Every day more than 150,000 people in California become homeless. Being homeless is detrimental to any aspect of life: people without a decent level of life and housing die on average 20 years earlier than those who have a roof and appropriate nutrition. States are currently working to enhance the delivery of health services to the homeless via different shelters, abandon buildings, programs, and so on.
There are a variety of healthcare services in the 3 miles around the Garcia Center. It includes Texas Adult Health & Activity Center, Well Med, Open MRI of Corpus Christi, Christus Spohn Memorial Quick Care Allergy Asthma Dermatology Clinic, Adam Chiropractic & Acupuncture, and CVS pharmacy. Homeless supervision in these places is considered a compassionate, person-centered, physical, and psychological health care delivery system. However, even an impressive list of help centers does not help with an acute shortage of specialists and physical premises for a homeless shelter. The delivery of health care assistance has to be done on-site, demanding room for physicians, nurses, and others to take care of patients. In this case, abandoned houses that have been renovated via the Background Adaptive reuse program can serve as new centers.
An important topic for discussion is insurance cards and their effectiveness. The homeless in California can voluntarily qualify for free medical care. However, the government’s health insurance program Medi-Cal does not provide accurate statistics. Even those people who are technically insured could not receive proper assistance and supervision due to the imperfection of the tracking system and overloaded resources. This work is aimed at investigating the situation regarding medical care for the homeless and developing an effective insurance card scheme.