{"id":2370,"date":"2017-04-12T20:18:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T20:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/disease-prevention\/?page_id=2370"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:24:13","slug":"data-to-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/disease-prevention\/std\/data-to-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Data to Care Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What<strong> is Data to Care?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0A joint initiative with HIV Surveillance, Prevention, Care Services and STD Prevention and Surveillance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4339 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DataToCare-e1491593771785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DataToCare-e1491593771785.png 1430w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DataToCare-e1491593771785-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DataToCare-e1491593771785-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DataToCare-e1491593771785-1024x566.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Goals<\/strong>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li>To improve health outcomes for persons living with HIV by helping clients to:\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Be in care (engaged)<\/li>\n<li>Stay in continuous HIV care (retention)<\/li>\n<li>Have a viral load less than 200 copies\/mL (viral suppression)<\/li>\n<li>Prevent new HIV infection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Data to Care has expanded statewide to over 40 local health departments, medical sites, and community-based organizations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How Does Data to Care Work?<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Virginia HIV surveillance data is used to create out-of-care lists<\/li>\n<li>Out-of-care lists are\u00a0distributed<\/li>\n<li>Agencies follow up with out-of-care clients to find out if clients are truly out-of-care<\/li>\n<li>Agencies enter results into REDCap<\/li>\n<li>The results are entered back into the HIV surveillance system to update the data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 270px;\"><em><strong>\u00a0The Data to Care Process<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process.png 1276w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/DtC-Process-272x182.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>To be on an Out-of-Care list, clients must be:<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>HIV-positive and reported to Virginia&#8217;s HIV Surveillance data system<\/li>\n<li>18 years of age or older<\/li>\n<li>Living with a last known address in Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Meet the out-of-care definition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u00a0Current Out-of-Care Definition<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Clients who have not had a care marker within one year or more from the date the out-of-care list was created, but had a care marker in the preceding calendar year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6614 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/CareMarkers5-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/CareMarkers5-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/CareMarkers5-768x159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/CareMarkers5.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Overall Results<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>As of August 2018, results for 602 Data to Care clients have been submitted<\/li>\n<li>Thirty-five percent of these were found to be &#8220;In Care&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Of the 8% of clients found &#8220;Not in Care&#8221;, 68% reengaged into HIV care through Data to Care efforts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/image-3-e1601905838241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"289\" \/><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px; text-align: left;\"><i>Data reported to the Virginia Department of Health as of September 2018<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0What are the Results Being Used For?<em><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To identify out-of-care clients who need to be linked or reengaged back into HIV care<\/li>\n<li>Identify data reporting issues<\/li>\n<li>To update Virginia\u2019s HIV Surveillance data<\/li>\n<li>Help improve future out-of-care lists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Resources:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/Data-to-Care-Protocol_06-29-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data to Care Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/FINAL-DtC-Collection-Tool_3117.pdf\">Data to Care Data Collection Form<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/04\/Coordination-of-Care-and-Services-Agreement_052016.pdf\">Coordination of Care and Services Agreement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/04\/Data-to-Care-FAQs.pdf\" rel=\"\">Data to Care FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional Information:<\/h2>\n<p>For any additional information or if your agency is interested in participating in Data to Care, please <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/disease-prevention\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Data to Care? \u00a0A joint initiative with HIV Surveillance, Prevention, Care Services and STD Prevention and Surveillance Goals To improve health outcomes for persons living with HIV by helping clients to: Be in care (engaged) Stay in continuous HIV care (retention) Have a viral load less than 200 copies\/mL (viral suppression) Prevent new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"parent":1040,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Data to Care Initiative - Disease Prevention<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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