TY - JOUR
KW - Community Medicine
KW - Delivery of Health Care
KW - Homeless Persons
KW - Mental Health
KW - Public Health
AU - L. C. Weinstein
AU - M. D. Lanoue
AU - J. D. Plumb
AU - H. King
AU - B. Stein
AU - S. Tsemberis
A1 - 
AB - BACKGROUND: People with histories of homelessness and serious mental illness experience profound health disparities. Housing First is an evidenced-based practice that is working to end homelessness for these individuals through a combination of permanent housing and community-based supports. METHODS: The Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine and a Housing First agency, Pathways to Housing-PA, has formed a partnership to address multiple levels of health care needs for this group. We present a preliminary program evaluation of this partnership using the framework of the patient-centered medical home and the "10 Essential Public Health Services." RESULTS: Preliminary program evaluation results suggest that this partnership is evolving to function as an integrated person-centered health home and an effective local public health monitoring system. CONCLUSION: The Pathways to Housing-PA/Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine partnership represents a community of solution, and multiple measures provide preliminary evidence that this model is feasible and can address the "grand challenges" of integrated community health services.
BT - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
C5 - Healthcare Disparities; Medical Home
CP - 3
CY - United States
DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.03.120239
IS - 3
JF - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
N2 - BACKGROUND: People with histories of homelessness and serious mental illness experience profound health disparities. Housing First is an evidenced-based practice that is working to end homelessness for these individuals through a combination of permanent housing and community-based supports. METHODS: The Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine and a Housing First agency, Pathways to Housing-PA, has formed a partnership to address multiple levels of health care needs for this group. We present a preliminary program evaluation of this partnership using the framework of the patient-centered medical home and the "10 Essential Public Health Services." RESULTS: Preliminary program evaluation results suggest that this partnership is evolving to function as an integrated person-centered health home and an effective local public health monitoring system. CONCLUSION: The Pathways to Housing-PA/Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine partnership represents a community of solution, and multiple measures provide preliminary evidence that this model is feasible and can address the "grand challenges" of integrated community health services.
PP - United States
PY - 2013
SN - 1557-2625; 1557-2625
SP - 279
EP - 287
EP - 
T1 - A primary care-public health partnership addressing homelessness, serious mental illness, and health disparities
T2 - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
TI - A primary care-public health partnership addressing homelessness, serious mental illness, and health disparities
U1 - Healthcare Disparities; Medical Home
U2 - 23657696
U3 - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.03.120239
VL - 26
VO - 1557-2625; 1557-2625
Y1 - 2013
ER -