Mobilizer: While COVID Wanes (Again), Harm Reduction Faces Unexpected Setback
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Policy and Advocacy
Congressional Budget Office:Economic Effects of Five Illustrative Single-Payer Health Care Systems: Working Paper 2022-02
This paper builds on previous studies published by the Congressional Budget Office about single-payer health care systems. It uses a general-equilibrium, overlapping-generations model to analyze the economic and distributional implications of five illustrative single-payer health care systems. The systems vary by their payment rates to providers, degree of cost sharing, and inclusion of benefits for
Building Sustainable Partnerships using the Community Centered Health Home Model
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
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Homeless in the ED: Partnerships to Improve Care for People without Homes in Emergency Departments
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
Clinicians’ Network Community Conversations: Working with Children and Families
Launched in November 2021, the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network hosts monthly Community Conversations. Forming around pressing issues affecting providers (defined broadly) who serve people experiencing homelessness, Community Conversations are not webinars: they are discussions informed by real-life cases meant to improve wellbeing of HCH providers through mutual support and problem-solving. Therefore,
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External Link: Expanding Options for Health Care Within Homelessness Services: CoC Partnerships with Medical Respite Care Programs
A brief to improve health care quality and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 response by strengthening partnerships between homelessness assistance systems and medical respite care (MRC) providers. This brief features the views of both Continuums of Care (CoCs) and MRC staff about how to best integrate operations at the systemic level, as
External Link: One Community’s Collaborative Approach: A Spotlight on Yakima, Washington
Some communities have made tremendous strides to effectively align homelessness services and MRC programs. This spotlight interview includes the housing, CoC, and MRC leaders in Yakima, Washington. They describe their MRC program, how it fits within their community’s response to homelessness, their collective approaches to racial equity, and specific ways they have strengthened their system