Health + Housing Coalition Launches Nebraska’s First-Ever Medical Respite Program

On November 1, 2022, Charles Drew Health Center, Inc. and Siena Francis House, under a contract with CHI Health, launched “Health and Dwelling,” a 24-month pilot medical respite program in the Greater Omaha-Council Bluffs area of Nebraska. This is the first medical respite program in Nebraska. The program will provide five short-term housing and post-acute recovery beds and medical support to people experiencing homelessness following a hospital discharge. The program provides a transition of care from an acute care facility to medical respite, serving as an alternative to readmission to hospitals for minor ailments that do . . .