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Callen-Lorde Offers Keith Haring Fellowship that Will Train Nurse Practitioners About LGBT Health

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A pioneering fellowship program—the first of its kind in the nation—will train nurse practitioners to meet the complex needs of the LGBT community. It’s the result of a partnership between Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and the Keith Haring Foundation, reports POZ magazine.

According to POZ: The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health will have a home at Callen-Lorde’s brand-new site in downtown Brooklyn—at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension—which is slated to open in 2020. It will mark Callen-Lorde’s fourth clinical site and nearly double its capacity.

According to a Callen-Lorde press release, the program launches with a $2.5 million donation by the Keith Haring Foundation. The gift will establish the Keith Haring LGBTQ+ Health Equity Endowment to fund the fellowship.

This full-time, 12 month program consists of precepted and independent sessions as well as specialty rotations and didactic portions. Haring Fellows will have benefits and earn a modified salary. The fellowship is designed to give the academically prepared practitioner an opportunity to spend more time under the guidance of a preceptor.

The Keith Haring Nurse Practitioner Postgraduate Fellowship in LGBTQ+ Health is funded, in part, through the The Keith Haring LGBTQ+ Health Equity Endowment, which was established at Callen-Lorde by the Keith Haring Foundation in 2019.

Program goals:

• Increase the number of LGBTQ+ sensitive primary care providers and increase access to LGBTQ+ care that is comprehensive, team-based, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, high quality, and safe.

• Increase primary care workforce retention through improving confidence, capability and job satisfaction.

• Develop leadership qualities to improve clinic and patient outcomes through quality improvement, population health and/or research.

• Advance skills for creating organizational change to transform healthcare systems to be LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming.

By the end of the program, Haring Fellows will:

• Provide comprehensive, team-based, patient-centered, high-quality and safe primary and LGBTQ+ care.

• Demonstrate confidence that aligns with their competence.

• Develop a quality improvement plan, propose an intervention to improve population health, and/or engage in a research project at Callen-Lorde.

• Perform an evaluation and hold a sensitivity training at an outside organization regarding LGBTQ+ inclusivity.

• See 15-16 patients a day.

Callen-Lorde is the global leader in LGBTQ healthcare. Since the days of Stonewall, we have been transforming lives in LGBTQ communities through excellent comprehensive care, provided free of judgment and regardless of ability to pay. In addition, we are continuously pioneering research, advocacy and education to drive positive change around the world, because we believe healthcare is a human right.

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