mental health AIDS

Summer 2006 Newsletter / Volume 7, Issue 4

Health Services Center of Alabama

Health Services Center, Inc. (HSC), is a coordinated network of HIV primary care clinics serving 14 rural counties in northeast Alabama, a geographic area of over 9,000 square miles. HIV-related medical services were first provided in 1990 on a voluntary basis; today, the network employs more than 30 professionals and offers a full spectrum of health care and social services to over 300 people living with HIV/AIDS.

With funding from CMHS/SAMHSA, HSC has expanded its program of outpatient individual, group, and family counseling to include psychiatric/psychopharmacological evaluation and psychotropic medication management and follow-up care. HSC's main clinic is located in Hobson City (near Anniston, Alabama), and remote clinics are located in Gadsden, Lanett, Alexander City, Sylacauga, and Fort Payne, all served on a rotating schedule. Under a separate SAMHSA funding stream, intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment and aftercare services are also provided at the Gadsden location. Other federal agencies fund HIV-related case management services, as well as adherence, outreach/education, and palliative care initiatives.

The Principal Investigator is Barbara Hanna, MD; the Project Director/Clinical Director is Gayle Wood, MS, LPC. For more information, please call 256/832-0100 or go to http://www.hscal.org/.

– Compiled by the MHHSC Program Coordinating Center

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