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Offers free housing for youth who are getting cancer treatment in Baltimore.

Temporary Shelter

• Provides books, brochures, and videotapes on a range of cancer-related subjects
• Maintains a comprehensive directory of programs and services

Offers outreach and short-term care coordination 

Case Management

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- Includes in-home health, education on health benefits, ombudsman services, and referrals
- Provides portable cribs and information on safe sleep practices
- Advocacy and outreach services available to individuals being released from incarceration

• Offers skilled nursing; physical, occupational, and speech language therapies; and personal care 
• Maternal/child home care, mental health services, infusion therapy, and medical social work are also available

• Inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient care available 
• Includes counseling, service coordination, transitional care, discharge planning 
• Offers pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive and occupational therapy, and medication management

• Includes educational, psychological, child life, social work, and outpatient specialty services 
• Offers inpatient care for chronic medical conditions like diabetes, renal disease, and lead poisoning 
• Provides rehabilitation services for chronic respiratory impairment 
• Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech services available

• Includes physical therapy, counseling, outpatient surgery, and wellness programs
• Screenings for breast cancer, cholesterol, cancer, blood pressure, and arthritis available 
• Offers groups focused on alcoholism, arthritis, pulmonary disease, coronary disease, and diabetes

• Evaluates hearing and balance disorders and diagnoses heart problems and vascular disease 
• Offers support groups and educational programs for various health conditions
• Provides resources for neck and spinal problems 
• Personal emergency response systems are available for those who need help at home 
• Case management services provided

Offers temporary housing for families traveling to the Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment.

Temporary Housing

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-Priority is given to urgent need, particularly those being treated for catastrophic illnesses.
-Children must currently be undergoing treatment. 

Provides assistance to patients during hospitalization and in their transition home after discharge.

Case Management

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- Refers patients to counseling, post-hospital placement, home health, and hospice services
- Helps with preparing living wills and medical power of attorney

Provides medical treatment and related services.

Medical Care

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- Provides emergency room services
- Offers services for breast cancer, diabetes, lung diseases, wound management, sleep disorders, and digestive disorders

Provides hospice care services to manage pain and symptoms at the end of life.

Patient and Family Support

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- Includes palliative care, home health aides, and case management
- Offers bereavement, spiritual care, and grief recovery services and support groups

Grants the wishes of children who have critical medical conditions.

Patient and Family Support

• Advocacy can involve speaking, media, writing to Congress, panels, and sharing literature

• A medical social worker is available to counsel patients and families 
• Inpatient care includes cancer care, gynecology, medicine, voice and swallowing therapy, obstetrics, speech and language therapy, and pediatrics

• Includes surgical, emergency services, internal medicine, occupational and physical therapy, psychiatry, radiation oncology and chemotherapy, dental, ophthalmology, obstetrics, diabetes management, home healthcare, social work services, women's health, and specialized care

Provides housing for families with children who are receiving treatment for a life-threatening or chronic illness.

Patient and Family Support

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- Stays are limited to 90 days

Arranges flights for cancer patients to sites within 100 miles of a treatment center for second opinions, clinical trial, and remission checkups.

Transportation

Provides support services for individuals with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Aging and Disability Services

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- Offers a medical equipment loan closet, transportation, respite, and assistive technology.

- Support groups and service coordination available.

• Operates specialized centers for orthopedics, kidney disease, rheumatology, and renal dialysis 
• Offers emergency services, case management, support groups, and education
• Some free and low-cost preventive care and health screenings available

• Includes a community kitchen, dining room, laundry room, and a room for recreation 
• Patients can bring one caregiver, but no children are allowed 
• Must stay a minimum of 3 nights per week

Offers advance care planning with the assistance of a licensed social worker.

Legal Services

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- Includes creating a living will, choosing a healthcare agent, and reviewing and sharing documents with medical providers

• Includes medical and nursing care, social work, dietary guidance, lab work, and medication 
• Occupational, speech and physical therapies available 
• Referrals provided for X-rays, medical equipment, nutrition services, and more

• Evaluation, outpatient treatment, and support groups available for many conditions
• Offers surgery for orthopedics, dentistry, plastic surgery, maxillofacial surgery, and ENT 
• Patients can meet with a social worker to plan for after-care services