Outcomes from Housing High-Cost Homeless Hospital Patients – Slides

Oral presentation by Daniel Flaming discusses how the most expensive 10% of homeless persons account for 56% of all public and hospital costs for homeless adults. The triage tools to identify high-cost (and high-need) homeless patients including those with mental illness, injury, or recently released from incarceration. The model does not flag people diagnosed with conditions that are highly likely to move them into the 10th decile”

Los Angeles County Project Engage and Navigation Program: Link, Engage and Re-engage HIV+ Persons Not in Care – Slides

Amy Rock Wohl Need for novel approaches for identifying, engaging, re- engaging and retaining HIV-infected persons in care: Project Engage (PE) uses respondent-driven sampling, direct recruitment and incentives to identify and link to care marginalized HIV+ out of care (OOC) persons. The Navigation Program uses enhanced public health investigation (PHI) methods and modified ARTAS to re- engage OOC clinic patients.