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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Contact: HRSA Press Office
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Outstanding HIV/AIDS Health Care Providers Honored During HRSA Conference

HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration today presented national awards to eight Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act-funded programs and individuals for their efforts providing health care services to Americans living with HIV/AIDS.
 
“Our grantees provide outstanding services every day, from targeting appropriate services to HIV-positive youth, to coordinating primary health care statewide, to reaching out with needed services to low-income residents along the Arizona border with Mexico,” said HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. “The high-quality health care and compassion that these individuals and organizations provide touch thousands of Americans annually.”
 
The awards were presented in Washington, D.C., during the 2004 Ryan White CARE Act Grantee Conference. CARE Act grantees provide HIV/AIDS primary care and support services to more than 530,000 low-income uninsured and underinsured individuals or family members every year.
 
The awards and winners include:

·        Associate Administrator’s Award— Jesse Milan, Jr., JD, vice president and director of health communications for the Constella Group, Durham, N.C., for his exceptional leadership and strong personal commitment in leading the fight against HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and abroad.

·        Associate Administrator’s Clinical Award— Kathleen Anne Clanon, MD, FACP, director of the East Bay AIDS Education and Training Center, Los Angeles, for her compassion, dedication, and innovation in providing care and developing clinical and educational programs that improve the quality of life for people living with HIV infection.

·        Hank Carde Award for Metropolitan Services— Charles Henley, LMSW-ACP, manager of the HIV Services Section in the Harris County, Texas, Public Health and Environmental Services Department, Houston, for his leadership and dedication in involving all stakeholders in the development and implementation of a quality management system for Houston.

·        Dr. Nicholas Rango Award for State Services— James Welch, Ryan White Title II State AIDS coordinator in Dover, Del., for his contributions coordinating a statewide system of HIV/AIDS primary medical care and treatment for low-income individuals and families.

·        Gabe Kruks Award for Early Intervention Services— Arlene Bincsik, MS, RNC, CCRN, ACRN, administrative director of the HIV Program at Christiana Care Health Services in Wilmington, Del., for unsurpassed leadership in planning, implementing, and evaluating the Title III program in Wilmington and various affiliated HIV satellite sites throughout the state.

·        Rebecca Denison Award for Family Care Services— Felicia Rodriguez, program director of the Title IV Youth Initiative, Adolescent Medicine at the CORE Center located in the Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Ill., for her leadership in planning and implementing a culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate health and mental health program that targets HIV positive youth.

·        Russell E. Brady Award for Innovative Services Delivery— El Rio Santa Cruz Neighborhood Health Center, Special Immunology Associates, Tucson, Ariz., for excellence in developing, implementing, and evaluating models that address HIV issues specific to Hispanic and migrant populations along the US/Mexico Border.

·        AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Services Award— Lucy Bradley-Springer, PhD, RN, ACRN, Director of the Mountain Plains AIDS Education and Training Center and associate professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, for her leadership and strong commitment to the work of the AETCs, evaluation of training efforts, and her generosity and willingness to lend her expertise and skills to others.
 
HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau, which administers the Ryan White CARE Act, sponsors the conference to improve systems of care for people living with HIV/AIDS, increase grantees' understanding of CARE Act requirements, enable grantees to share models of care, and encourage collaboration and networking among grantees.
 
Since fiscal year 2001, the Bush administration has spent more than $7.7 billion in CARE Act funding to help people with HIV/AIDS access life-sustaining care and services each year. President Bush has requested nearly $2.1 billion in fiscal year 2005 for the CARE Act, an increase of more than $270 million since 2001.
 

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