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This group created health care centers based in homeless shelters and hospitals. They utilized a team of medical staff that worked in a rotation of multiple settings. [5] Dr. Jim O'Connell is the founding physician and president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless. [6]
A public agency and private health insurance provider are teaming up to build a system of street doctors and clinics that will provide medical care to Los Angeles' homeless population, including ...
Another study out of Boston found similar results with homeless patients requiring 50% fewer hospital readmissions in the 90-days following medical respite program participation than those released to their own care (the street or shelter). [12] Medical respite care has been discussed in the American Medical New Ethics Forum. [13] [14]
In some regards, homeless street outreach merely acts as a bridge or stepping stone to fixed site services that can provide greater support and continuity of care. [ 15 ] A survey of unhoused individuals who engaged with services revealed that there is “improvement in general health, mental health, vitality after street outreach contacts, but ...
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Patient dumping or homeless dumping is the practice of hospitals and emergency services inappropriately releasing homeless or indigent patients to public hospitals or onto the streets instead of transferring them to a homeless shelter or retaining them.
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