Housing for health in the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles tent community

T Owens, D Ewing, M Devera, S Shrestha… - Annals of Family …, 2022 - Annals Family Med
2University of California, Los Angeles, California or in a secluded area on the tent site
(Supplemental Figure 3). All veterans were tested for COVID-19 within 24 hours of …

Veterans Finding Community and a “Home” Within an Emergency Housing Environment

KA Lynch, M McCoy… - Journal of Primary Care & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In April 2020, the Department of Veterans Affairs responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and
escalating unsheltered homelessness in Los Angeles by sanctioning a tent turned tiny …

Home‐based medical care: high‐value health care during coronavirus disease 2019 and beyond

EB Fessler, T Soriano, CR Whitehouse… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ms. H is a 78‐year‐old woman with a history of congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, and recent stroke who was discharged 1 month ago from a subacute …

Clinical redeployment of an academic family medicine department in an early, severe COVID-19 pandemic in the Bronx, NY

A Flattau, J Cristallo, M Duggan… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Board Family Med
Introduction: A severe surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 infected 33% of the
population and caused more than 7000 deaths in the Bronx, NY. The Department of Family …

The key to wanting to live in a nursing home

N Kusmaul, C Galambos, S Zimmerman - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jamda.com
A recent article in the New York Times entitled “Nobody Wants to Live in a Nursing Home.
Something's Got to Give” 1 speaks to the pervasive sentiment about nursing home care. In …

Community-based long-term care has lower COVID-19 rates and improved outcomes compared to residential settings

J Robison, N Shugrue, D Migneault, D Charles… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jamda.com
Methods This analysis used (1) Medicaid HCBS data collected by Connecticut's Department
of Social Services and (2) NH and AL data collected by its Department of Public Health. The …

Changes in US veterans' access to specialty care during the COVID-19 pandemic

KN Griffith, DA Asfaw, RG Childers… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began preparing for the COVID-19 pandemic in
January 2020 and implemented extensive measures to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 …

[PDF][PDF] Medical and mental health care challenges in nursing homes, assisted living, and programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) during COVID-19

S Zimmerman, CJ Wretman, K Ward… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
Methods There are 12 PACE programs in North Carolina, serving 37 of the 100 counties. All
NC PACE programs and NHs were eligible to participate, as were AL communities that had …

[HTML][HTML] A sanctioned encampment as a strategy for increasing homeless veterans' access to housing and healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

I Kalofonos, M McCoy, L Altman, L Gelberg… - Journal of General …, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic intersected with a housing crisis for unsheltered
Veterans experiencing homelessness (VEHs); congregate settings became high risk for viral …

[PDF][PDF] Rebuilding after COVID: planning systems of care for the future

W Newton, L Peterson, ZJ Morgan, A Bazemore… - 2020 - Am Board Family Med
As we write this editorial, the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting with a huge
impact in New York City and many other communities. As inpatient and intensive care unit …