VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless vets that could put them in mental health facilities - There are nearly ...

For more than a decade, federal policy toward veteran homelessness has taken the opposite approach.

The Trump administration will expand the power of government attorneys to initiate court proceedings for veterans “unable to make their own health care decisions.” ...

A sharp decrease in overdose deaths in L.A. County drove the first decline in homeless mortality in over a decade. Health and ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the news was welcomed by Los Angeles County supervisors and public health officials, they agreed that the mortality rate was still too high.

SPRINGFIELD — It took months of work, but the city of Springfield said it finished removing what it called a health and safety concern. Tom Gates’ family has been in the glass business for 78 years.

“Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless shelter to be offered addiction or mental health services,” Leavitt said. “And if they refuse, they ...

While street outreach programs have increased over the years, experts say Illinois must push to be proactive, not reactive, ...