NATIONAL HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS

The national institute for medical respite care (nimrc) is a special program of the council created to help expand and advance medical respite care. In the past year, the council has helped more than 33 medical respite programs get started, expand services, or improve operations through training, technical assistance, and conducting learning communities. We also provided input to several state governments that are in various stages of including medical respite as a benefit in their state medicaid plan. We were privileged to disburse more than $8m to support medical respite programs since the launch of nimrc in july 2020. In may 2024, nimrc announced the development of a certification for medical respite programs. Nimrc has designed a voluntary certification process built on robust stakeholder input and a nationally recognized framework for medical respite care programs.