A representative with Rafael Construction, along with Las Vegas public works director Rosa Cortez, Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley, City Councilwoman Shondra Summers-Armstrong and Las Vegas Neighborhood Service Director Arcelia Barajas break ground on its Recuperative Care Center, which offers medical respite for unhoused people. (Photo: Michael Lyle/Nevada Current)
If people experiencing homelessness don’t have a place to go while recovering from an illness or after medical treatment, more often than not it will lead to wounds that never heal or them reentering a costly cycle of emergency room visits, said Arcelia Barajas, the Neighborhood Services Director with the City of Las Vegas.
That is if they receive medical treatment in the first place…