50% Of Hospital Stays For People With Documented Housing Problems Were For Mental, Behavioral & Neurodevelopmental Care

From 2017 through 2019, 50.3% of hospitalized consumers with housing problems were hospitalized for mental, behavioral, or neurodevelopmental disorders. Among hospitalized consumers without housing instability, 5.2% were hospitalized for those disorders. Overall, hospitalized patients with housing instability had 18.6 times greater odds of having a primary diagnosis of mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The next most common reasons for hospital stays in those with documented housing issues were:

• Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes: 7.3%
• Diseases of the circulatory system: 6.8%
• Certain infections and parasitic diseases . . .
  
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