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.
Success Stories
For all of Carl’s life, little things have made a big difference. Starting early in his childhood, growing up in New Orleans, his parents probably thought the words they said to him were little things. But to a 5 year old boy, words like “You’ll never amount to anything,” become very big things...more
If you had been in the reception area of Healthcare for the Homeless -- Houston’s downtown clinic on May 5, you would have heard, in a Caribbean cadence and melody, Hazel Jack’s joyous song:
Ms. Jack, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was singing the song because, after a long and difficult time in Houston, she was finally returning home to her family...more
He’s from New Orleans and he’s a Katrina survivor who managed to make it safely to Houston after the storm. For 13 years he was an Assistant Manager at the world famous Café DuMond in the French Quarter. Then, in September, 2005, Katrina ravaged the city, changing Anthony’s life forever...more