Healthcare for the Homeless
Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore, Maryland, focuses on providing comprehensive healthcare services to individuals experiencing homelessness. Established in 1825, it stands out with its multiple fixed sites and a mobile clinic serving approximately 10,000 patients per year.
Their mission is to prevent and end homelessness by offering quality, integrated healthcare and promoting access to affordable housing and sustainable incomes through direct service, advocacy, and community engagement.
- Operates a mobile clinic that brings essential services to various Baltimore locations.
- Offers extended hours, including Saturday appointments, to accommodate patient needs.
- Utilizes a Patient-Centered Medical Home model for comprehensive and continuous care.
- Provides a range of services, including primary care, dental, behavioral health, and occupational therapy.
Specializes in treating mental health and addiction issues, serving 10,000 patients annually across diverse demographics, focusing on those experiencing homelessness.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 2 Conditions Treated
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English, Spanish
- 19 Therapies & Programs
Accreditations
JCAHO
Conditions and Issues Treated
Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment
Substance abuse is the excessive use of any type of drug. This includes alcohol, medications and illegal drugs. Substance abuse is treated with a combination of physical and mental treatments. Healthcare for the Homeless patients detox and follow up with therapies that target the underlying cause of the addiction.
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Opioid addiction is one of Maryland‘s most prominent forms of addiction. Drugs, including heroin, oxycontin, and fentanyl, are the most common. To relieve pain, or ease other ailments, they are professionally prescribed, but they are often abused because they and the feelings they give are addictive.
Addiction is treated by detoxifying the body, so the medications’ chemicals are no longer impacting the individual. Healthcare for the Homeless offers therapies to correct behavior and target the root of the problem are supplemented during and throughout treatment.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Intensive Outpatient, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
Intensive outpatient programs mostly conduct meetings on weekdays. Group therapy is the main element in most intensive outpatient programs. Most IOPs last for about 90 days and include drug use monitoring and testing. A Maryland IOP, like what’s offerd at Healthcare for the Homeless, take much more time than a standard outpatient program. Some programs offer other services as well, such as employment assistance and medication management.
Outpatient rehabilitation is a treatment that exists if a patient is not checking into Healthcare for the Homeless long term. In addition to helping them recover, the patient attends regular therapy sessions and detox and participates in other therapies. However, this is all primarily done from home. As a follow-up to inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment is usually recommended.
After rehabilitation, it helps people return to their everyday lives. It may also be an alternative to inpatient care in some situations. If they cannot leave their jobs, children, or don’t have the money for inpatient care, people can choose this method. Inpatient therapy, however, is the best method and most suggested level of treatment offered by Healthcare for the Homeless in recovering from addiction.
Healthcare for the Homeless‘s Therapies & Programs
Group Therapy is a type of counseling that occurs between a bunch of strangers. These groups are suitable for patients who are not confined in a treatment facility, but group sessions are also common in inpatient rehab programs. Group therapy is led by a trained individual at Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore, MD and consists of members from different stages of recovery.
The goal of group therapy sessions is to foster hope and a sense of belonging, share information, and learn coping mechanisms. It also helps to have people who can relate to what you’re going through. Good behaviors can also be contagious, and participants can learn from one another.
Unresolved trauma is often a key reason why many patients resorted to substance abuse. Trauma could be physical abuse, sexual abuse, war, natural disasters, divorce, accident, loss of a loved one, etc. If trauma is the primary cause of substance abuse, then both issues must be addressed.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an improved version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) DBT is a treatment of choice for people being treated at Healthcare for the Homeless whom are suffering from self-harming behaviors. Conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder also benefit from DBT.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an approach and method in psychotherapy. Healthcare for the Homeless asks people to investigate how their thoughts, including habitual, negative, and inaccurate ways of thinking affect behaviors. CBT is based on the idea that rigid, inflexible ways of thinking cause people to have a limited ability to cope with stress
Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a method of specific counseling that replaces negative and self-limiting thoughts with positive and productive behaviors. Self-defeating thoughts and habits can limit your possible successes. Some examples of this are procrastination, unhealthy eating and angry outbursts. You may not be aware that some unhealthy behaviors and thoughts are sabotaging your potential accomplishments.
Some people refer to contingency management, or CM, as motivational incentives. This type of therapy is a reconditioning of the mind and responses of the body. The point of CM is to help the body understand the proper responses to behaviors should be, as well as the effects that come with both problematic and desired behaviors. The more positive choices a person makes, the more incentives they will receive, all managed with sobriety goals by Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore, MD.
Payment Options
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Location & Contact
421 Fallsway
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone Number
(410) 837-5533
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Location
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421 Fallsway
Baltimore, MD 21202 -
(410) 837-5533
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+)
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ModalityGroup, Individuals
Ownership
Listed May 26, 2020
Updated July 25, 2024
Baltimore, Maryland Addiction and Treatment
For the past decade, Maryland's rate of drug use and abuse has significantly increased. The overdose rate is currently higher than the national average. This epidemic is due to the many industries where manual labor is required. As soon as prescription opioids were more readily accessible a large part of manual workers started using–and eventually abusing–the painkillers.
Baltimore, a historic seaport city in Maryland, offers a variety of attractions such as the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, and numerous parks and trails. The city also boasts a thriving arts scene with museums, orchestras, and festivals showcasing local talent. In 2021, opioid overdoses in Baltimore County decreased by 15% from the previous year. However, fentanyl was involved in 973 of the 1,079 drug and alcohol-related intoxication deaths in Baltimore City during that same year.
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