UCLA Health receives $25.3 million for street medicine program caring for homeless
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The UCLA Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative has received a $25.3 million, two-year state grant to expand access and enhance coordination of medical and behavioral health care provided to people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles.
The grant will fund new equipment and staff, including community health workers to assess patient needs, identify barriers to care and expand access to a variety of services in collaboration with other caregivers, social service agencies, health plans and the state.
Read the full UCLA press release.
The UCLA Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative – made possible by philanthropic support –launched in early 2022 with two specially equipped mobile health vans traveling to encampments, shelters and other locations to provide free preventive, primary and urgent medical care, medical screenings and referrals to social services. Last year, the mobile vans recorded 6,000 encounters with unhoused patients and provided medications more than 1,500 times.
Four additional vans will be deployed soon, thanks to a $592,000 grant from a federal community projects funding program, sponsored by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-CA.
The CTSI Grants Submission Unit assisted the grant by helping discern specific HRSA requirements with Mike Altschule on behlaf of Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson.
