HCH Directory - Maine

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City of Portland Public Health Division - Health Care for the Homeless

20 Portland Street
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: (207) 874-8445
Fax: (207) 874-8975
Email: cls@portlandmaine.gov
Web: www.ci.portland.me.us/h14.htm
Director: Julianne Sullivan, MBA, MPH
HCH Coordinator: Carol Schreck, PA-C, OTR/L
Medical Director: Phillip Carter, MD
UDS Number: 010620

Project Description

The HCH Program of the City of Portland is operated by the City of Portland's Public Health Division of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The HCH program provides on-site primary health care, dental services, and mental health and substance abuse services. Extensive outreach is done by primary care, dental, and mental health and substance abuse staff at meal sites, shelters, half-way houses, and campsites. Intensive mental health outreach and intervention is provided through collaboration with the Maine State Department of Health and Human Services. Respite care provides 24­hour nursing care. Access to volunteer sub specialists is provided. Primary care and dental services are available to teens in special clinics. All adult ambulatory care services are available to clients regardless of their ability to pay.

The Division of Social Services is part of the City of Portland's Department of Health and Human Services. Their services include shelters, employment and youth services, housing placements, general assistance, short term crisis intervention, and day respite services. Mercy Hospital contributes ancillary services, such as lab work, EKG, EEG, and x-rays. The Portland Community Free Clinic, another public health program, is supported by a unique combination of community volunteers, Mercy Hospital, and Public Health Division. This clinic offers specialty services, such as podiatry, orthopedics, and dermatology clinics. A volunteer dental clinic, another public health program, provides limited dental services. A clinic serving runaway and homeless youth operates within a collaborative of youth-serving agencies at a multi-service site. The community resource center is a centralized site of services.

Estimated homeless population: 3,500-5,000 Patients served: 2,342

Barron Center
1145 Brighton
Portland, ME 04102
Contact: Karen Percival
Phone: (207) 541-6533
Fax: (207) 541-6555
Email: kmp@portlandmaine.gov

York County Community Action Corporation

Mailing address:
PO Box 72
Sanford, ME 04073
Location:
6 Spruce Street
Sanford, ME 04073
Phone: (207) 459-2990
Fax: (207) 459-2890
Email: suzanneb@yccac.org
Web: www.yccac.org
Director: Thomas D. Nelson
HCH Coordinator: Suzanne Brunner
Medical Director: William Chernin, MD
UDS Number: 019970

Project Description

This project is located in the rural, southernmost county in Maine. Dual programs, HCH and Public Housing Primary Care, are located at a multi-services site (WIC, Head Start, Outreach, Transportation, etc.) and operated by York County Community Action Corporation.

Services include primary and preventive health care, oral health, and mental health/substance abuse diagnostic and treatment services for adults, children, and adolescents in York County. Services also include support/liaison services, respite care beds, and access to transitional and permanent housing. A Healthy Habits Center, focused on implementing preventive health strategies, is implemented collaboratively with York County Shelter Programs.

Linkages include York County Shelter Programs, Sanford Housing Authority, Counseling Services, Sweetser Homeless Youth Outreach Services, Goodall Hospital, University of New England Schools of Medicine and Allied Professions, Maine Medical Center, and Partners for Healthier Communities.

Estimated homeless population: 800 Patients served: 1,399