EAST LOS ANGELES : AIDS Groups Work to Streamline Care
The Milagros AIDS Project and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Latino AIDS Project will collaborate to serve East Los Angeles.
Milagros will provide space at its South Goodrich Boulevard offices for Latino AIDS Project staff members. Milagros caseworkers will coordinate the services with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said Program Director Henry Alonso.
Milagros has focused on social services while the AIDS Healthcare Foundation concentrates on medical needs for people with HIV.
The collaboration will reduce cost and aggravation to patients, said AIDS Healthcare President Michael Weinstein.
The patients “have to maneuver through two different agencies, two different systems,” Weinstein said. AIDS Healthcare operates four outpatient HIV clinics at medical centers throughout Los Angeles County.
The Milagros AIDS Project was established in 1988 and provides case management, counseling, food and transportation to more than a thousand Eastside residents.
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