After a year of serving as Practice Manager of West Baltimore, Alkema Jackson is moving into the new role of Director of Practice Operations, Community Sites! She joined Health Care for the Homeless in 2022 as the Client Access Project Coordinator, collaborating across departments to help more people connect to agency services, and in 2023, she received a Core Value Award for Hope. Read on to learn more about Alkema’s approach to this new position…

Meet Christana Greene, our new Director of Compliance! With more than five years in the compliance field—most recently as Senior Quality and Patient Safety Specialist at GBMC Healthcare—Chrissy brings frontline insight to the role. She began her career as a medical assistant, gaining firsthand experience in what it takes to keep care safe and operations running smoothly. In her new role, Chrissy is focused on building a compliance culture grounded in safety, integrity and accountability. Read on to learn more about Chrissy...

Baltimore gets dangerously cold, and too many of our neighbors are out there.Here are three simple things you can do to make a difference in someone’s life this winter. 

Meet Lolita Wright, a mother and caregiver. Lolita is never leaving Baltimore. She shares her parents' love of music and determination.

Spend a “Day in the life” with our Obstetric and Pediatric teams as they care for expectant and new parents, as well as children of all ages. Follow staff as they tackle insurance hurdles, coordinate referrals, connect clients to housing and food assistance and more.

Follow our Benefits Enrollment team as they help people experiencing homelessness navigate the complex systems required to sign up for health insurance. This team makes the difference between someone getting specialty care or going without.

Homelessness does not strip a person of their membership in our shared humanity, even though our systems often act as if it does.

At our annual staff holiday party, we take time to recognize and celebrate staff members who best represent our Core Values, as well as one recipient of the Von Bradshaw Award, named after Delvonia "Von" Bradshaw, who passed away in 2024 and truly held the principles of Health Care for the Homeless to heart. Please congratulate your colleagues when you see them!

Those of us in the Health Care for the Homeless community share a belief in something powerful: that everyone should have a place to call home.

Hope for that vision isn’t passive. It’s something that clients, staff and community supporters make possible together.

With SNAP benefits in Maryland facing uncertainty, many families are wondering how they’ll put food on the table. Here are ways Health Care for the Homeless is helping, as well as a list of local food assistance resources.