Fact Sheet Provides Overview of Heart Disease, Diabetes
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Diabetes can be a challenging diagnosis for an individual to manage, often requiring increased engagement with health care providers and the health care system, along with behavioral and lifestyle changes. People experiencing homelessness and housing instability are two times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than the general population. Diabetes-management activities become much more
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Hundreds of HCH professionals and people with lived experience of homelessness convened in Baltimore in May to share research, best practices, wisdom, and more at #HCH2023. The theme of the 2023 national conference was “Toward Justice: Leading with Lived Expertise.” Now you can access the presentation materials, videos, and information from many of the conference
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Subpoena Policy and Procedure Primary audience: HCH health center staff. Subpoena Policy and Procedure at Health Care for the Homeless Sites The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule) protects individually identifiable health information and defines circumstances when individual’s protected health information (PHI) can
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The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is now accepting abstracts for the 2024 NHCHC conference, slated for May 13-16 in Phoenix at the Arizona Grand Resort and Spa. This year’s conference theme is “Toward Access and EquaLity: Embracing an Equitable Approach to Health Care.” We’re excited to continue fostering collaboration and action planning around the critical pillars of
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Post updated July 10, 2024 Extreme heat is a growing public health threat. And the risk of a heat-related death is two to three hundred times higher for people living unsheltered than for the population at large, according to David Hondula, director of Phoenix’s first-in-the-nation Office of Heat Response and Mitigation. In 2022, homeless deaths
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The July edition of the National HCH Council’s monthly policy action alert newsletter is live! Here’s what’s in it: Want to receive Mobilizer in your inbox each month? Sign up here!
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By Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Director of Policy It’s summer and it’s hot, so let’s take a break from the usual focus on the things that are killing us (literally and figuratively) and instead focus on three things happening in the Medicaid space that are advancing life-affirming policies! 1. New Code for Street Medicine It’ll soon be
Actually, some good things are happening too! Read More >>