Circle the City, a nonprofit which provides healthcare to the unhoused, opened a new medical respite center in the East Valley on Friday.
The 85-bed center offers 24/7 medical care. Circle the City operates two additional respite centers in Phoenix.
Sister Adele O’Sullivan is the founder of Circle the City. “In the East Valley, there are hundreds, thousands — actually — of acute care beds,” O’Sullivan said.
“But there was not one bed where a person could go in the East Valley if they needed more care if they are unhoused,” she said.
The facility is located in east Mesa — a city that has seen a big uptick in its homeless population in recent years, according to Circle the City.
Right now if a person is discharged from a hospital without a place to go, they might end up back on the streets, and eventually the emergency room…