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Key Achievements and Milestones 1984 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust fund 19 homeless health pilot programs across the country, including BHCHP. 1985 BHCHP begins providing comprehensive primary care and dental services at multiple hospital and homeless sites, including a 25-bed medical respite unit for adults at the Shattuck Shelter. 1987 BHCHP creates the country's first multidisciplinary HIV Team caring for homeless persons. 1988 BHCHP is designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center and a 501(c)(3). FQHC status enables BHCHP to become the first Health Care for the Homeless project in the nation approved to receive reimbursement for services from Medicaid and Medicare in 1990. 1992 BHCHP opens its clinic at Suffolk Downs Thoroughbred Racetrack, serving the needs of more than 500 homeless and migrant backstretch workers who live in the stables and barns. 1993 BHCHP purchases a former nursing home in Jamaica Plain and moves its medical respite unit to the 52-bed Barbara McInnis House. The first facility of its kind in the country, the Barbara McInnis House faces unrelenting demand, leading to an expansion to 72 beds in 1996 and to 90 beds in 2003. 1994 BHCHP responds to the growing number of deaths on the streets by creating a dedicated Street Team, extending health services to people who avoid shelter and hospital clinics. 1995 BHCHP creates a Mental Health Team to address the growing need for mental health services. This team's services quickly become an indispensable aspect of the care provided at virtually every BHCHP site. 1996 BHCHP, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital, implements the nation's first electronic medical record for a homeless program. 2003 With increased federal grant support, BHCHP dramatically expands its outpatient primary care services, assuming responsibility for the clinics at three of Boston's largest homeless shelters: Pine Street Inn, Long Island Shelter, and Woods-Mullen Shelter. 2004 BHCHP publishes the 350-page Manual of Communicable Diseases and Common Problems in Shelters and on the Streets, a widely used resource on homeless healthcare. 2005 BHCHP passes its 20th anniversary and its 20th consecutive year of financial stability. 2006 A proposed new building to anchor BHCHP's decentralized services moves toward reality with a groundbreaking in the fall. A complete renovation of Boston's Mallory Institute of Pathology will follow. The new facility will allow for program expansion and will promote the integration of services. A comprehensive medical and bahavioral health clinic begins treating patients at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans
2008 With the generous support of Massachusetts General Hospital, BHCHP expands psychiatric services in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Mental health. The new facility, Jean Yawkey Place, opens providing core services including an enlarged Barbara McInnis House (104 beds), primary care clinic, dental clinic, pharmacy and all administrative functions. Capital Campaign fundraising is honored in September by a $2 million challenge grant fom the natonally renowned Kresge Foundation.
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