Healthcare and Homelessness Partnerships

Teaching Health Centers: A Resource Guide — Academic & HCH Collaborations

Patrina Twilley, National Health Care for the Homeless Council The purpose of this resource guide is to assist Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) grantees with their efforts to establish and strengthen collaborations with academic institutions, which include medical and allied health professional training schools. A large number of HCH grantees already collaborate with academic […]

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Health and Homelessness among Veterans: A Needs Assessment of HCH Grantees

Sarah Knopf-Amelung, National Health Care for the Homeless Council The National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Council has released a final report on its multiphase veterans’ needs assessment. While most research on veterans experiencing homelessness is focused on those accessing care in the Veterans Administration (VA) setting, this study examines the subset of the

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Teaching Health Centers: A Case Study

Patrina Twilley, National Health Care for the Homeless Council Many health centers recognize the benefit of having medical residents serve patients and learn at their sites, and thus, consider their organizations “Teaching Health Centers (THC).” However, many of these health centers are not accredited and do not receive additional funding for providing these educational opportunities.

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Joining Forces: Improving Care for Veterans through HCH-VA Collaborations

Webinar Slides(PDF) Over 22,000 veterans were served by health care for the homeless grantees in 2011. Veterans are consistently over-represented in the homeless population, and although these numbers are decreasing thanks to federal efforts to end veteran homelessness, circumstances may change with the return of additional service members from the current conflict. Many veterans are

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Care Transitions for Patients Experiencing Homelessness

Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar will provide an introduction to transitional care and highlight a new care transition model developed by Oregon Health and Sciences University that targets low-income and uninsured patients, including those who are experiencing homelessness. Transitional care models aim to improve health care delivery, increase patient self-management skills, and reduce health care costs by

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How to Partner With Your Local Housing Authority

Webinar Slides(PDF) This webinar will focus on the barriers that public housing residents share with homeless individuals and the benefits of partnering with your local housing authority to surmount them. Alex Lehr O’Connell will also discuss HRSA’s Public Housing Primary Care Program. Speakers: Alex Lehr O’Connell, MPH, CPH; Manager, Technical Assistance and Consultation, Community Health Partners

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Strategies for Local and National Advocacy

Webinar Slides(PPT) This webinar contains information to help participants learn strategies for engaging in advocacy at the local level and in Washington, D.C., without adding significant burdens to the limited time and resources available to health care for the homeless grantees. Conscious economic and policy decisions over the last 30 years have contributed tremendously to contemporary

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