Medical respite care is an essential service for people experiencing homelessness. While the number of medical respite programs has increased drastically over the last 5 years, there are still not enough beds to meet the growing needs of our vulnerable neighbors without homes. This PCI will focus on planning, developing, and piloting a medical respite […]
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Collaborative partnerships are crucial to the delivery of high quality, equitable community- based care. While these partnerships are essential, it can be difficult for funders, large health systems, and smaller nonprofits/social service organizations to navigate, understand one another, and to build mutual partnerships that create a lasting impact. As we continue to work to de-silo
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Speakers: Meghan Miller: Director of Health Education, The Floating Hospital; Karen Hudson: Program Leader, Homeless Health Initiative, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Erica Pugh: Temple University Location Session Materials: Download PowerPoint Presentation “Creation and evaluation of an intensive health education camp intervention for adolescents living in temporary housing” Download PowerPoint Presentation “Addressing Social, Healthcare and Occupational Justice
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Speakers: Stephen Hwang: St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Br. James Hall: Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Refuge Session Materials: Download the PowerPoint Presentation Download the Presentation Document
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Our 2023 Conference embraces the theme “Toward Justice: Leading with Lived Experience.” Growing inequities and criminalization of homelessness are diminishing our society and threatening the lives of people experiencing homelessness. In 2023, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Consumer Advisory Board and the people with lived expertise of homelessness who have been
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Increasing access to care is a cornerstone to community health centers and safety net clinics. Often, access to care includes making policy changes that drive diverse care models. A recent example of this includes the movement to allow Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) to work at the top of their licensure to ensure a larger pool
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Speakers: Emma Tasini: Healthcare in Action; Marjorie Momplaisir-Ellis: NYC Health and Hospitals Session Materials: Download PowerPoint Presentation “Fostering Partnership: From In-Patient Psych, to Medical Respite, to Permanent Housing” Download PowerPoint Presentation “Mental Health Services in Mobile Street Medicine”
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People who inject substances have long been at risk for soft tissue infections and wounds. However, with the increasing presence of the novel substance xylazine (“tranq”) in the opioid/fentanyl supply, there has been a drastic uptick in wound size, severity, and complexity, with people who use tranq more frequently experiencing such complications as cellulitis, necrosis,
