Current Project Description

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES


Recuperative Care Demonstration Project


Brief Description It is estimated that last year in Los Angeles County nearly 1,000 homeless patients ready for discharge from private hospitals to recuperative care were kept up to four extra days in a hospital inpatient setting because no recuperative care beds were available. Currently, there are only 45 recuperative care beds in Los Angeles County. Clearly, more recuperative care beds are needed to provide homeless patients with post-hospital medical care, case management, and transition into temporary and/or permanent housing. A coalition of interested parties including the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), Kaiser Permanente, the County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services, JWCH, Inc, LA Health Action, Neighborhood Legal Services, and the National Health Foundation has come together to find ways to expand recuperative care capacity. Their solution is a proposed two year partnership between the county, private hospitals and the philanthropic sector to fund an additional 45 recuperative care beds; thereby doubling current capacity. The proposed demonstration project will assess whether an innovative fiscal approach combining foundation dollars with private hospital funding and supplemented by support from businesses and industry, can provide the additional recuperative care beds needed to serve homeless patients discharged from hospitals in Los Angeles County. Forms: Recuperative Care Program Guidelines Preliminary 1-Page Referral Form

Brief Description

It is estimated that last year in Los Angeles County nearly 1,000 homeless patients ready for discharge from private hospitals to recuperative care were kept up to four extra days in a hospital inpatient setting because no recuperative care beds were available. Currently, there are only 45 recuperative care beds in Los Angeles County. Clearly, more recuperative care beds are needed to provide homeless patients with post-hospital medical care, case management, and transition into temporary and/or permanent housing.

A coalition of interested parties including the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC), Kaiser Permanente, the County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services, JWCH, Inc, LA Health Action, Neighborhood Legal Services, and the National Health Foundation has come together to find ways to expand recuperative care capacity. Their solution is a proposed two year partnership between the county, private hospitals and the philanthropic sector to fund an additional 45 recuperative care beds; thereby doubling current capacity. The proposed demonstration project will assess whether an innovative fiscal approach combining foundation dollars with private hospital funding and supplemented by support from businesses and industry, can provide the additional recuperative care beds needed to serve homeless patients discharged from hospitals in Los Angeles County.

Forms: