San Diego Non-Profit and Managed Care Company Brings Free Healthcare to Unhoused People
November 1, 2022
A non-profit team of clinicians is providing comprehensive care to San Diego’s unhoused population in a partnership with Medi-Cal, a medical provider for low-income people in California, and Molina Healthcare of California, a managed care company. The team, called Healthcare in Action, is comprised of five clinicians who work five days a week to give unhoused people care for chronic conditions and, critically, mental illnesses.
According to the team’s leader, Dr. Michael Hochman, “The follow-up is really where we start to make progress and get their medical conditions under control. And we really do have a goal of getting them housed, because when the mental health conditions and substance use and … physical conditions are under better control, that’s when the patient is better able to get a home. We’ve seen rapid results in schizophrenia. Once they start their medications, usually within a week, there’s a dramatic improvement.”
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(Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, October 30th, 2022)
