We've successfully housed many of those folks who had cycled previously, like out of the hospital, to the street, to a nursing home, to jail, back to a hospital, back to the street, back to a nursing home.
Across the country, emergency departments have seen their homeless patient population double over the last decade.
If the only place that you can go is to an emergency department, then that's where they will seek care, whether that's for a medication refill or your heart attack.
In a given shift, I'm dealing with multiple patients that are asking me for help with drug or alcohol detox or asking me for help with shelter or asking me for help with mental illness, and we just have very limited resources.
#comprehensive-medical-care #homeless-healthcare #emergency-department #limited-resources #california-law-impact
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