HCH Directory - New Mexico

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Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Inc.

Mailing Address:
PO Box 25445
Albuquerque, NM 87125-0445
Email: jennifermetzler@abqhch.org
Location:
1217 First Street NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: (505) 766-5197
Fax: (505) 766-6945
Email: julierosen@abqhch.org
Web: www.abqhch.org
Director: Julie Rosen/Jenny Metzler
Medical Director: Sandra Penn, MD
UDS Number: 061440

Project Description

Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless (AHCH) provides services at four facilities and through extensive outreach. All sites, except residential, are located in the city core area, near emergency shelters, hospitals, meal sites, and main public transportation routes. The AHCH mission is to provide caring and comprehensive health and support services, linking people experiencing homelessness to individual and collective solutions, and to be a leader in creating service delivery models and solutions to homelessness.

AHCH operates a free-standing medical clinic, offering primary care, psychiatry, and volunteer-run ophthalmology, dermatology, podiatry, neurology, pain, pulmonary, and specialty clinics. A motel voucher program lodges people who are homeless who require shelter during recuperation and provides emergency shelter for families in crisis. The dental clinic offers emergency, preventive, and restorative care. AHCH also offers a daily drop-in center, social work assistance, client advocacy, and short and long-term case management. A harm reduction team conducts outreach, testing, counseling, and vaccinations, as well as prevention education and syringe exchange. The project provides a continuum of behavioral health services based on harm reduction and community/social models of recovery for co-occurring and multiple disorders. These include art therapy and an art-as-therapy community open studio project and individual and group counseling and therapy. Three residential programs include a 6 to 9 month social model recovery house for up to 12 homeless men, another 6 to 9 month residential treatment program for 12­15 women and some children, and a transitional housing program for men and women in recovery.

AHCH coordinates service delivery and links to public and private hospitals and clinics and a range of homeless service providers, including behavioral health providers, shelters, meal sites, transitional housing programs, clothing banks, detention centers, social service organizations, job training/employment, and educational support services.

Estimated homeless population: 12,000-15,000 Patients served: 3,930

La Familia Medical Center Healthcare for the Homeless of Santa Fe

Mailing Address:
PO Box 5395
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Location:
818 Camino Sierra Vista
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone: (505) 988-1742
Fax: (505) 988-2184
Email: e_reynolds@lfmctr.org
Web: http://lafamiliasf.org
Director: Rick Adesso, CEO
HCH Coordinator: Elizabeth Reynolds
Medical Director: Gary Harris, MD
UDS Number: 063920

Project Description

The La Familia Medical Center Healthcare for the Homeless of Santa Fe provides primary care services with linkages to existing community services for persons who are homeless in Santa Fe County.

HCH of Santa Fe operates out of a free-standing medical clinic and also provides service at multiple medical outreach sites throughout the week. Services include primary health care, dental care, mental health and substance abuse service linkage, case management, transportation, and outreach services.

Linkages include St. Vincent Hospital, Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families, NM Department of Health, Public Health Division, Santa Fe Recovery Center, Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Santa Fe Community Guidance Center, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Elizabeth's Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services.

Estimated homeless population: 4,000-5,000 Patients served: 1,100

LifeLink - La Luz de Santa Fe Family Shelter
2325 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Contact: Carol Anderson
Phone: (505) 438-0010
Fax: (505) 438-6011
Email: carollink@aol.com

Presbyterian Medical Services/Farmington Community Health Center

1422 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: (505) 982-5565
Fax: (505) 986-8299
Email: jim_riebsomer@pmsnet.org
Web: www.pms-inc.org
Director: James L. Riebsomer
HCH Coordinator: Doug Smith
Medical Director: Larry Lyons
UDS Number: 063450

Project Description

Presbyterian Medical Services (PMS) has been providing primary medical care, dental care, and behavioral health services in rural New Mexico for 37 years, operating 29 free-standing primary health clinics in 15 counties statewide. Its integrated model of care addresses health disparities of populations at risk for poor health outcomes and expands access to primary care for underserved residents who dominate PMS' service areas.

Farmington Community Health Center (FCHC) is the only federally-funded safety net provider in San Juan County. FCHC provides primary care, mental health care, pharmacy, radiology, alcohol and drug abuse counseling, HIV/AIDS outreach, infection control, laboratory services, diabetic specialty clinic, and health education. Direct services for the HCH program are delivered through a 0.2 FTE physician and 1.0 FTE midlevel provider. HCH services also include transportation, eligibility assistance, and the delivery of substance abuse health care.

To promote access to enabling services often required by HCH patients, the HCH program has informal relationships with State Income Support Division, local human service providers, home health and hospice providers, local schools and Head Start programs, housing authority, shelters, and food and clothing bank providers.

Statistics

Estimated homeless population: 2,100