KEYSTONE HEALTH CENTER PHYSICIAN CREDENTIALED BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF HIV MEDICINE

David Hoffmann, M.D.

(Chambersburg, PA) - David Hoffmann, M.D., family physician and director of Keystone  Health Center’s family practice in Chambersburg, PA, has been credentialed with the American Academy of HIV Medicine as an HIV Specialist. 

 The American Academy of HIV Medicine is an independent organization of HIV Specialists and others dedicated to promoting excellence in HIV/AIDS care.  Through advocacy and education, the Academy is committed to supporting health care providers in HIV medicine and to ensuring better care for those living with AIDS and HIV disease.  According to Dr. Hoffmann, “Physicians are becoming credentialed so the care they deliver to HIV patients is standardized.” 

 To become credentialed as an HIV Specialist, health care providers must have provided direct, continuous, ongoing care for at least 20 HIV patients over the past two years.  Additionally, they must maintain a current and valid state license as a physician, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner; have completed 30 hours of HIV-related education over the past two years; and successfully complete the Academy’s HIV Medicine Credentialing Examination.  HIV Specialists must be re-credentialed every two years. 

Dr. Hoffmann, who lives in Chambersburg, has been a physician at Keystone’s family practice since 1994. 

 Keystone Health Center receives funding granted through the federal Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act to provide primary care and support services for individuals living with HIV disease who lack health insurance and financial resources for their care. 

 Keystone Health Center offers free, confidential HIV testing to anyone in the community.  An appointment can be made by calling Vanessa McDowell, Keystone’s Outreach Coordinator, at 263-4313 x158 or by visiting Keystone Family Practice, 820 Fifth Avenue, Chambersburg, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm Mondays through Thursdays, 8:00 am through 6 pm Fridays, or 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. Saturdays.

 Keystone Health Center, a public, non-profit organization, provides high-quality family medical, obstetric, gynecological, cardiac, behavioral, and dental health care and, when needed, social services to underserved and vulnerable populations as well as the entire community. At present, Keystone Health Center operates six primary care sites—Keystone Family Practice, Keystone Dental Center, Keystone Women's Care, Keystone Health Center-Path Valley satellite family practice, Franklin County Pediatrics, and the State Migrant Farmworker Administration office—and one specialty practice, the Franklin County Heart Center. Keystone also operates one year-round migrant and seasonal farmworker site in Berks County and one seasonal farmworker site in Adams County. Services are also provided through outreach workers and contracted providers across the Commonwealth.

 For more information regarding Keystone Health Center, please visit the website at www.keystonehealth.com. For more information regarding this news release, please contact Dawn Stinson at (717) 263-2230 x227.