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Kaiser Permanente has launched Project Home, a $2 million initiative in the Sacramento, CA, area that provides housing for patients experiencing homelessness.
Through the program, care teams at Kaiser Permanente identify patients in its Sacramento County emergency departments experiencing homelessness, screen them and refer them to Sacramento Covered. The nonprofit housing organization operates Project Home to address housing, social services and medical care coordination.
“Part of our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve,” said Brandon Pace, Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center. “We feel an obligation to help, so people don’t need emergency room services as often. And if we don’t also address their housing needs, their medical conditions will deteriorate.”
The partnership with Sacramento Covered is part of a greater effort that includes Los Angeles and Salem, OR.
“Kaiser Permanente believes that housing is health and a secure and stable place to live is key to a person’s ability to thrive,” said Vanessa Davis, Housing for Health Program Lead at the company. “We are getting medically vulnerable people connected to vital housing and social supports.”
Read more at about.kaiserpermanente.org.
