Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Healthc (Amst). 2021 Sep;9(3):100557. doi: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100557. Epub 2021 May 27.
Homelessness is a neglected crisis throughout the United States. In Los Angeles (L.A.) County, nearly 59,000 residents are homeless, and the vast majority are unsheltered. An academic institution and L.A county's largest public hospital formed a partnership to launch a Street Medicine (SM) program. SM assists the inpatient team with discharge planning and builds rapport with the patient experiencing homelessness. After discharge, the SM team follows up and brings care to the patient on the streets, often developing a trusting relationship and establishing continuity of primary care. During a 12-month period, SM provided inpatient consults for 206 unsheltered homeless patients.
在美国，无家可归是一个被忽视的危机。在洛杉矶县，有近 59000 名居民无家可归，其中绝大多数人没有住所。一所学术机构和洛杉矶县最大的公立医院建立了合作伙伴关系，推出了街头医疗（SM）项目。SM 协助住院团队进行出院计划，并与无家可归的患者建立关系。出院后，SM 团队会跟进并为患者提供街头护理，通常会建立信任关系，并建立初级保健的连续性。在 12 个月的时间里，SM 为 206 名无家可归的无家可归者提供了住院咨询。
