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Author(s): Alice Broughton
Publication Date: 2009
In 2001, I accepted a job at Sherbourne Health Centre, which was a new health centre in the east side of downtown Toronto.
The ‘infirmary’ is a 20 bed program, open 24 hour/day, for homeless and marginally housed persons who have an acute medical condition and have no place to go to adequately recover. It is staffed by nurses, community health workers, a nurse practitioner, case manager, and consulting physicians. Back in 1999, many community age...