Trauma Stewardship
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Clinical Practice
LL – Service Delivery and Reimbursement Models for Utilizing Nurse-Led Care Across HCH Settings
Nurse-led care models are often underutilized and can have a significant impact on individual patients’ lives and on community and population health outcomes. Co-sponsored with the National Nurse Led Care Consortium (NNCC), this session will discuss various models for building and operating nurse-led care teams across a variety of settings. Speakers will provide case examples
LL – Next Steps in Addressing Encampment Sweeps
Encampment sweeps have become an all-too-common response to unsheltered homelessness in many communities. Unfortunately, these forcible removals are rarely accompanied by permanent housing and only serve to destabilize people, disconnect them from housing and services, and do nothing to solve homelessness. This Learning Lab will feature updates on the status of encampment sweeps (and other
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LL – Evaluations in Health Care for the Homeless Programs
Encampment sweeps have become an all-too-common response to unsheltered homelessness in many communities. Unfortunately, these forcible removals are rarely accompanied by permanent housing and only serve to destabilize people, disconnect them from housing and services, and do nothing to solve homelessness. This Learning Lab will feature updates on the status of encampment sweeps (and other
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Housing is Health Care: Leveraging Medicaid Waivers to Strengthen Housing First Programs
This workshop — at the intersection of policy and practice — will explore the regulatory background enabling Medicaid “supportive housing” waivers, emerging data on housing and health, and the policies, politics, and partnerships that made possible a state’s six-year state pilot (which will be expanded statewide in FY2025). Outcomes from a five-year state study will
Homelessness Is Not a Binary: The Continuum of Care When Homelessness is a Chronic Comorbidity
Clinicians rarely ask patients about their health history related to recovering from homelessness. Through case studies, lived experience, oncological and epigenetic research, and group discussions, this session will explore the importance of evaluating chronic health issues with homelessness as a comorbidity even after patients have regained housing stability and recovered from homelessness. The session will
Closing the disparity gap: The importance of clinical, patient, and analytics team collaboration
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) works diligently to strengthen clinical equity in homeless health care as an integral part of its care model. For several years, the analytics team has performed analyses on clinical quality data stratified by patient demographics. Members of the clinical, analytics, quality, and consumer advisory board teams review
LL – Environmental Emergencies: We Can Help, The Lived Experience Perspective
While an environmental emergency can be traumatic for entire communities, people experiencing homelessness are particularly devastated and predominantly ignored by emergency response efforts. We know, however, that people experiencing homelessness (and people who formerly experienced homelessness) are extremely resilient and often support one another to find solutions that can inspire and influence the greater community
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