Over the past two years, the NIMRC team has been actively working with state and federal partners to advance policies that support medical respite care. Local responses to COVID-19 strengthened the connection between homelessness and poor health, and led many jurisdictions to implement …
NIMRC at Two: Policy Opportunities for Medical Respite Are Rapidly Expanding Read More >>
Two short years ago, on July 15, 2020, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council established the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC). For the next month, we will celebrate our two-year anniversary by highlighting NIMRC’s accomplishments and sharing how we will continue to advance the practice of Medical Respite Care (MRC) in the years to come.
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February 28, 2022 In partnership with the CDC Foundation, the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) has awarded $953,000 and two years of technical assistance to five programs nationwide to integrate behavioral health services and medical care to unhoused people who are medically vulnerable. Over the next two years, programs will receive support in
July 9, 2021 The National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC), a first-of-its-kind institute designed to advance best practices, provide expert services, and promote state-of-the-field knowledge in medical respite care, will mark its one-year anniversary on July 15, 2021. A special initiative of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, NIMRC has made a
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Caitlin Synovec is the Medical Respite Program Manager for NIMRC.
As medical respite/recuperative care has grown, the available research and publications on medical respite have also increased. Previously, the most recent synopses of the evidence supporting medical respite care were completed in 2009 by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and in a systematic review by Kelly Doran et al. in 2013.
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February 15, 2021 The CDC Foundation (CDCF), in partnership with the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC), has awarded $1.6 million in grants to nine existing and emerging medical respite/recuperative programs across the country. Grant support will be spread over a two-year period and will include customized technical assistance for each program. Medical respite/recuperative
Bobby Watts, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, is one of 12 leaders nationwide appointed to the Biden-Harris Administration’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, the White House announced this week. In response to the appointment, Watts said: “I am deeply honored to be appointed to the COVID-19 Health Equity
