Primary audience: HCH-only health center staff The 25% Rule Among the 300 health centers that receive Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) funding, 45 receive only that designation from HRSA, meaning people experiencing homelessness are their sole target population. But people who move in and out of homelessness, and many others may not technically meet […]

Primary audience: Health center staff Definitions The differences in the definitions of homelessness and the varying ways we measure it can complicate health centers’ data-gathering in their service areas. (See the NHCHC’s new infographic on the definitions of homelessness). For example, John Doe Community Health Center (JDCHC) is a health center with Health Care for