Pending the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decisions, Council staff continue to focus on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its impact on people experiencing homelessness. The Health Reform and Homelessness policy statement highlights our priorities for outreach and enrollment, expansions of health centers and workforce, coverage for services provided in permanent supportive housing MORE 
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Mobilizer: Human Needs Sacrificed for Pentagon Spending
The House of Representatives’ plans to vote on a package of spending cuts aimed at a variety of low-income programs. The publicly stated purpose is for deficit reduction, but there are no additional revenues and actual increases in defense spending. Your Representative in the House needs to know cutting low-income programs to pay down a debt MORE
National HCH Council Awarded CMS Innovations Grant
We are very pleased to announce that the National Health Care for the Homeless Council is among the first 26 recipients of Innovations Awards from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services. The funded project will work through the Council’s Practice-Based Research Network to establish Community Health Workers at 10 FQHCs. The CHWs will focus on MORE
Dr. Georges Benjamin to Speak at National Conference
Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, will deliver the Susan L. Neibacher Address to open the 2012 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference on Wednesday, May 16th, in Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Benjamin, well known in the world of public health as a leader, practitioner and administrator, has been the MORE
Ready, Set, Go: The Road to Meaningful Use of EHRs
Thursday, May 24, 2012 | 1:00PM EDT This webinar will focus on key strategies for successful adoption and utilization of electronic health records including workforce development, financial support and federal incentives, provider and consumer education, and communication infrastructure to meet the meaningful use requirements of the 2009 ARRA HITECH ACT. Highlighting best practice examples of successful MORE
Medicaid’s Home and Community-Based Services Program: An Orientation for Homeless Health Care Providers
Thursday, May 31, 2012 | 2PM EDT The Medicaid expansion in 2014 to cover most people earning at or below 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL) will make nearly all people who are experiencing homelessness eligible for Medicaid. While health insurance coverage is a significant step towards improved health and wellness for people who lack MORE
2012 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium
Register today | Full details about the national conference Conference discount room rates extended through April 20! Join Us in Kansas City, May 16-18, 2012 After 27 years, Health Care for the Homeless providers and advocates from around the country will gather again to learn from each other and leaders in the field. This year we MORE
Live Training: LGBT Health Care and Housing: Strategies & Resources
Map and Directions | Register Friday, June 29, 2012 | 8:30AM – 5:ooPM CDT The Oasis Center, 1704 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37212 This full-day, live training presented by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council in partnership with The Fenway Institute and the Oasis Center, at the Oasis Center in Nashville, Tennessee will offer MORE
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