Los Angeles City Council says there’s an urgent need for more medical services at city’s interim homeless shelters.
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday, May 9, to approve a report calling for the appropriation of funding, staffing and other resources to expand “street medicine” teams and services at all city-funded interim housing shelters.
The council directed its city administrative officer to report back within 30 days with recommendations that would increase the teams andThe council also directed its chief legislative analyst to seek state and federal grants and potential agreements with the county of Los Angeles’ departments of mental health and health service as possible funding sources.
Councilwoman Nithya Raman introduced a motion in early April seeking to invest in the city’s street medicine services. According to the motion, the city had, expanding it in February from one to three teams that serve Council Districts 1, 4, 8, 9, 13 and 14. The motion cited an urgent need to provide more on-site medicine services at interim shelters, many of which are“Recent surveys and studies indicate that 40% to 67% of homeless Angelenos have either a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder, while over 20% have a physical disability,” the motion says.
The teams provide services such as general medical care, preventive care, wound care, behavioral health services such as counseling, therapy and medication treatment, addiction recovery services, and medical care management by coordinating specialist visits, medication delivery and health insurance enrollment.
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