Comprehensive Health Program - Downtown
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The Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown provides compassionate primary care and infectious disease treatment and management. We also offer preventive care to keep you and your loved ones healthy. This includes primary care, mental health care, and supportive services. In addition, our patients may have access to clinical trials of the newest and most advanced treatments. We are part of the Institute for Advanced Medicine.
Our Services
We offer a wide range of services for adults, including:
- Primary care
- Social work/case management
- Supportive services, including care coordination
- Mental health services, including psychiatric consultation and treatment, individual psychotherapy, trauma-informed services, and support groups
- Specialty care, including psychiatry, psychology, nutrition, and acupuncture
- Addiction Treatment Program
- Pharmacy services, including free home delivery
- Eligibility assistance
- HIV prevention and care, including long acting injectables
- Sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment
- Anal cancer prevention
- High resolution anoscopy
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and TelePrEP
- Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)
- Immediate Initiation of HIV antiretroviral therapy
- Hepatitis C screening and treatment
- Access to clinical trials and research
Populations of Focus
The Institute for Advanced Medicine started in 1989 as a program for the HIV/AIDS community. We now offer primary and specialty care to all communities, regardless of status. We accept most major commercial insurance plans, as well as Medicaid and Medicare. If you do not have health coverage, we may be able to help you get insurance. In addition, we offer a variety of special programs for specific populations, including:
- Women
- Sexually active young adults
- People leaving jail or prison
- Older adults
- Latinx populations
- LGBTQ+
- Individuals with a history of mental health or substance use issues
Uninsured and Underinsured
Our PlaySure Network 2.0 Program helps people with little or no health insurance. Our free offerings include:
- Outreach
- Community-based HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and education
- Linkage to free PrEP/PEP/STI testing and treatment, immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy medical visits, and supportive services
- Entitlements assistance and benefits counseling
- Short-term mental health counseling sessions
- Vaccinations
- Appointment reminders
- Reassessments
New York City Residents at High Risk for HIV or Taking PEP
For people in the New York City eligible metropolitan area, there’s the NYC PEP Hotline (844-373-7692), which offers:
- HIV PEP assessment
- Free starter packs
- Linkages to PEP medical appointments
- Assistance with medication assistance programs
New Yorkers at High Risk for HIV or Taking PEP Outside the NYC Metro Area
The free NYS PEP Hotline (844-737-4669) is available 24/7 to people who live in New York State but outside the New York City area. The hotline provides:
- HIV PEP assessment
- Help with medication assistance programs and prescription access
- Linkages to PEP medical appointments
People Living With HIV
The Care Coordination Program provides intensive medical case management services. It is aimed at people with an unsuppressed viral load and other medical or nonmedical issues that affect their health. Our goal is to improve HIV viral load and immunological health. We also strive to reduce HIV-related mortality. Services include:
- Health education
- Directly observed therapy
- Accompaniment to medical and benefits appointments
- Appointment and medication adherence reminders
- Help with wraparound and social services
People Living With HIV Who Need Help With Medication
Our Accelerating Implementation of Multilevel-Strategies to Advance Long-Acting Injectables for Underserved Populations Program helps people with sustained load suppression. It is also open to those who are newly diagnosed or new to HIV treatment. Services include:
- Benefits navigation
- Clinical care
- Psychosocial support
- Assistance with logistics and scheduling
People Who Are Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming, or Gender Nonbinary
The Voices in Partnership Program is open to people in the New York metro area who are transgender, gender-nonconforming, or gender nonbinary. It offers:
- Primary and specialty care
- Gender-affirming care
- Mental health
- Social work
- Pharmacy with home delivery
- Medical case management
- Supportive services
- HIV biomedical prevention
- Immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy
- Substance use screening
- Harm reduction
- Adherence support
- Accompaniment
- Support groups
- Patient education
- Certified application counselors to access immediate Medicaid and other insurance coverage
- Telehealth visits
- After-hours coverage is available
- Access to clinical trials and research studies
Meet Our Team
The Comprehensive Health Program-Downtown has a variety of highly qualified practitioners.
Executive Director
Faculty
Antonio Urbina, MD (Medical Director)
Srinivasa (Nithin) Gopalsamy, MD
Clinical Staff–Providers
Tarashon Broomes-Pennicott, DNP, AGNP-C
Daitasha Miller, DNP
Ankit Singh, PA
Specialists
Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, FACE – Endocrinology (Executive Director, Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery)
Daniel Jeffrey Slack, MD – Endocrinology
Joan Villacasio, NP - Endocrinology
Jiby Mepurathu Yohannan, MD– Endocrinology
Therapists/Mental Health Providers
Max Lichtenstein, MD,Director of Psychiatry
Ralph Fader, MD - Pediatrics
Leslie Capulong, MD (Fellow)
Social Workers
Taemin Ahn, LMSW
Val Hamra, LMSW
Zoey Peresman, LCSW
Ash Rearick, LCSW