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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – It's been implicit 2 weeks since RH Community Builders took implicit operations of the recuperative care facility connected North Blackstone.
On Oct. 7, the LA-based organization, Soul Housing, abruptly unopen down operations, leaving 250 radical astatine hazard of losing shelter.
But 2 assemblage leaders stepped up earlier that could happen. The Poverello House took successful astir 40 radical surviving astatine the shelter, and RH Community Builders took implicit operations to guarantee nary 1 was unexpectedly enactment retired connected the street.
Forty Soul Housing unit besides received same-day termination. But Katie Wilbur, enforcement manager of RH Community Builders, says they were capable to support 15 of those employees.
"Our squad has been moving hard to fig retired precisely what's been going on. Identify who was present and past fig retired who should beryllium present and who couldn't enactment immoderate longer," shared Wilbur. And the installation has been renamed Evolv Path.
The shelter, funded done Medi-Cal, provides enactment for patients precocious discharged from the hospital. They're eligible for up to six months of care. "That looks similar a batch of coiled care. Being capable to easy get to follow-up appointments and medicine absorption with our nursing team," Wilbur explained.
The adjacent steps for Evolv Path are to determination patients to a caller installation that RH Community has been moving connected anterior to the closure of Soul Housing. "We are accepting caller referrals," Wilbur added. While she can't accidental wherever the caller recuperative attraction installation volition be, Wilbur hopes to person that tract moving by the extremity of the year.
The spot connected North Blackstone is privately owned, Wilbur said, truthful it's chartless what volition hap to the erstwhile motel once the clients are taken to the caller location.
