Sources briefed on the plan said the city plans to use a facility at 2100 W. Girard Ave. on a state-owned campus that recently housed a nursing home and a men’s homeless shelter.
The Philadelphia Nursing Home at 2100 W. Girard Ave. on May 20, 2020. Sources have told The Inquirer that this site, which closed in 2022, will be repurposed as a triage center for people with addiction.Philadelphia city workers and addiction service providers are working to open a triage center in Fairmount where people living on the street can seek services, a move that comes days before authorities plan to clear a homeless encampment in Kensington.
The move comes amid months of intense deliberations in City Hall about how to establish triage centers to potentially absorb hundreds of people with addiction living on the streets in Kensington as Parker moves on her promise to end the neighborhood’s entrenched open-air drug market.
While some operational details remain hazy, sources said the facility is a low-barrier shelter that could hold dozens of patients. They said it would be staffed by employees of Project HOME and Prevention Point — two nonprofits that offer outreach and housing to unhoused people and provide a number of public health services for people in addiction, respectively. Both organizations already hold contracts with the city.
One source said wound care would be offered on site to treat skin damage caused by xylazine, or “tranq,” an animal tranquilizer that has been added to most of the illicit fentanyl in Philadelphia. Tranq causes serious lesions that are slow to heal and can become infected. Wound care has emerged as one of the largest barriers for people struggling in addiction, as many long-term rehabs will not accept patients with untreated sores.
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