Dr. David Buck has been appointed to the 15-member Advisory Board of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program. The board, newly created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services on grants and loans to establish nonprofit, member-run health insurers serving the individual and small-group markets.. (read GAO Press Release)
Frances Isbell, Executive Director, presented Integrated Care, Goal-Negotiated Care and Jail Inreach at the annual conference of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, meeting June 2-5 in San Francisco.
VIVA Volunteers
The Volunteer Appreciation Picnic was held Saturday, May 8 from 12-2 at Christ Church Cathedral.
Examples of courageous people who are taking steps out of homelessness.
Recent News Stories and Articles
04/15/2010, David S. Buck, MD, MPH and Healthcare for the Homeless – Houston have been named 2010 Health Care Heroes Award Finalists by the Houston Business Journal in the categories of Innovator and Community Outreach, respectively. Award recipients will be named at the Health Care Heroes Award Luncheon on Wednesday, May 19. For more information or reservations, go to http://events.bizjournals.com/9331.
12/14/2008, Houston Chronicle
Small Interventions, large consequences
by Lisa Gray
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4677795
12/9/2008, Houston Chronicle
Dr. David Buck, founder of Healthcare for the Homeless, gives free healthcare
to homeless people at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church.
Video by Johnny Hanson.
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/07/templates/listpop.html?
mcVideo=4375900001
07/21/2008, Houston Chronicle
A Difficult Cycle / When jail is the only place mentally ill inmates get treatment,
they come back, and it costs $87 million / Finding Escape Behind Bars
By Bill Murphy
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4601260
6/2/2008, KUHF-FM
Health Care for Former Inmates Saves Harris County Money
By Capella Tucker
http://app1.kuhf.org/houston_public_radio-news-display.php?articles_id=1212422214
06/19/2008, Houston Chronicle
Dr. George Sayre recognized for his work with city's homeless, orphans
By Valerie Sweeten
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4585199
5/16/2008, Houston Chronicle
Homeless Woman Returns Home
http://www.chron.com/commons/readerblogs/centralhouston.html?
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