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Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
Podcast |
Tradeoffs
Publisher |
Tradeoffs
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
News & Politics
Science
Publication Date |
Aug 25, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:21:32

Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old idea to care for homeless people who are too healthy to be in the hospital, but too sick to be on the streets?

Guests:

Henry Jones, former medical respite patient

Janelle Goetcheus, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Christ House

Julia Dobbins, MSW, Director of Medical Respite, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Jack Kline, LICSW, LCSW-C, Former Executive Program Director, Hope Has A Home

members.html">Karyn Wills, MD, Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst Blue Cross Community Health Plan, DC

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