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Opinion: City’s Homeless Count Misses a Critical Population—Unhoused New Yorkers in Hospitals

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  • Homeless New Yorker
    Posted February 3, 2023 at 12:00 am

    It’s true that homeless folks in hospitals, both in beds and in waiting room chairs, should be counted. It’s true that hospitals and clinics shouldn’t be too shy to ask patients how they live. But, when DHS and its contractors have full access to DHS CARES and HRA WMS systems, most clients have no clue what information is in them, and how much of it, if any, is true. At the minimum, clients should be given read-only online access to their own files. Then they can download and send hospitals whatever they need. Giving HHC and private hospitals full access to patients’ DHS records, when patients have none, will only increase surveillance-culture dysfunction and distrust.

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