Standards and Best Practices Committee

THE SBP COMMITTEE IS CHARGED WITH THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with DHSP to support their clinical quality management (CQM) plan.  
• Identifying, reviewing, developing, disseminating, and evaluating service standards for HIV prevention and care services.  
• Reducing the transmission of HIV improving health outcomes and optimizing quality of life and self-sufficiency for all people living with HIV and their caregivers and families through the adoption and implementation of “best practices”. 
• Recommending service system and delivery improvements to DHSP to ensure that the needs of people at risk for or living with HIV are adequately met. 
• Collaborating with the PP&A Committee to develop and define directives for implementation of services and service models.
• Evaluating and designing systems to ensure that other service systems are sufficiently accessed. 
• Identifying and recommending solutions for service gaps. 
• Ensuring that the basic level of HIV prevention and care services throughout Los Angeles County is consistent in both comprehensiveness and quality through the development, implementation, and use of outcome measures.  
• Reviewing aggregate service utilization, delivery, and/or quality management information from DHSP, as appropriate. 
• Evaluating and assessing service effectiveness of HIV prevention and care service delivery in Los Angeles County, with particular attention to, among other factors, outcome evaluation, cost effectiveness, capacity, and best practices. 
• Conducting an annual assessment of the effectiveness of the administrative mechanism (AEAM), and overseeing implementation of the resulting, adopted recommendations. 
• Verifying system compliance with standards by reviewing contract and Request for Proposal (RFP) templates. 
• Carrying out other duties and responsibilities, as assigned by the Commission or the Board of Supervisors.