New Center Offers Homeless Patients Safe Place To Recover After Leaving A Hospital
"When you and I are discharged from the hospital, we go home and we eat chicken noodle soup, drink ginger ale and watch 'The Young and the Restless,'" said Kelly Bruno. "When you're an individual experiencing homelessness, you have no home to go to.
Ventura County Star:
New Ventura Center Gives Homeless Patients Place To Mend
The dozen beds that will open a week from Monday at Ventura's downtown Salvation Army are intended to close a revolving door. In rooms decorated with signs that offer thoughts like "Dream Big," the beds are the core of a long-awaited recuperative care center aimed at homeless patients ready to be discharged from a hospital but with nowhere to go to complete their recovery. (Kisken, 7/2)
In other news —
KQED:
California Taps Health Care Money To Pay For Homeless Services
The Whole Person Care program represents a breakthrough in using health care money for housing services, which the federal government had long been wary of doing. The five-year pilot program allows local governments to pay for support services, but not actual rental costs, through a matching grant from Medicaid. (Marzorati, 7/3)
KPBS:
Social Workers Go 'Tent To Tent' In Push To Help San Diego's Homeless
As San Diego leaders scramble in boardrooms and high-rise offices to combat one of the worst homeless problems in the nation, social workers are on the front lines of the crisis, already putting plans into action. ... The number of people sleeping outside in tents and under overpasses has soared 40 percent over the last three years. (Murphy, 7/5)