At Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, we recognize the unique healthcare needs of homeless individuals and are committed to providing compassionate care that promotes their overall well-being and helps restore stability in their lives.
Street medicine ensures health equity through access to quality medical care for Greater New Haven and Lower Naugatuck Valley’s unreached houseless population.
Through direct and regular medical outreach, our doctors, APRNs, and physician assistants provide direct medical care in the streets, shelters, encampments, soup kitchens, and drop-in centers. The Street Medicine team bridges the gaps and barriers the houseless experience in receiving medical care through traditional means. The team’s success is driven by care over a continuum that starts by building relationships and offering companionship and respect. In doing so, we meet the patient where they are to address their unique psychosocial and health care needs.
Examples of the care provided in street medicine include but are not limited to treatment for urgent and primary care needs, harm reduction counseling and medication assisted treatment for addiction, PREP initiation, and HIV and Hep C treatment.
Additionally, our street medicine team collaborates internally with our clinical sites and externally with other medical, behavioral health, addiction, and social service programs, meeting our patients where they are.
Our team goes out in the community typically with a core team of three, a medical case manager, a medical assistant or a nurse, and an advanced practice prescriber or MD. Our team also frequently includes volunteers, many with lived experience, many with medical experience. Our focus is the medical needs of our patients, and our mantra is to not compete with social service agencies but collaborate and support them as partners. Though our team does not do housing, legal services, support in food or shelter, we collaborate with the organizations that do and advocate for our patients through communication with our partners.
We will help people with vital documents and navigating them through the social service system in prep for meeting with housing case manager. The navigator can start the process for them.
Once you are assigned a housing case manager by the 211 system, our team can support you in completing applicable medical documentation if you have engaged with us for your medical care.
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center stands out for several reasons:
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8. Homeless Memorial Service: every year on or around December 21 we collaborate with The Trinity Church on the Green to remember those living on the street who have passed throughout the year.
9. Overdose Awareness Day
10. Our Maundy Podiatry Clinic (Thursday before Easter), which is a one day podiatry clinic dedicated to the homeless community population.
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Anyone and everyone. No matter who you are, you can seek help for your healthcare needs with us.
Call the main number 203-503-3000 or visit one of our locations.
No, we are not a free clinic. We provide healthcare services for a fee. However, because we are a Federally Qualified Health Center, we are able to offer reduced rates to people without insurance as long as they qualify based on income and family size.
Costs will vary based on your specific situation. We accept all insurance including Medicare, Medicaid (Title 19), HUSKY, Charter Oak, and most commercial insurance plans. For anyone without health insurance, we offer services on a sliding-fee scale, which means you pay only what you can. We also can provide assistance with access to State support and services.
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Release of information requests are processed by Ramona Fain and Francheska Cantey. Francheska handles all patients that falls between A-M and Ramona N-Z. Ramona can be reached at 203-503-3140 and Francheska at 203-503-3236.
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