Health Affairs July, 2019
ABSTRACT
In Portland, Oregon, health care networks are helping expand access to stable housing and supportive services.
Patient support: Peer support specialist Lisa Greenfield (left), community outreach coordinator Gary Cobb, and Central City Concern CEO Rachel Solotaroff have seen Portland health systems invest significant sums in affordable housing in the hope of keeping patients stable, housed, and healthy.
Lisa Greenfield’s father and uncle were heroin addicts. Her dad committed suicide in 2011. She succumbed to substance abuse and for years lived on and around the streets of Portland, Oregon. She became estranged from the family she loved—her mother and the younger siblings she once looked out for. She twice attended rehab programs. Both times, she relapsed immediately after returning to...
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