Rapid Creation of a Multiagency Alternate Care Site for Covid-19– Positive Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

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ID11033079
AuthorsChen Wang (0000-0003-3042-291X, Cook County Health and Hospitals System), Chen Y Wang (Chen Y. Wang is with Cook County Health and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health, Chicago, IL. Melissa L. Palma, Christine Haley, Jeff Watts, and Keiki Hinami are with Cook County Health, Chicago, IL.), Melissa L Palma (0000-0003-1349-7928, Chen Y. Wang is with Cook County Health and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health, Chicago, IL. Melissa L. Palma, Christine Haley, Jeff Watts, and Keiki Hinami are with Cook County Health, Chicago, IL.), Christine Haley (Chen Y. Wang is with Cook County Health and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health, Chicago, IL. Melissa L. Palma, Christine Haley, Jeff Watts, and Keiki Hinami are with Cook County Health, Chicago, IL.), Jeff Watts (Chen Y. Wang is with Cook County Health and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health, Chicago, IL. Melissa L. Palma, Christine Haley, Jeff Watts, and Keiki Hinami are with Cook County Health, Chicago, IL.), Keiki Hinami (0000-0002-1927-2546, Chen Y. Wang is with Cook County Health and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Program in Public Health, Chicago, IL. Melissa L. Palma, Christine Haley, Jeff Watts, and Keiki Hinami are with Cook County Health, Chicago, IL.)
Year2021
Volume111
Issue7
Pages1227-1230
Publication date2021-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2021.306286
PMID34370535
OpenAlexW3190005794
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

Cook County Health partnered with the Chicago Departments of Public Health and Family & Support Services and several dozen community-based organizations to rapidly establish a temporary medical respite shelter during the spring 2020 COVID-19 peak for individuals experiencing homelessness in Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. This program provided low-barrier isolation housing to medically complex adults until their safe return to congregate settings. We describe strategies used by the health care agency, which is not a Health Resource and Services Administration Health Care for the Homeless grantee, to provide medical services and care coordination

Agency (philosophy) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Family medicine · Health care · Political science · Public health · Respite care · Sociology · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology

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