Supportive Housing As Key To HCBS—The Institute For Community Living Model

When executives of provider organization discuss the importance of services that help people remain in the community and out of the hospital, programs like home- and community-based services (HCBS), more times than not the conversation hinges on one critical matter – housing. The reason is clear. People with housing insecurity are simply much more likely to use significant amounts of health care resources, often in frequent hospitalizations (see The Blending & Braiding Of Housing & Health Care Funding). In these cases, people are not benefiting from coordinated and consistent health care and instead make much greater use of care in . . .