This presentation will provide an overview of a new one of a kind, innovative development project that will help to meet the needs of our state’s most vulnerable and underserved communities. The new facility will provide safe, dignified, and quality spaces for people experiencing homelessness to heal and stabilize from medical issues. The facility will […]
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People experiencing housing instability are at higher risk for emergency department admissions, poor health outcomes and shorter life-expectancies. In September 2022, a major hospital in the mid-South implemented a two-question housing screening tool within the Emergency Department as a standard part of registration and triage. When the patient is identified as housing unstable, a social
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Health centers have long been on the forefront of social determinants of health work, identifying innovative ways to provide person-centered, holistic care. Part of this has been understanding health centers alone cannot address the needs of their community and ensuring community health and improving the quality of life for the people we serve. Partnerships
Building Sustainable Partnerships using the Community Centered Health Home Model Read More >>
Wednesdays, March 16, 23, and 30 – 2022  Go to Downloadable Webinar Files  People experiencing homelessness are often managing significant complex health issues but are unable to access needed primary care or must prioritize immediate survival over health management. The result is that health conditions are often untreated until it’s an emergency. Emergency
April 7th: Washington, DC Webinar Slides(PDF) Partnership: Unity Health Care and the Washington, DC Department of Human ServicesJoin our facilitated discussion on their community collaboration to implement vaccine rollout, operationalized innovative Isolation/Quarantine solutions, and focus on long-term housing solutions. April 13th: Hennepin County, Minnesota Webinar Slides(PDF) Partnership: Health Care for the Homeless and the Minnesota
Webinar Slides(PDF) Medicaid & Medicaid Managed Care: Financing Approaches for Medical Respite Care(LINK) NIMRC(LINK) Medicaid and managed care organizations (MCOs) are increasingly providing financial support for medical respite care programs because they recognize the value of these models of care. This webinar will feature program administrators from two very different medical respite programs who
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Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar was produced in response to a technical assistance request for public entity health care for the homeless grantees developing their co-applicant agreements. This webinar covers the nuts and bolts of the health center program requirements on governance, public entity/agency structure, and co-applicant arrangements. The webinar will also feature two health care for
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Webinar Slides(PDF) Civil Legal Needs and Homelessness(PDF) Health Affairs Jack Tsai(PDF) Using the law to inform empowered patient care in Austin(PDF) Homelessness, Health, and Medical-Legal Partnerships(PDF) Join the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the National HCH Council for a discussion on how medical-legal partnerships can address the civil legal needs of people without
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