Patient engagement and care collaboration: Another wasted opportunity?
Recently, the White House announced that it has “improved Federal homeless assistance programs” by allowing communities to require housing beneficiaries to participate in supportive services such as those for addiction, mental illness, employment and offender reentry. In this post we look at the detail of the 2019 Notice of Funding Availability for Continuums of Care, which is how the policy is implemented, and consider its effect on real world practices to reduce homelessness, improve health outcomes and lower cost.