Author: DPHS

Boomer Magazine – Giving Back
Ty Murray and a group of his family and friends, called Friends of Midlothian, volunteer monthly preparing and serving a meal at Daily Planet’s Safe Haven.

VIRGINIA CURRENTS
“Find out how the Daily Planet & Senior Connections are trying to help the vulnerable senior homeless population. While homelessness is decreasing across many age groups, it is experiencing a spike in the Richmond area and beyond among senior citizens.

Daily Planet marks 50 years of vital service to the community
“In 1969, concern about an epidemic of runaway and disaffected teens led to the creation of an organization offering a caring place with shelter, meals, health clinics and counseling without judgment.
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Daily Planet marks 50 years of vital service to the community

2 Richmond-based clinics will share in $3.4 million awarded to combat Virginia’s addiction crisis
RICHMOND, Va. — “Two Richmond-based health clinics are among 21 across Virginia that will share millions of dollars of federal funding to help combat the addiction crisis.

Daily Planet Health Services Uses Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) to Prevent Opioid Overdoses
“Daily Planet Heath Services in Richmond, VA, is a HRSA-funded health center and a National Committee for Quality Assurance-recognized patient-centered medical home serving anyone regardless of their ability to pay.

Community-Engaged Partnership Honored Alongside Governor
DPHS Receives Unsung Hero Innovation Award from Virginia Health Care Foundation “Daily Planet Health Services (DPHS) was awarded the Health Safety Net Innovation Award for Project IMPACT: Diabetes, a comprehensive program developed and delivered in partnership with VCU Health’s School of Pharmacy.
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Community-Engaged Partnership Honored Alongside Governor

City’s homeless population urged to seek higher ground
The pressure is on to help the Richmond area’s most vulnerable: The city’s homeless population. Crisis coordinators teamed up on Wednesday with the Richmond Police Department’s Hope Unit to urge those living on the streets to seek higher ground, and even offered some of them a ride to shelter.
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City’s homeless population urged to seek higher ground

RMHF Video: Aubrey Gholson by Field Studio
With “Richmond Health Equity: Video Portraits,” Hannah Ayers & Lance Warren (Field Studio) created video portraits of individuals and families in Richmond.

Virginia shows how Medicaid can help end the opioid crisis by German Lopez
Fawn Ricciuti started using opioids a decade ago, when she was enrolled in a New Jersey pain management program. What followed is the kind of story that’s been told thousands of times over the past few years as America’s opioid epidemic has grown: Her casual use of opioid painkillers over time turned into full-blown addiction.
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Virginia shows how Medicaid can help end the opioid crisis by German Lopez

Accessing Healthcare by Tharon Giddens
Medicaid expansion in Virginia and a new player in the ACA marketplace in metro Richmond should increase access to heath care coverage in 2019 While some questions surrounding Obamacare remain unresolved heading into 2019, more Virginians will be eligible for health care coverage courtesy of the state’s Medicaid expansion, and the ACA marketplace will have a new provider, Virginia Premier, available to metro Richmond residents.