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Improving a Sanctioned Homeless Encampment for Veterans During COVID-19 Through Multilevel Partnerships
Matthew McCoy1, Ippolytos Kalofonos1, Lisa Altman1
1Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy, Health Services Research & Development (McCoy, Kalofonos, Altman, Gelberg, Lynch, Clair, Nazinyan, Gabrielian), Office of Healthcare Transformation and Innovation (Altman, Gelberg, Capone-Newton), Community Engagement and Reintegration Service (Santini, Daugharty), and Mental Health Intensive Case Management (DeFraites), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)-VA Center of Excellence for Training and Research in Veteran Resilience and Recovery, Los Angeles (McCoy, Kalofonos, Clair, Nazinyan, Gabrielian); AltaMed Health Services, Los Angeles (Lynch); VA New Mexico Healthcare System, Albuquerque, New Mexico (McGahran); Departments of Preventive Medicine (Capone-Newton) and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (DeFraites), David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Abstract:
A veteran-clinician-researcher partnership-the Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Service (CTRS)-enabled quality improvement within a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-sanctioned homeless encampment created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the differing concerns of clinicians and operational leaders led to challenges in defining CTRS's goals and quality metrics, partnering with frontline social work and peer staff (N=11) and veterans (N=21 of 381 CTRS participants) and considering their feedback resolved those differences. Multilevel partnerships improved care within the encampment, leading to the development of an encampment medicine team (providing onsite integrated health care) and a veteran engagement committee (providing feedback).
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