Leading Voices – Caitlin Synovec – Literature Review
Caitlin Synovec is the Medical Respite Program Manager for NIMRC. As medical respite/recuperative care has grown, the available research and publications on medical respite have also increased. Previously, the most recent synopses of the evidence supporting medical respite care were completed in 2009 by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and in a systematic review by Kelly Doran…
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Leading Voices – Caitlin Synovec – State of Medical Respite/Recuperative Care Programs — New Report
Caitlin Synovec is the Medical Respite Program Manager for NIMRC. Medical respite and recuperative care has expanded significantly in the last several years, with programs continuing to grow across the country. Without an overarching regulatory body, the NIMRC Medical Respite Directory is the central location to identify respite programs across the country. The data captured within the Medical Respite Directory…
Leading Voices – Caitlin Synovec – Medical Respite Organizational Self-Assessment
Caitlin Synovec is the Medical Respite Program Manager for NIMRC. The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s Medical Respite Standards were developed to serve as a framework for medical respite programs; to support medical respite programs’ ability to operate safely, effectively, and seamlessly with local health care systems; and to promote program development and growth (NHCHC, 2016). Although medical…
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Leading Voices – Julia Dobbins – Outcome Measures & Data Collection in Medical Respite
Julia Dobbins is the Director of Programs and Services for NIMRC. While medical respite has grown exponentially in the last ten years, it is still a fairly recent addition to the homeless health care field with the earliest programs beginning in the 1980s. Only 35 states have medical respite programs and of those, only a few have five or more…
Leading Voices – Bobby Watts – Why the Council?
Bobby Watts is the Director of the NIMRC Initiative and the CEO of the National Health Care for the Council. Interest in Medical Respite (aka Recuperative Care) has increased dramatically over the past few years, and interest accelerated during the past months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this increased demand for Medical Respite Care, two months ago, the…
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Issues – Barbara DiPietro – NIMRC’s Public Policy Focus
Barbara DiPietro is the Director of Policy for NIMRC. Our goal at the National Institute for Medical Respite Care is to improve health care services and health outcomes for people who are homeless. But the success of medical respite care programs depends on strong public policy support. That’s why NIMRC has a dedicated policy focus that examines how legislative and…
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