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Icky, yucky flu!
09.22.16
Yucky, icky flu.
Just how yucky and icky, you ask? Consider this:
- Influenza (the flu) is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 27,000 people die from it every year.
- The flu is responsible for an estimated 111 million missed work days every year.
- On average, it takes 40 people getting a flu shot to prevent one person from getting sick with the flu. If everyone at Health Care for the Homeless were to get the vaccine, we would help prevent at least six of our coworkers from getting sick!
Stay out of the hospital, save your PTO for a much-needed vacation and do your part to protect yourself, your loved ones, our colleagues and our clients—some of which are at much higher risk of severe complications from the flu than others. Get a flu shot at one of the upcoming Health Care for the Homeless flu clinics. Clinics are scheduled for the following dates at 421 Fallsway in the medical department (unless otherwise noted):
- Thursday, Sept. 22: 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
- Friday, Sept. 23: 3-4 p.m.
- Wednesday, Sept. 28: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Thursday, Sept. 29 (1st Floor Group Room): 3-4 p.m.
- Wednesday, Oct. 5: 12-1 p.m.
- Friday, Oct. 7: 12-1 p.m.
More Recent News
11.15.24
More than a quarter of all client visits to Health Care for the Homeless are with case managers. Presented below is one day in the life of Case Management Coordinator Adrienne Burgess-Bromley, who has been with the agency for 16 years.
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10.30.24
Baltimore, you are rockstars! On the sunny first Saturday of November, 300+ runners, walkers, friends and volunteers took over Patterson Park for the 10th Annual Rock Your Socks 5K! We danced, cheered and enjoyed a festive race village complete with coffee, bagels, donuts, a bounce house and easy ways to engage with community partners.
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10.29.24
Since opening Sojourner Place at Oliver in 2022, our affordable housing development team has been busy laying the groundwork for more affordable housing in Baltimore through a newly formed subsidiary under Health Care for the Homeless called the HCH Real Estate Company.
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