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Sabrina Edgington, MSSW
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Research and Evaluation
DISCHARGE PLANNING/WORKING WITH HOSPITALS
- Frequent Users of Public Services: Ending the institutional circuit - Changing systems to change lives, prepared by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, December 2009 – this report describes over a dozen programs, including medical respite programs that reduced public service utilization by frequent users of public services.
- Million Dollar Murray, The New Yorker, February 13, 2006. This article describes the high cost of managing homelessness. The majority of the costs incurred by Murray were from frequent hospital visits.
- Caring for the Homeless in our Communities: Post-Hospital Transition of Homeless Patients. This publication summarizes findings from a series of regional meetings held to encourage community dialogue regarding the post-hospital transition of homeless patients. The report identifies best practices and outlines opportunities to improve the hospital discharge of homeless patients. Medical respite care emerged as both the most significant gap and the most promising opportunity to improve services. The report finds that legislation, funding and technical assistance in creating respite centers would improve homeless residents' health care. Communities participating in the meetings report that case management services for homeless people are highly successful, and the report recommends more case management work with homeless patients. Hospital Council of Northern & Central California. December 2007.
- "Hospital Discharge of Homeless Persons in Chicago" (PowerPoint presentation by Arturo Bendixen at NAEH Conference, June 2006)
- Hospital Resources: A Practical Treatment Plan for Homeless Patients, Virtual Mentor. January 2009, Volume 11, Number 1.
- Medical Respite Programs for Homeless Persons: Survey on Relationships with Hospitals, 2008. Results from the Respite Research Task Force survey of 24 medical respite programs.
- Memorandum of Understanding between hospital and respite program (Sample)
- People Who Experience Long-Term Homelessness: Characteristics and Interventions. This paper was developed for the National Symposium on Homelessness Research held on March 1-2, 2007. It describes respite care as a promising approach to meeting the needs of chronically homeless people at the time of discharge from hospital or other health care facilities
- Refusal of Emergency Care and Patient Dumping, Virtual Mentor. January 2009, Volume 11,
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- "Strange Bedfellows" (PowerPoint presentation on Hospital Discharge Planning by Jim O'Connell, MD, at NAEH Conference, June 2006)
- Treating the homeless can go beyond medical care, March 2, 2009. The American Medical News Ethics Forum answers the question, "What duties does a doctor have to a homeless patient who repeatedly visits the ED?" The author provides a case scenario and describes medical respite programs as a humane approach to caring for homeless patients.
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