Samaritan House

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2010 to Jun 30, 2011

Signed

Jul 23, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$9,015,909

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Safe harbor shelter: in collaboration with san mateo county, samaritan house operates safe harbor shelter -- a 90 bed emergency and transitional homeless shelter located in south san francisco. Homeless individuals (men and women) 18 years and older and from san mateo county enter the shelter on a first-come, first-served basis. Samaritan house has provided beds for the homeless since 1987. Safe harbor shelter was created to help fill the gap in short-term emergency and transitional housing options available in san mateo county. Supportive services provided to residents include: case management, access to community services, employment counseling, mental health services, support groups (aa/na meetings), health services and health case management, transportation, hygiene supplies, food, benefit assistance, housing assistance referrals, and other services as needed. The safe harbor for health helps homeless persons improve their knowledge and use of healthy behaviors through healthcare, health awareness, advocacy, and health case management. It focuses on intensive preventive care through individual case management services. System-wide reductions in service have affected health services for low-income populations primarily through longer waiting periods. Safe harbor for health has offered intensive health case management that has helped individuals with chronic health conditions to obtain timely appointments, access primary care, and helped clients to successfully navigate their way through an impacted and complex system. 367 clients were served through safe harbor for health last year. During the year we provided 32,776 bed nights at the shelter.

Activity 3

Medical and dental services: samaritan house operates two free clinics, one at 19 w. 39th ave., san mateo, and one at 114 5th ave., redwood city. Each provides primary and specialty medical and dental services to uninsured, low-income residents. The two clinics combined employ only eight staff members, yet provide over 9,000 patient visits each year thanks to its innovative volunteer-based model of service that uses volunteer medical professionals (e.g., doctors, dentists, nurses). Patients of our clinics are the working poor. They tend to earn just enough income to be ineligible for medi-cal coverage, yet do not receive health insurance through their employers and cannot afford to pay for "out-of-pocket" health insurance. Often these residents are forced to seek treatment at local emergency rooms and become saddled with medical bills they are unable to pay. Samaritan house's free medical clinics fill this gap in healthcare access for the uninsured and save emergency room resources for emergencies.

Filer

EIN

23-7416272