EP74: Housing Insecurity

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

We speak with Kelly Bruno, MSW, president and CEO of National Health Foundation in Los Angeles, Calif. Bruno helped to create recuperative care program in response to hospitals’ illegal practice of patient dumping — the failure to make continued care arrangements when releasing homeless patients from the hospital.

Posted July 27, 2021

Read a transcript of episode 74

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