Central Health will open next week a newly transferred facility and clinic that will provide temporary housing and medical care for homeless patients.
Central Health will open its new position for the consumer next Monday, July 28. The center is located in the clinical education facility, or CEC, which was previously the Children’s Hospital in Austin. Medical care provides temporary housing and medical care for people who have no shelter and who suffer from acute or chronic medical conditions, but they do not need hospital.
Central health has invested 11 million dollars to renew and transfer the first floor of CEC to a rest facility from 48 beds for patients who are medically vulnerable without stable housing, According to its website.
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Central Health Center at the Clinical Education Center (KXAN/Frank Martinez) -
Central Health Center at the Clinical Education Center (KXAN/Frank Martinez) -
Central Health Center at the Clinical Education Center (KXAN/Frank Martinez) -
Central Health Center at the Clinical Education Center (KXAN/Frank Martinez)
The project renewed a current facility and “treating a critical gap” in the treatment of people who suffer from displacement who recover from the disease or infection, at the health center.
The features of the new center include:
- From four to six people with separate spaces for men, women, neutral residence, and isolation of infectious diseases;
- Access to behavioral health services;
- Common bathing, toilets, dining area, halls, computer stations, and activity spaces; and,
- The model focuses on short -term care and long -term solutions.
Dr. Bat Lee, President of the Central Health Company, Dr. Bat Lee, on Central Health, wrote that the goal is to “give individuals space, time and stability, and not just medical services.”