Congratulations to the 26 medical respite care programs across nine states that completed NIMRC Certification this summer.
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The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is excited to open our call for abstracts for the 2027 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium in Baltimore at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, May 10-13. Our conference — the largest of its kind in the country — brings together clinicians, researchers, policymakers, advocates, and
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Immigrant communities across the country are experiencing a wave of policy attacks that threaten access to health care and other critical supports. Over the past year and a half, increased immigration enforcement, elimination of protections at sensitive locations, and heightened fear have made it more difficult for people to access care, enroll in coverage, and
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Tennessee’s recent felony charges against Joseph Williams in Nashville for camping on public property mirror national efforts to prosecute homelessness as a serious crime rather than addressing it as a failure of public housing policy. Since the 2024 Supreme Court decision allowed these laws—and the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order in 2025 encouraging increasingly
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Over a dozen states use Medicaid 1115 waivers to fund medical respite care. Recently, CMS issued new guidance to states changing how “budget neutrality” in Medicaid 1115 waivers will be evaluated at the federal level. Our new fact sheet outlines the changes that states must adopt and the action steps that the Medical Respite Care
Webinar Series Description Because of the variability in medical respite programs across the country, there have been minimal space guidelines to support organizations that wish to develop or expand their medical respite care facilities. CannonDesign partnered with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council to establish a national evidence-based guideline to inform the planning
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All Member Meetings provide an opportunity to join together with other medical respite program providers and administrators to discuss key issues affecting medical respite care. We will provide updates on NIMRC, resource, and policy issues. This will be followed by a short presentation and large group discussion on current issues affecting the field, where attendees have the opportunity to connect
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The Standards for Medical Respite Care Programs (the Standards) serve as a framework to help medical respite care programs operate safely, effectively, and seamlessly with local health care systems, and to promote program development and growth. The Standards create a foundation for program operations that can be applied to any Model of Medical Respite Care,
