This is based on a quality improvement project in a large healthcare system. The model was designed to help justice-involved individuals who face many challenges after incarceration, including finding stable and safe housing, addressing physical and behavioral health needs, and meeting financial needs. This novel intervention adds specially trained peer specialists who team with reentry […]
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: Priya Srikanth: OHSU; Sarah Strang: The Road Home; Meg Devoe: Central City Concern, OHSU; Jeniece Olsen: Chief Operating Officer, Fourth Street Clinic; Eileen Vinton: Summit Team Complex Care Manager, Central City Concern; Brian Chan: Oregon Health & Science University, Central City Concern Session Materials: Download the PowerPoint Presentation
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Alcohol, heroin, fentanyl, and a host of other substances compound the complexity of healing without having a place to call home. Substance use disorders are epidemic; overdoses are at an all-time high. The effects frequently lead to cycling from the streets to the hospital to jail to shelter to the streets and back to the
Speakers: James Miller: Physician, Allegheny Health Network; Mehdi Mohammadi: Associate Clinical Professor of Dentistry, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC Session Materials: Download PowerPoint Presentation Download PDF Document: “The Street Medicine Auto-Refractive Technology (SMART) Study”
Oral Presentation 19: Vision and Dental Care Among People Experiencing Homelessness Read More >>
Speakers: Kara Cohen: Associate Director of Street Medicine, Project HOME Healthcare Services; Maire St. Ledger: Project HOME; Katie Burk: Managing Consultant, Facente Consulting Session Materials: Download PowerPoint Presentation
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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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Cook County Health Consumers make unique and invaluable contributions to governance and advocacy, and their voices are vital to the continuous advancement of high-quality and accessible health care. Consumers from various parts of the country and with a wide range of consumer engagement expertise, in partnership with NHCHC staff, will explore various elements of consumer
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