Yakima Neighborhood Health Services

Supportive housing: ynhs staff provided permanent supportive housing for 275 individuals in 175 households leaving homelessness and working toward self-sufficiency. In addition, our staff provide medical recuperative care through ten recuperative units for homeless individuals who are ill/injured but not enough for hospital care, and those being hospital discharged and not well enough to return to the streets. 200 people received recuperative care (nursing, behavioral health, and case management services) from the medical respite program for a total of 2,222 bed nights. See continuation on schedule o.

Dental services: ynhs staff provided 18,000 dental visits to low-income and underserved residents of yakima county in 2024, mostly low-income adults who were uninsured or on medicaid. Ynhs provides comprehensive dental care out of four locations throughout yakima county, increasing access for uninsured and medicaid residents who have gone without dental care for many years. Last year, one in four adults seen by ynhs dental providers were uninsured. In addition, ynhs provided 2,100 dental visits to people experiencing homelessness.

Other clinic operations - various preventive family health services targeted at children of low income families.