"Affordability is in the spotlight right now, and the need to build more affordable homes is a focus in both national and Illinois conversations. But building more homes is only part of the picture; we also need to make sure people can actually buy and keep them, which means supporting–and ideally expanding–homebuyer education"
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The Street Medicine program... has reduced 30-day readmission rates to Lehigh Valley Hospital from 51 percent to 13 percent.. [and has raised] the rate of insured homeless from 24 percent to 73 percent |
For hospital both private and public, recuperative care also has the potential to lower overall costs and decease the rate of hospital readmissions. Health officials estimate that each day in a bad at LA County's safety-net hospital costs the county more than $3,000, while a bed at a recuperative care facility averages about $150 per day |
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The only difference between the homeless women I regularly hear from and the women who are now coming forward and having their stories believed is that when homeless women speak, no one listens... women experiencing homelessness already live at the margins of society. in the margins of society, in the margins of the MeToo Movement, and in the margins of our minds. At the very least, we must see and acknowledge their reality |
"MILLION DOLLAR MURRAY"
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"MR. G AND THE REVOLVING DOOR"
"A patient with complex needs returns to the hospital again and again, despite his care team's efforts to reduce readmissions"
~Carolyn Dickens, Denise Weitzel, and Stephen Brown Read more... |
"Opportunity starts at home. our advocacy starts now."
"Articulate the goal and the broad strategy for achieving it...identify and work with all parties affected...set specific objectives...organize all the related interests in support of those objectives."
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