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Healthcare providers say outreach, mobile clinics and case management cut costs and prevent returns to homelessness
Summary
Local health and recovery leaders told a summit that integrated primary care, mobile clinics, and intensive case management reduce avoidable emergency care and help people keep housing. Panelists urged closer hospital‑to‑CE discharge coordination and expanded crisis services.
At a midday summit panel on health and homelessness, healthcare and recovery leaders described how primary‑care access, street medicine and intensive case management can improve housing stability and reduce emergency service use.
Lisa Aquino, CEO of Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, described clinic capacities that specifically serve people who are unhoused: sliding fees, a Health Care for the Homeless grant, integrated behavioral health, on‑site lab and x‑ray, and a mobile clinic that visits shelters. “As a part of being a…
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