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Health care at the crossroads: Strategies for creating and sustaining community-wide emergency preparedness systems

Prepared by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the purpose of this report is to frame the issues that must be addressed in developing community-wide preparedness and to delineate federal and state responsibilities for eliminating barriers and for facilitating and sustaining—through leadership, funding and other resource deployment—community-based emergency preparedness across the United States. […]

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Organizing Health Services for Homeless People: A Practical Guide

Author: McMurray-Avila M – See Part IV, Service Delivery Strategies, Case Management Services Part IV discusses service delivery strategies based on the experience of existing HCH projects. This section describes specific elements necessary for provision of services in the following areas: medical care, substance abuse services, mental health services, case management, outreach, dental care, respite

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Healing Hands: Coping with Stress, Creating & Maintaining Hope

In this issue of Healing Hands, we examine the spiritual and psycho- logical roots of their ability to cope with stress while creating and maintaining hope for clients, colleagues and themselves. In the midst of year-end pressures, we conducted interviews with ten HCH clinicians, practicing in different regions of the United States, and representing a

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Systems Alliance and Support (SAS): A Program of Intensive Case Management for Chronic Public Inebriates: Seattle

Authors: Cox GB, Meijer L, Carr DI, and Freng SA. Abstract: Systems Alliance and Support (SAS) is a long-term, intensive case management intervention suitable for severely disabled chronic alcoholics. These clients have long histories of alcohol abuse and of unsuccessful treatment for alcoholism, and for our subjects, long histories of homelessness, with a paucity of

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