Five years ago, the National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) was created as a special program of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council to help expand and advance medical respite care. It is an understatement to say the program has exceeded expectations.
Creating a voluntary Medical Respite Certification process is just one of many significant accomplishments. The application process for all interested programs opens April 1, 2025!
To help us reach this milestone, 15 incredible programs participated in the certification testing phase. Their participation was instrumental in helping the Council’s medical respite team develop an effective and reliable certification process for the field of medical respite care.
We are proud and excited to announce that the following medical respite programs are officially NIMRC CERTIFIED! We are grateful for their important contributions.
- Bethlehem Haven Medical Respite (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Interfaith Community Services — Turk Recuperative Care Program (Escondido, CA)
- Poverello Center Medical Respite Program (Missoula, MT)
- RecoveryWorks Medical Respite Program (Lakewood, CO)
- Shasta Community HOPE Medical Respite Program [operated by Shasta Community Health Center and Pathways to Housing] (Redding, CA)
- The Boulevard (Chicago, IL)
- ShelterCare Medical Recuperation (Eugene, OR)
- The Gathering Inn Medical Respite Program (Roseville, CA)
- Circle the City Medical Respite (Phoenix, AZ)
- Hope Has a Home (Washington, DC)
- I.M. Sulzbacher Medical Respite (Jacksonville, FL)
- Salvation Army Medical Respite Centers (Eastern Michigan)
- Harbor Care Foundation — Recuperative Care (Mission Hills, CA)
- Center for Respite Care (Cincinnati, OH)
- Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Recuperative Care Program (Denver, CO)
Note: NIMRC intentionally recruited a geographically and organizationally diverse sample of MRC programs to participate in the testing phases. This ensured that MRC programs of different sizes, structures, financial resources, geographic regions, political contexts, and clinical capacity were all represented.
A robust report on the findings from the testing phases, plus frequently asked questions and much more information can be found on our certification page.