Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets

<p>Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old idea to care for homeless people who are too healthy to be in the hospital, but too sick to be on the streets?</p><br><p><u>Guests:</u></p><br><p>Henry Jones, former medical respite patient</p><p><a href="https://christhouse.org/archived-interview-dr-goetcheus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Janelle Goetcheus</a>, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Christ House</p><p><a href="https://nhchc.org/who-we-are/staff/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Julia Dobbins</a>, MSW, Director of Medical Respite, National Health Care for the Homeless Council</p><p>Jack Kline, LICSW, LCSW-C, Former Executive Program Director, <a href="https://www.voachesapeake.org/hopehasahome" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hope Has A Home</a></p><p><a href="https://www.carefirstchpdc.com/team-members.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Karyn Wills</a>, MD, Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst Blue Cross Community Health Plan, DC</p><br><p>Learn more about medical respite and read a full transcript on <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/2022/04/28/medical-respite-homelessness/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">our website</a>.</p><br><p>Want more Tradeoffs? Sign up for our free <a href="https://tradeoffs.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6ab1fc39a0b1b15521551487c&amp;id=89c5edcb93&amp;utm_source=twitter-newsletter-signup&amp;utm_medium=twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">weekly newsletter</a> featuring the latest health policy research and news.</p><br><p>Support this type of journalism today, <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">with a gift</a>.</p><br><p>Follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.&nbsp;</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/priv