Northern Califonia hospitals secure $3 million grant for street medicine training

A powerful new grant is expected to expand access and health care to some of Northern California's most vulnerable populations, including the homeless. The plan is to embed street medicine training directly into residency programs across multiple hospitals.

The Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation in Grass Valley collaborated with St. Joseph's Foundation of San Joaquin, the Mercy Medical Center Merced Foundation, and the Dominican Hospital Foundation in Santa Cruz to secure a $3 million grant to implement street medicine training into residency programs.

"The idea of street medicine is bringing health care services to people either on the street or, sometimes, it's going to a rural area where folks aren't completely homeless but unstably housed or don't have good transportation," s