three days a week, with a minimum of three hours per session; they must receive at least three hours of health care over a weeklong period. Enrollees must be Medicaid-eligible or pay privately.
“Our patients have been asking for something like this,” said Michael Beatty, AIDS Care’s vice president for programs and services. “We saw the need among our longtime patients to create a program not only to meet social needs but the additional benefit of improving health.”
An estimated 2,500 people in the Finger Lakes region are living with HIV/AIDS, according to agency estimates. An adult day health program helps keep these patients “as well as possible, engaged in their own care, and prevents a lot of potentially unnecessary hospitalizations,” said Lynn Varricchio, a program manager at Finger Lakes Health System Agency, which reviewed AIDS Care’s application and recommended the program. Beatty said plans are underway to expand enrollment.
To learn more about AIDS Care or the new program, telephone 585-545-7200 and ask for the on-call case manager.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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