South MS AIDS Task Force Competitors

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the largest global AIDS organization in the world. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website, www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook, www.facebook.com/aidshealth, and follow us on Twitter, @aidshealthcare. AHF’s mission of providing cutting-edge medicine and advocacy regardless of ability to pay is supported through its various business lines. AHF Pharmacies, Out of the Closet thrift stores, healthcare contracts, and other strategic partnerships generate funding that help AHF provide life-saving services to the thousands of people it cares for. The hallmark of AHF’s success is generating and defining new, innovative ways to provide HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and advocacy. AHF has embarked on a mass testing initiative to identify and treat the 25 million people worldwide who don’t know they are infected. It will take 1 billion tests annually to achieve this goal. AHF is advocating for mass testing models in hopes of eliminating older, more time-consuming methods. Since 1987, AHF has cared for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. As AHF creates and implements its unparalleled programs in new communities in the U.S. and abroad, they expand delivery of healthcare and influence over policy with the sole aim of saving more lives.

GBMC HealthCare, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit corporation that owns and operates Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC), a regional community hospital in Towson, Maryland, two miles north of Baltimore City. GBMC HealthCare is comprised of GBMC, GBMC Health Partners, Greater Baltimore Health Alliance, the GBMC Foundation and Gilchrist. GBMC Health Partners is a collective of more than 300 primary care providers, specialists, advanced practice clinicians, and hundreds of support staff, all working together to care for our community. The GBMC Foundation coordinates fundraising for the healthcare network. Gilchrist is Maryland’s leading nonprofit provider of serious illness and end-of-life care. The Mission of GBMC is to provide medical care and service of the highest quality to each patient and to educate the next generation of clinicians, leading to health, healing and hope for the community. As our national healthcare system evolves, for GBMC to maintain its status as a provider of the highest quality medical care to our community, we must transform our philosophy and organizational structure, and develop a model system for delivering patient-centered care. We define patient-centered care as care that manages the patient's health effectively and efficiently while respecting the perspective and experience of the patient and the patient's family. To every patient, every time, we will provide the care that we would want for our own loved ones!

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC). CHC is one of the country’s most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental and mental health services to the uninsured and underinsured. We are one of the leading health-care providers in the state of Connecticut, providing comprehensive primary care services in medicine, dentistry, and behavioral health. With more than 145,000 active patients, CHC is the health care home that works to keep our patients—and our communities—healthy. We go beyond the traditional health services to bring care wherever our patients and clients are, using innovative service delivery models and state of the art technology. We use the latest treatments and technologies within the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model (PCMH) to care for our growing patient base. We also are engaged in practice transformation work around the country through our Weitzman Institute and affiliates: National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium, the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement, and ConferMED.