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From the U.S. Deparment of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
Nominations for the 2024 CMS Health Equity Award are now open to organizations working to advance health equity, showing others how to reduce disparities in health care access...
From the Memphis Housing Authority's website:
It’s not easy to see a doctor. If you try to book an appointment with a new doctor, you’ll have to wait an average of 26 days until your appointment. To speed up the process, you may look into an urgent care facility. The few we have in Memphis...
In a recent report released by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, “Housing America’s Older Adults 2023," researchers delve into the critical issues surrounding the increasing population of older adults in the United States. The report reveals that the number of older adults, defined as...
Accelerator Will Help Implement Innovative Housing-related Supports and Services for Medicaid Recipients
On Friday, February 9, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the communities that will be...
This month, HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI) newsletter focused their spotlight on the Housing Authority of Kansas City's Sam Rodgers Place and discussed how HAKC and Kansas City successfully developed and implemented a comprehensive Choice Neighborhoods housing plan that responded...
From Health Affairs:
This article presents early findings on the causal effects of a housing voucher on family stress, which plays an important role in children’s healthy development. Using the Housing and Children’s Healthy Development study, which is the only randomized controlled...
Opportunity Home San Antonio Affiliate Secures Grant for Development Near South Texas Medical Center
From Opportunity Home San Antonio's press release:
The San Antonio Housing Facility Corporation, an Opportunity Home affiliate, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, a fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, to ensure completion of the Snowden Senior...
From The Denverite:
The Denver Housing Authority is looking into new ways to increase the city’s housing stock. Its new apartment complex takes advantage of one option that’s been on the minds of Denverites: office-space conversions.
DHA announced last week that they renovated a former medical...