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SHOW vans provide street-based care to unhoused New Yorkers, committee hears
Summary
At a June meeting of Manhattan Community Board 2's Human Services Committee, Andy Cook of NYC Health + Hospitals described the Street Health Outreach and Wellness (SHOW) vans: how they operate, who they serve, staffing and costs, and the program's results and limits as officials consider local advocacy.
At the June meeting of the Human Services Committee of Manhattan Community Board 2, Andy Cook, administrative director of the Street Health Outreach and Wellness program at NYC Health + Hospitals, described the SHOW vans and how they deliver primary care and social services to people living on the street.
SHOW — described by Cook as “street medicine” — uses adapted minibuses and roving teams to bring wound care, chronic-disease management, harm-reduction supplies and social-work support directly to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. “We currently have 5 SHOW units across the city,” Cook said, noting the program is funded by the city and baselined to run six units.
Committee members pressed for operational details and local implications. Cook said each SHOW unit is affiliated with one Health + Hospitals facility that operates a primary‑care safety‑net clinic; Bellevue operates two SHOW units (one at Sara D. Roosevelt Park and one in East…
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