In the ED, our Community Health Workers and Peer Recovery Specialists serve as an important bridge between the hospital and the community. They are uniquely positioned and equipped to assist our most marginalized and at-risk patient populations in improving their health and well-being.

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Street Medicine is the practice of bringing quality healthcare out of clinics/hospitals and into the community, meeting people where they are—streets, parks, encampments, under bridges, etc.  Street Medicine is a means of both delivering much-needed acute care as well as facilitating trust-building and healing between the medical community and people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness, thus creating the opportunity for engagement with comprehensive, longitudinal care. Accessible and compassionate medical care has the power to restore dignity to this marginalized population that often feels abandoned by both society and the health care system. The Street Medicine team includes physicians, nurses, APPs, residents, and medical students across a variety of specialties including Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Addiction Medicine. We work in close collaboration with local community organizations who provide non-medical street-based outreach services such as case management, harm reduction, and basic needs provision.

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