L.A. County Housing for Health offers needed intensive care, and hope, for formerly homeless Angelenos.
had just met with a critically ill patient in his apartment — a 58-year-old man who was hospitalized four times in six weeks — and now she was in the lobby of the building.
Her goal is not to help them simply survive, but to thrive, and also to provide street medicine to those not yet housed. It’s difficult, labor-intensive work involving an army of field workers at dozens of public and nonprofit agencies.Column: He was homeless and in hospice.
It gave me a chance to get to know Harmon, who grew up in Ecuador. We sat in the community room at Miguel’s building and she told me she was a computer engineer until a middle-age career shift inspired by her daughter, who worked as a nurse and shared stories of her challenging but gratifying work. Fuentes got a job at a pizza parlor and rented a room in a house. But cervical cancer, first diagnosed in Honduras, flared. She lost the job and couldn’t afford the room, but she said she and the kids kept sleeping there, slipping in and out when the landlord was away.
Harmon went over Fuentes’ latest symptoms and dug through a satchel of pill containers, reminding her about dosages and upcoming medical appointments. When we left, Fuentes asked us to please return any time.A week later, Behforouz and one of her nurses, Jonah Malana — along with Housing Works case manager Jasmine Salas — met me at the home of a patient named Micaela Duarte, who lives with her son.
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