Caring for the city’s most vulnerable

While many medical schools have hospital beds and emergency rooms, our faculty and students also tend to patients where they find them—in alleyways, on park benches, near heating grates. Every year, we care for hundreds of people who have landed on the streets. The Outreach Van Project, founded in 1997, rolls through Boston on a regular basis, offering people experiencing homelessness warm clothes, food, toiletries and medicine. The team, which comprises students and faculty, a physician and a social worker, identifies any health issues and provides care and referrals for medical follow-up and shelters. Our faculty also assist in helping the homeless obtain permanent housing. Further, we provide inpatient and outpatient care on campus for people referred through the Boston Health Care for the Homeless program.

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