HOPE Recuperative Care Center offers exactly that – hope and care

At the end of a quiet and unassuming neighborhood street in Pontiac, Michigan, a red-brick church stands forlorn. No sign indicates whether the tired building continues to hold Sunday-morning services; however, it respectfully stands erect. It’s here that I met Misa Mi on a warm October morning last fall. As the Director of Curriculum Evaluation and Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, as well as the school’s health information specialist, she received a GMR grant in 2016 to fund a health literacy project for the HOPE Recuperative Care Center, a non-profit, short-term, skilled nursing facility for patients discharged from area hospitals after illness or surgery. Launched in 2015, the HOPE Recuperative Care Center is the only place in Michigan that offers medically supervised shelter to homeless patients who, otherwise, would be living on the street or in a traditional shelter only to exacerbate their recovery. One of ten beds in the refurbished church building now known as the HOPE Recuperative Center Dr. Mi kindly greeted me and then walked us to the side entrance. It took a couple minutes before the overnight janitor opened the locked door and led us up a dimly-lit, short flight of stairs to what was formerly the sanctuary. The church still retained its lofted beamed ceiling, organ chimes, and stainless glass windows. However, now replacing the pews were five wire-framed bunk beds neatly arranged i...
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