Curtis Durose who ended up homeless said his future looks brighter thanks to the support from a homeless health nurse.

Berkeley declares health emergency as leptospirosis outbreak forces homeless encampment evacuations. Multiple rats and dogs ...

The city is proposing three locations for its permanent homeless shelter.

An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with ...

Executive order builds off Kotek’s first homelessness emergency order signed in 2023 Gov. Tina Kotek is extending the state ...

The Kauffman Foundation recently gave its first “Uncommon Leader” award, along with a $150,000 prize, to a nurse practitioner ...

GO TO KOAT.COM. A NEW STUDY FROM THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHOWS HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE A HIGHER RISK OF GETTING SICK OR DYING FROM PREVENTABLE DISEASES AND INJURIES. THIS STUDY, FROM 2019 TO ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTNH) — Hundreds of health care professionals all gathered in Bridgeport Tuesday to talk about how best to serve the toughest patients: people without a home. It was the annual ...

More than 4,500 of the homeless individuals identified in the 2024 Point-In-Time count experienced mental illness, officials ...

Housing—and the lack of access to it—has long been recognized as a critical social determinant of health. The outstanding question for health care leaders is not whether health systems have a role to ...

Homelessness is driven by structural factors like affordable housing shortages and income inequality, with individual vulnerabilities increasing personal risk. Health issues are both a cause and ...

Homelessness — and affordability and housing availability — is among the many concerns voters will ask candidates to address ...