Outreach workers hit the streets in Boston

WCVB’s Chronicle Team interviews BHCHP physician Jessie Gaeta, MD, and Consumer Advisory Board and Board member Derek Winbush about the importance of harm reduction. 

Boston Health Care for the Homeless is a community health care provider focused exclusively on treating people experiencing homelessness. As part of the organization’s harm reduction services, they offer a supportive place for observation and treatment – or ‘S.P.O.T.’ Monitored by medical personnel, it’s a space where individuals can go for medical observation after injecting drugs. Watch more here.