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Pinellas Hope outlines shelter operations, medical respite and housing outcomes to council
Summary
Pinellas Hope Director Joe Pandolfino updated council on operations, describing a 255-person capacity shelter that combines tents and renovated shipping-container cottages, a medical respite program, and a $3.1 million operating budget largely supported by donations and county funding.
Joe Pandolfino, director of Pinellas Hope, briefed the St. Petersburg City Council on Thursday about the nonprofit—s shelter and supportive-housing operations, describing a program that combines temporary shelter, medical respite and permanent supportive apartments.
"We serve a capacity of 255 homeless individuals in our shelter at a time," Pandolfino told council, saying that figure combines 96 renovated shipping-container cottages and 159 tent platforms. He said the program targets a 90-day engagement window but that the actual average length of stay was about 117 days; some residents remain longer because of complex medical, behavioral-health or housing-barrier issues.
Pandolfino described a medical-respite building that serves people recently discharged from hospital care and a mobile medical unit partnership that brings primary-care services on-site. He said the operation also…
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