How ECM Connects Healthcare and Social Services
For most of the history of the American healthcare system, healthcare and social services have operated as two separate worlds. They have different funding streams, different regulatory frameworks, different professional cultures, and different ideas about what their job actually is. Healthcare treats the body and the mind. Social services address housing, income, food, and safety. […]
Why Housing Is Healthcare
When people think about healthcare, they think about doctors, hospitals, medications, and insurance. They think about what happens after something goes wrong with their body or their mind. Healthcare, in the way most people understand it, is a response to a problem that has already developed. What the evidence has been showing for decades, and […]