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CEDAR RAPIDS — A collaborative of area health care providers and Linn County social service agencies is exploring the feasibility of creating a street medicine team to help deliver health care to the unhoused.

Homeless systems manager J’nae Peterman discussed the project Tuesday during a regular update for the Cedar Rapids City Council. Peterman’s position, housed at the Housing Trust Fund of Linn County, is jointly paid for by the city and Linn County.

She said the street medicine program, once operational, would deliver direct, person-centered care to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in hopes of improving health outcomes and increasing access to the broader continuum of care.

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