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Health care ‘game-changer’? Feds boost care for homeless Americans: CNN

Nurse Anna Cummings prepares an injection while Keri Weinstock, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, speaks with patient Linda Wood, who is homeless.

October 16, 2023
The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — and where — health care is delivered. CNN quotes Brett Feldman, director of USC Street Medicine, stating that more than 150 street medicine programs operate across the country, according to street medicine experts. At least 50 are in California, up from 25 in 2022. Health care ‘game-changer’? Feds boost care for homeless Americans

The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — and where — health care is delivered. CNN quotes Brett Feldman, director of USC Street Medicine, stating that more than 150 street medicine programs operate across the country, according to street medicine experts. At least 50 are in California, up from 25 in 2022.

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