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Improving a Sanctioned Homeless Encampment for Veterans During COVID-19 Through Multilevel Partnerships.

Authors :
McCoy, Matthew
Kalofonos, Ippolytos
Altman, Lisa
Gelberg, Lillian
Capone-Newton, Peter
Lynch, Kimberly
Clair, Kimberly
Nazinyan, Mariam
McGahran, Matthew
Santini, Chanin
Daugharty, Monte
DeFraites, Emily
Gabrielian, Sonya
Source :
Psychiatric Services; Jan2024, Vol. 75 Issue 1, p94-97, 4p
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

A veteran-clinician-researcher partnership—the Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Service (CTRS)—enabled quality improvement within a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs–sanctioned homeless encampment created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the differing concerns of clinicians and operational leaders led to challenges in defining CTRS's goals and quality metrics, partnering with frontline social work and peer staff (N=11) and veterans (N=21 of 381 CTRS participants) and considering their feedback resolved those differences. Multilevel partnerships improved care within the encampment, leading to the development of an encampment medicine team (providing onsite integrated health care) and a veteran engagement committee (providing feedback). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10752730
Volume :
75
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Psychiatric Services
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
174533908
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20220385