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HEPATITIS
Since March 5, 2020, WVHAMP has...
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Individuals Trained
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Consults Received (from 54 providers)
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Patients Cured (for a 98.5% cure rate)
These numbers demonstrate that with guidance and support, PCPs who have never previously treated HCV can achieve the same rate of cure as a specialist (95-99%).
WV HAMP Course Goals
- Recruit primary and addiction care providers practicing in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Addiction Care Clinics, and rural community clinics in high-risk communities throughout West Virginia.
- Establish a primary and addiction care workforce trained by hepatitis C experts to screen, diagnose, treat, and follow up with the goal of curing persons with chronic hepatitis C infection throughout West Virginia, including high-risk, rural, and low-resource settings.
- Remove barriers to care for individuals diagnosed with hepatitis C.
- Increase the number of West Virginians living with hepatitis C who are successfully linked to care and cured.
WV HAMP Course Objectives
- Understand strategies to identify persons with chronic hepatitis C infection.
- Understand hepatitis C epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, management, treatment, cure and prevention.
- Understand the burden of hepatitis C infection in high risk groups in West Virginia and throughout the Appalachian Region.
- Understand staging of liver disease and hepatitis C counseling and transmission risks.
- Understand recent and evolving changes to West Virginia’s Medicaid Program and how these changes impact viral hepatitis treatment in West Virginia.
- Understand how the increase in hepatitis C infection is related to the growing opioid epidemic in West Virginia and the U.S.
- Have knowledge of injection drug use and describe the ways to enhance access to hepatitis C screening and treatment services for substance users.
- Understand the infrastructure necessary to support hepatitis care, treatment and cure in primary and addiction care settings.
- Identify screening for hepatitis C during pregnancy and the potential for perinatal transmission.
- Understand procedures for screening, testing, treatment and cure of babies born to mothers with hepatitis C infection.
How It Works
WVHAMP is a free telementoring partnership designed for primary and addiction care providers to link with disease experts for hepatitis C training. WVHAMP is designed to build a mentorship platform that is accessible to primary and addiction care providers caring for high-risk individuals throughout West Virginia, so that individuals with chronic hepatitis C can be cared for and cured in their own community.
What is Expected
- Participants will make a commitment to participate in WVHAMP trainings for at least 12 months. This training prepares providers to evaluate patients and submit consultations.
- Interested providers apply to attend the WVHAMP day-long online Cycle 1 training.
- After Cycle 1 training, providers are invited to participate in the evening educational webinars every month. Providers will present challenges and patient cases to their peers and WVHAMP Mentorship Team for feedback and guidance.
- Complete the half-day WVHAMP Cycle 2 training. That covers additional relevant topics.
- Submit a WVHAMP Consultation Form for each patient that has been fully evaluated through the secure/online WVHAMP data system.
- Mentors review the Consultation Form, advise on the proposed treatment regimen and approve the treatment plan.
- Mentors provide backup for complex cases as needed.
- Participants will be provided a one-year membership to the West Virginia Rural Health Association.
- Participants will have access to WVHAMP training materials/tool kit on the West Virginia Rural Health Association website via a designated link.
- WVHAMP planners have applied for Continuing Education Credits for participation.
WV HAMP training event dates
Each Cohort will have a full-day (WVHAMP 1) session followed by a half-day (WVHAMP 2) session approximately 6 months later. Monthly evening webinars will occur every 2 months on the 2nd or 3rd Tuesday.
- 2022 West Virginia Rural Health Association