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Health care program in Boston working to ensure homeless women get care they need

BOSTON (WHDH) – A health care program in Boston is aiming to ensure that homeless women in the area are getting the care they need...

Boston’s homeless population is falling. Some leaders question if data reflects genuine improvement.

Boston’s homeless population fell to its lowest level in more than a decade this year, according to the city’s annual census. But some leaders who work with...

Massachusetts health leaders scramble to prevent 300,000 from losing Medicaid coverage

Derek Winbush, 63, of Boston, worries about the coming work requirements. He is part of a large population of people with chronic health conditions who...

The Cost of the GOP’s Medicaid Cuts: ER Bills for States and a Spiraling Oral Health Crisis

Dentist Dr. Tara Prasad thinks a lot about the logistics of homelessness — how difficult it is to brush your teeth when you don’t have a...

In Boston, ‘street psychiatrists’ are meeting patients where they sleep

On a winter morning in downtown Boston, a psychiatrist kneltbeside a man trying to keep warm in South Station, layers of worn clothingwrapped around his...

A homeless man died in the cold outside South Station. That should never happen again.

At Monday’s funeral of Carvell Curry, a homeless man found frozen outside South Station on a brutally cold night, some mourners wondered if this could happen...

‘You are his witnesses’: At funeral for homeless man, many didn’t know him — but still came to mourn

The mourners filed slowly into the wooden pews, shedding winter jackets and scarves as they entered the warmth of the church sanctuary. They were health...