This one-page workflow maps a patient’s path from hospital admission through skilled nursing facility care and on to medical respite care, step by step. It shows where referral and coordination happen, where payer authorization is required, what a clean handoff looks like at each transition, and what to do when a patient is not accepted. […]
This guide walks through how to launch a partnership between medical respite care programs, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals to serve unhoused patients. Drawing on interviews with communities that have built these partnerships, it covers the common approaches used to start the conversation, define roles, and put shared pathways in place. Part of the NIMRC
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The Space and Facility Planning Guidelines for Medical Respite Care Programs establish a national, evidence-based guideline to inform the planning and design of medical respite facilities. Based on best practices in medical, residential, and long-term care facility design and adapted to the needs of medical respite programs, the guidelines use a “form follows function” approach
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Support for medication management is an important part of medical respite care and overall health management, but programs must provide it within their staff’s scope of practice and licensing, with storage and supervision practices that follow state regulations. This guide helps medical respite care programs determine the most appropriate type of medication support they can
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This resource guide compiles resources and tools from across the field to support homeless health centers, community health centers, and community-based service organizations in strengthening meaningful engagement with youth and young adults with lived experience of homelessness. It is intended to help organizations partner with young people in ways that elevate their voices and create
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This evaluation report focuses on understanding how behavioral health services were implemented in medical respite programs and identifying factors that supported and barriers that hindered successful implementation. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) was adapted as the theoretical framework. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with MRC key informants and focused on the experience with implementation,
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Obtaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) from the Social Security Administration (SSA) provides vital and life-saving income for individuals who are unable to work or are unable to work at a rate to earn a sustainable income. In addition to income, these benefits provide stable access to health insurance which
Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death among all diseases and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people globally. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, representing 60-70% of all diagnoses. About 1 in every 9 people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s dementia, and it’s estimated about
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