The National Institute for Medical Respite Care is a special initiative of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
National Institute for Medical Respite Care:
Creating Places to Heal
National Institute for Medical Respite Care: Creating Places to Heal
The National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) is the first national institute to advance best practices, expert services, and state-of-the-field knowledge in medical respite care (also known as recuperative care). Internal staff, consultants, and consulting teams address a range of principles and practices in creating or expanding medical respite care programs.
NIMRC Announces Call for Affiliate Consultants
Medical Respite Manager
What’s New

NIMRC is 3 Years Old!
In three years, NIMRC regranted $6.5 million to 54 unique medical respite programs in the United States. The NIMRC team has also handled 153 requests for consultation or technical access from medical respite programs across the country.

New Learning Courses
The National Institute for Medical Respite is pleased to announce our new Learning Portal. You will need to log in and this will allow keeping track of where you’re at in a course and which courses you’ve completed

New report: Promising Practices
Providing Behavioral Health Care in a Medical Respite Setting. This new resource highlights innovative and replicable strategies for meeting the behavioral health needs of consumers in medical respite programs.

Partnership Advances Medical Respite
Leading Health Care Organizations Form Unique Collaboration to Support Recuperative Care for People Experiencing Homelessness in California