This year's Medical Respite Pre-conference Institute, Medical Respite Care Everywhere: Building our Future, will include concurrent sessions  to meet the learning needs of both new and established program providers.

The morning session will include an introduction to medical respite care  and program development. A concurrent advanced session will focus on funding strategies, medical respite policy and advocacy issues, and implications and solutions for reducing the incidence of administrative discharge and patients who leave against medical advice. During the afternoon, both new and established program providers will come together to learn and share approaches to handling challenging clinical and administrative medical respite cases. 

Several medical respite workshops will be offered throughout the annual conference. More details about the conference and early registration will be available on February 15 on the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's website.

 

• Serve 420 individuals in recuperative program
• Connect 280 (or 67 percent) to permanent housing or transitional programs
• Generate $630,000 funding for Illumination Foundation programs
• Secure partnerships with hospitals in Orange County through collaboration with Hospital Association of Southern California and National Health Foundation

• Provide basic needs including shelter, food, hygiene supplies and bus passes
• All patients receive mental health counseling and critical case management to assist with their homelessness and connect them to resources designed for their specific needs
• Connect patients to a medical home and introduce them to community services that they may not have had access to previously
• Patients are entitled to all of the Illumination Foundation's services while staying in the Recuperative Program
• Maintain medical and nursing oversight of the program to ensure effectiveness