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Health Care for the Homeless

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Description

The goal of the Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) program is to provide health care for individuals and families who are currently struggling with homelessness in Manchester, New Hampshire.

HCH's mobile clinic provides primary medical care, mental health care, addiction counseling, social services, nursing case management, and health education. A multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers including physicians, family and psychiatric nurse practitioners, nurses, addiction counselors, and social work/mental health counselors staff the mobile clinic. HCH is in session every weekday at the largest shelter in New Hampshire and Tuesdays-Thursdays at a transition housing program for homeless families.

Goal / Mission

The goal of the Health Care for the Homeless program is to provide health care for individuals and families who are currently struggling with homelessness.

Results / Accomplishments

The Health Care for the Homeless program has succeeded in increasing access to health care for over 1,000 individuals and family members who are currently homeless in Manchester, NH.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Catholic Medical Center
Primary Contact
Marianne Savarese
(603) 663-8716
msavarese@cmc-nh.org
http://www.catholicmedicalcenter.org/community-hea...
Topics
Health / Health Care Access & Quality
Organization(s)
Catholic Medical Center
Date of publication
1/1/2011
Date of implementation
1988
Geographic Type
Urban
Location
Manchester, NH
For more details
http://www.ahacommunityconnections.org/case-studie...
Target Audience
Families
Additional Audience
Homeless Individuals

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.
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