STAT March 23, 2023
After 40 years at the helm of nonprofit Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Jim O’Connell likes to remind himself — and his colleagues — that they’re not saving the world.
Yes, the program has a longtime reputation for building bridges between unhoused people and clinicians at Mass General, building sufficient trust to convince “rough sleepers” to be treated in the streets or visit the hospital. But they’re not even close to ending the crisis.
He and other clinicians at the nonprofit have a “small little mission in the world,” said O’Connell, the founding physician of the program and a member of the second annual STATUS List. ”It’s not solving homelessness, but it’s caring, as best we can, for...
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