A Major Effort to Link Homeless Response and Health Care

The mantra “housing is health care” has been repeated by advocates for the homeless for decades. In 2017, a group of health systems formed the Healthcare Anchor Network, to harness their economic resources and community relationships to directly address social conditions that lead to poor health. A new pilot project is exploring how health-care systems can best help end chronic homelessness in their communities, with an intention to develop models than can be scaled nationally. The health care and homelessness pilot is built on strategies to bring about quality improvements in systems where lack of information and non-coordinated effort made complex problems even harder to solve. Learn more here.