Our Services

The mission of the Lenox Hill Hospital Retroviral Disease Center (RDC) is to provide patients with a full range of high quality, patient-focused HIV primary care and specialty services. The RDC aims to improve the health of the communities it serves through prevention, early diagnosis, and coordinated treatment of HIV in a multidisciplinary and comprehensive care environment consistent with Lenox Hill Hospital’s commitment to excellence.

Our services include:

• Comprehensive HIV primary care services by providers licensed and credentialed as HIV specialists
• Intensive social work services
• Case management
• HIV screening and testing, including post exposure prophylaxis for appropriate individuals
• Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) screening, diagnosis, and management
• Comprehensive nutrition services
• Mental health and psychosocial services
• Substance abuse interventions
• Acute inpatient care
• Full suite of specialist referrals, many of which provide care directly on site at the RDC

In addition, we are dedicated to delivering care in a supportive, respectful, and compassionate manner to all persons. We recognize and address the medical and psychosocial needs of patients and their families without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, national origin, source of payment, and/or disability. We strive to continuously improve the quality of care, educate all learners, conduct research, advance our knowledge, and to contribute to the advancement of HIV care and management with the ultimate aim of a future cure.