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The Reentry Health Care Hub: Creating a California-Based Referral System to Link Chronically Ill People Leaving Prison to Primary Care

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  • Bethany Divakaran

    (San Francisco Public Health Foundation Project, Transitions Clinic Network, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)

  • Natania Bloch

    (San Francisco Public Health Foundation Project, Transitions Clinic Network, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)

  • Mahima Sinha

    (School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA)

  • Anna Steiner

    (San Francisco Public Health Foundation Project, Transitions Clinic Network, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA)

  • Shira Shavit

    (San Francisco Public Health Foundation Project, Transitions Clinic Network, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
    School of Community Family Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)

Abstract

People released from prison experience high health needs and face barriers to health care in the community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people released early from California state prisons to under-resourced communities. Historically, there has been minimal care coordination between prisons and community primary care. The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN), a community-based non-profit organization, supports a network of California primary care clinics in adopting an evidence-based model of care for returning community members. In 2020, TCN linked the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and 21 TCN-affiliated clinics to create the Reentry Health Care Hub, supporting patient linkages to care post-release. From April 2020–August 2022, the Hub received 8420 referrals from CDCR to facilitate linkages to clinics offering medical, behavioral health, and substance use disorder services, as well as community health workers with histories of incarceration. This program description identifies care continuity components critical for reentry, including data sharing between carceral and community health systems, time and patient access for pre-release care planning, and investments in primary care resources. This collaboration is a model for other states, especially after the Medicaid Reentry Act and amid initiatives to improve care continuity for returning community members, like California‘s Medicaid waiver (CalAIM).

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  • Bethany Divakaran & Natania Bloch & Mahima Sinha & Anna Steiner & Shira Shavit, 2023. "The Reentry Health Care Hub: Creating a California-Based Referral System to Link Chronically Ill People Leaving Prison to Primary Care," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(10), pages 1-17, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:10:p:5806-:d:1145637
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    1. Wang, E.A. & Hong, C.S. & Shavit, S. & Sanders, R. & Kessell, E. & Kushel, M.B., 2012. "Engaging individuals recently released from prison into primary care: A randomized trial," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(9), pages 22-29.
    2. Williams, B.A. & Stern, M.F. & Mellow, J. & Safer, M. & Greifinger, R.B., 2012. "Aging in correctional custody: Setting a policy agenda for older prisoner health care," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(8), pages 1475-1481.
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