Search for: COVID-19 Join Donate FollowFollow Find Best Practices and Research View resources on health care and homelessness. FIND Immediate Help Now Browse homeless service organizations near you. TAKE ACTION TO End Homelessness Lift your voice for health care and housing justice! REQUEST Technical Assistance Request advice or training in homeless health care. Discharge Planning Virtually every hospital struggles to provide safe discharge for patients who have no place to call home. Shelters are often at capacity and are unequipped to help clients recuperate from illnesses or injuries for which they had been hospitalized. Enter medical respite care: acute and post-acute care for persons experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover from a physical illness or injury on the streets but are not ill enough to be in a hospital. Learn more about the crucial and growing role of medical respite care; in the absence of medical respite, consider the following resources on safe discharge. NHCHC Resources Tools to Help Clinicians Achieve Effective Discharge Planning | Healing Hands | October 2008 Care Coordination | Healing Hands | July 2016 See the section in Medical Respite Toolkit on Collaborating with Hospitals Hospitals, Community Care Teams, and Recuperation: Statewide Coordination to Identify, Monitor, and Care for the Homeless | Presentation at the 2015 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference What Every Hospital Discharge Planner Should Know About Homeless Patient Resource Connections | Presentation at the 2013 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference Additional Resources UK Guidance on Discharging Homeless Hospital Patients Critical Time Intervention UNDERSTANDING HOMELESSNESS CLINICAL PRACTICE Homeless Services Best Practices Assessment & Intake Case Management Case Reports Core Competencies Curriculum Discharge Planning Emergency Preparedness Encampments HCH Costing Tool Toolkit Health Center-Specific Resources Interdisciplinary Care Outreach Patient-Centered Medical Home and Meaningful Use Permanent Supportive Housing Prescription Drugs Provider Burnout Quality Improvement Shelter Health Telehealth Workplace Safety Ethical and Cultural Issues Anti-Racism Cultural Competency Medical Ethics Poverty & Health Special Populations Children, Youth & Families Incarceration and Homelessness Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Health Older Adults Rural Populations Veterans Women CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT OUR RESEARCH HCH DIRECTORY Join the Council Make A Donation Get Assistance Contact Us Our Networks Respite Care Providers' NetworkNational Consumer Advisory BoardHCH Clinicians' Network Get Involved Join Our Organization Donate to Our Cause Subscribe to Receive our latest eNewsletter Success! Email Sign Up Now This website is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,625,741 with 20 percent financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov. Copyright © 2020 National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc. 604 Gallatin Ave., Suite 106 | Nashville, TN 37206 | (615) 226-2292 Disclaimers and Payment Policies FollowFollowFollow
