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.
Medical Outreach
We can’t always expect people who are homeless and ill to come to our clinics. They might not be aware of our services, they might not have ready access to transportation, or they might not be physically able to get to our locations.
To find the people most in need of medical attention, we go to the abandoned buildings, the freeway underpass encampments, and the soup kitchens where homeless people gather.
We provide this ‘street medicine’ regularly, Tuesday through Thursday, at The Way Station, an outreach ministry/breakfast program located in the courtyard of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church. And, on an as needed basis, we join the Mobile Outreach Program at SEARCH to help chronically homeless people who live on the streets.