Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

Founded in 1985 and operating in the black each year since, BHCHP provides care to more than 11,000 homeless people annually. BHCHP runs clinics on the campuses of Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center and also delivers comprehensive care at more than 80 family and adult shelters (including Pine Street Inn, Rosie’s Place, St. Francis House, The New England Center for Homeless Veterans) and in soup kitchens, on street corners and in the backstretch of a racetrack. In addition BHCHP operates the Barbara McInnis House at Jean Yawkey Place, a 104 bed medical respite facility for homeless adults with complex conditions like cancer, heart disease, pneumonia and diabetes who are too sick to live in shelter or on the street and would otherwise require prolonged and costly hospitalization in the acute care rooms of Boston’s hospitals.