Street medicine program helps people without housing, but funding cuts loom

On a Wednesday morning in downtown Denver in the blazing July sun, members of STRIDE Community Health Center’s street medicine team offered bottles of water, snacks, sunscreen and medical care to people experiencing homelessness.

Federal fallout As federal funding and systems dwindle, states are left to decide how and whether to make up the difference.

One person had a head injury, so the team helped him clean the wound and bandage it up…

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