Before You Launch: The First Steps in Building a Medical Respite Program Medical respite care, also known as recuperative care, is acute and post-acute medical care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover from a physical illness or injury on the streets, but who are not ill enough to be […]
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Post-COVID Conditions (PCC) Toolkit for Health Care Professionals from Americares Nearly half of Americans with post-COVID conditions (PCC) turn to their doctors for guidance. At NHCHC and Americares, we understand the critical role you play and the challenges you may face in staying current on this evolving field. We’re here to support you with the
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Introduction During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Care for the Homeless health centers collaborated with homeless shelters to mitigate COVID-19 transmission. This experience revealed that health centers and shelters can successfully collaborate to create a continuum of care that is better equipped to increase access to care and improve health outcomes for patients/residents,
Introduction The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s Substance Use Guidelines are brief substance-specific guidelines intended for use by anyone who is a consumer of services or a service provider working with people experiencing homelessness and people who use drugs. The guidelines were developed with the help of national and community-based experts and made
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The Medical Respite Budget Tool is intended to provide medical respite care providers and funders with a framework for understanding and planning for program costs in operating a medical respite. There are 5 factors that will impact program budget planning: Establishing program costs is beneficial when starting and operating a medical respite program and can
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The purpose of this tool kit is to provide information and tools to help organizations and advocates plan, develop, and sustain medical respite care programs. This tool kit organizes existing resources developed by the National Institute for Medical Respite Care, National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and other medical respite care providers while incorporating
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This toolkit will share the findings and implications from the communities who conduct homeless mortality reviews, as well as provides guidance on developing or improving a homeless mortality review. Lessons will include how to create partnerships, methods of data collection and analysis, and examples of how communities have used this information to address homeless mortality.
