Referral for Social and Medical Services
These expectations lay out requirements for ensuring a seamless continuum of care by providing necessary linkages to medical, social, and primary health care providers. These standards mandate that projects facilitate access to a broad range of clinical and ancillary services, including screenings for chronic conditions and social needs, through coordinated referrals when those services are not available on-site.
All Referral for Social and Medical Services expectations from the Title X Program Handbook are listed below, along with resources your project can use to meet each one.
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Establishing and Providing Effective Referrals for Clients: A Toolkit for Family Planning Providers
Provide for medical services related to family planning (including consultation by a clinical services provider, examination, prescription and continuing supervision, laboratory examination, contraceptive supplies), in person or via telehealth, and necessary referral to other medical facilities when medically indicated, and provide for the effective usage of contraceptive devices and practices. (42 CFR § 59.5(b)(1))
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Provide for social services related to family planning, including counseling, referral to and from other social and medical service agencies, and any ancillary services which may be necessary to facilitate clinic attendance. (42 CFR § 59.5(b)(2))
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Provide for coordination and use of referrals and linkages with primary healthcare providers, other providers of healthcare services, local health and welfare departments, hospitals, voluntary agencies, and health services projects supported by other federal programs, who are in close physical proximity to the Title X site, when feasible, in order to promote access to services and provide a seamless continuum of care. (42 CFR § 59.5(b)(8))
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Ensure service sites and subrecipients that do not have the capacity to offer primary care services have strong linkages to community providers to facilitate referrals for needs identified during SRH visits. Screening services such as, counseling about healthy weight; screening for and administration of immunizations; and screening for chronic medical conditions (i.e., hypertension), cancer, mental health, alcohol and other substance abuse, sexual violence and intimate partner violence, and human trafficking. (Title X Program Handbook, page 20)
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