The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is presenting a webinar on December 7th to learn about Body Mass Index (BMI), obesity, and health ailments. This webinar will be hosted by Sandra Arevalo from the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York. The goal of this webinar is to highlight the difficulties associated with […]
It feels appropriate that 2020, a year marked by incredible tragedies and hardship, also marks the 30th anniversary of Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. For decades, we have had insufficient data to demonstrate the scale of the problem and develop holistic solutions. Yet as this year marks an important year of change, we believe it is
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Webinar Slides(PDF) For patients experiencing homelessness, health issues are easily exacerbated by the harsh conditions and stress of living without homes. Access to coordinated, comprehensive health care and community services is essential to providing better health outcomes, but navigating community health systems can be especially difficult for homeless populations. We are pleased to provide this
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Serving Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Systems slides(PPT) Mobilizer Interview with Josh Green(PDF) Trinity Health HCH Example Book(PDF) Trinity RHM Homeless Scorecard FY17(PDF) Policy Brief_Respite Financing(PDF) Homelessness Quality Brief June 2015(PDF) Patients experiencing homelessness have complex needs that are difficult to meet in fragmented systems. Providing coordinated care helps to better manage conditions, reduce
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Advance Directive Example(PDF) PowerPoint Slides(PDF) Part of the “Coffee Chat” series for clinicians, this session will examine issues related to end of life. Clinicians caring for people experiencing homelessness facing end of life sometimes grapple with challenging situations, including clarifying the individual’s wishes and values, finding ways to determine the person’s desires if he is
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Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar will present findings from a review of the literature and field interviews with four health care for the homeless projects regarding their management of complex comorbidities including a highlight of practices from the HCH project at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Masschusetts. Managing complex comorbidities with patients who are homeless can be
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