Since shelters provide families with three meals a day, it might be easy to assume that families eat nutritious, well-balanced meals and do not experience issues of food insecurity or obesity when they are staying in shelter. However, many families living in shelters struggle with obesity and food insecurity on a daily basis. During focus […]
Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation often exposes an organization’s strengths and weaknesses in leadership, communication, workflow, and staffing. This document outlines the key foundational elements identified by Health Care for the Homeless grantees for successful implementation of electronic health records. Download Research (PDF)
This issue of Healing Hands identifies models and strategies to address and end family homelessness as it reaches levels that have not been reported since the Great Depression. Download Research (PDF)
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Presented by National Health Care for the Homeless Council This case report explores the issues of obesity and food insecurity experienced by families living in shelters, as well as demonstrating the impact of a shelter-based obesity prevention program. Download Research (PDF)
Managing patients who have multiple chronic conditions presents many challenges to providers and requires a high level of integrated care to be successful. This resource from the HCH Clinicians’ Network provides a brief summary of the literature on the impact of multiple chronic conditions on the U.S. and highlights practices from four HCH grantees to
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Developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, this brief outlines the rationale for states to consider designing Medicaid-financed, supportive housing-based care management services to improve care for at-risk beneficiaries while lowering costs associated with avoidable hospitalizations and other crisis services. Download Research (PDF)
There is a growing consensus that the US primary care system must be redesigned in fundamental ways to improve health and the patient experience while lowering costs (Knox et al., 2011). The current system’s skyrocketing costs are unsustainable and present a serious threat to our national fiscal integrity, as well as to individual’s and small
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This Issue Paper describes the ways that Medicaid is being used now and might be used in the future under provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to serve chronically homeless people. Download Research (PDF)
