Discharge Planning

Over the past decades, care coordination models have emerged as important tools for health care providers working to better serve the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Historically, health care services have been segmented, meaning that a person seeking health care would have to go to one location for their primary care and different sites for

Too many people without financial resources and social supports cycle among hospitals, mental health facilities, foster care or group homes, correctional institutions, shelters, and the streets. These insidious “revolving doors” exacerbate homelessness and call for clinicians and communities to find coordinated solutions that are humane and cost effective. First steps often involve creative adaptation of