Medical Respite Care Directory

IMPORTANT: We are in the process of creating a NEW medical respite care directory to launch by late February. To be included in the new directory, medical respite/recuperative care programs must complete a new form which is available here. Programs are asked to complete it as soon as possible. To ensure the information we have is accurate and up to date, we will NOT be moving entries listed in the current directory over to the new directory. In addition, only programs who have completed a directory profile will be eligible to apply for certification, which is set to launch in early Spring.

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Medical Respite Care is acute and post-acute care for people experiencing homelessness who are too ill or frail to recover from a physical illness or injury on the streets, but who are not ill enough to be in a hospital. This directory contains descriptions of all known medical respite care programs in the United States; these programs offer safe shelter, clinical care, and aftercare planning assistance that people without homes need to recover from illnesses or injuries.

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council’s Respite Care Providers’ Network assembled these descriptions to inform others about the vital services these programs offer, and to facilitate communication among them. Membership in the Respite Care Providers’ Network is free; learn more.

To find medical respite programs by state, hover over or click a state on the map. You can also find a state by scrolling down the page to the list.

States on the map are grouped according to their HRSA region. HRSA (the Health Resources and Services Administration), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.

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