The Homeless Taskforce was conceived to enhance and improve continuity of care and service delivery to intensive service recipients (high utilizers) of LAC+USC hospital services through the redirection of medically complex and homeless individuals to community based services where integrated care utilizing linkage to ongoing primary care, mental health care and substance abuse services can be facilitated.

This initiative is part of a greater strategy to promote change related to the help seeking behaviors of high utilizing individuals of LA County public health resources, primarily hospital Emergency Departments (EDs).