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Potential collaboration between SHOW and Bridge to Home programs
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Dr. Mitch Katz discusses how the SHOW program could collaborate with the new Bridge to Home program to efficiently serve individuals in need.
- The plan is to have the SHOW van located close to the Bridge to Home facility at least a couple of days a week.
- This proximity will allow Bridge to Home residents to access medical care without establishing separate medical facilities at the Bridge to Home site.
- The collaboration will enable the provision of services like blood pressure checks, diabetes treatment, and wound care to Bridge to Home residents.
Mercedes Narcisse
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you.
0:26:42
Bridge to Home is a new program funded in the preliminary plan to provide support to homeless individuals with severe mental health issues.
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And if I go back to SHOH, SHOH is a street medicine program that brings medical care to homeless individuals include including substance abuse intervention.
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How can SHO and BRIDGE to whom collaborate to efficiently use resources and better serve those individuals in need?
Dr. Mitch Katz
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So you always think like a nurse.
0:27:24
Yep.
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Yes, we the plan would be to have the van be very close in proximity at least a couple of days to the bridge because we're not we were not we're not gonna establish medical care at the bridge.
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So this way, can access the medical part, have their blood pressure checked and treated.
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We treat diabetes.
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We treat wound infections.
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So being able to put the van very close to the site once we have a site will enable us to provide the medical care without additional expenses.