Street Medicine Detroit

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Street Medicine Detroit

www.streetmedicinedetroit.org
Our mission is to ensure access to quality medical care for Detroit’s unreached and service resistant homeless population.

Amazon wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/12VOYCLOFFHG2?ref_=wl_share Goals and Objectives

1.Medically, we will improve access to quality health care for Detroit’s homeless population through street-based and shelter-based primary care. This will be accomplished by engaging them with primary and preventative care, linking patients to local resources, and providing follow-up. Our ultimate goal is to connect patients with a primary medical home.

2.Address the unique problems of the homeless through a psychosocial and interdisciplinary model of care that looks at each person holistically and focuses on the individual’s own goals and needs.

3.Promote health literacy, healthier lifestyles, and general well-being.

4.Break down stigmas and confront stereotypes by creating a space of positive dialogue and an environment of dignity and respect between the homeless population and the medical world.

5.Create a valuable educational and community service opportunity for students to practice Street Medicine.

10/05/2025

From yesterdays street run! We love this community 💓

08/22/2025

Hello Facebook Friends! Street Medicine Detroit is back to Facebook, we have been up to A LOT in the past few years. Our ultimate goal at SMD is to bridge the gaps between unhoused and medical communities by building relationships and offering companionship and respect. Over the past few years we have expanded our scope of care by working with new physicians and we have made new community partnerships to provide our patients with food, outreach supplies, and psychiatric support in addition to medical care. We consult in Henry Ford and Detroit Medical Center to help provide continuity of care for our unhoused patients that have been discharged. Currently we are working on a program to support pregnant patients and provide them with love, support, and care that all pregnant people deserve.

Through community collaboration we are able to help hundreds of patients and have become a well known presence for our unhoused friends in Detroit. Street medicine allows us to meet patients where they are and provide patient centered support.

Check out our mid year report and see all that we have been doing in Detroit so far this year. Also check us out on https://streetmedicinedetroit.org/ for more information and stay tuned for more on what SMD is working on in Detroit!

10/06/2021

We love the enthusiasm of our volunteers and leaders! It's such an honor to help provide healthcare to our patients. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible!

08/09/2021

“These things have been killin’ my feet. Thankfully someone came by and gave me some new ones right off their own feet!”

06/02/2021

A busy day at our shelter-based run! We cared for patients’ feet, took blood pressures, and checked blood sugars. Thank you to everyone who came out and volunteered with us!

04/18/2021

Street Medicine Detroit is a non-profit, student run organization devoted to helping those on the street by providing healthcare, food, and essential items. We’ve made an Amazon wishlist of items needed to restock our supplies so we can continue to help members of our community. If you are able, we would greatly appreciate any contributions. Everything will go directly to our neighbors on the streets. Thank you so much for your support!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/12VOYCLOFFHG2?ref_=wl_share

04/12/2021

Working with and , we administered 90 COVID vaccines over the last week. So happy we’re able to provide these much needed vaccines to our neighbors! We couldn’t have done this without the who supplied the vaccines.

03/22/2021

A huge thank you to our Alumni Advisory Council for donating over 2,000 Ford surgical masks! We’re looking forward to handing them out on our upcoming street and shelter runs.

02/14/2021

Foot care is such an important part of what we do! It's something we don't think twice about- change socks when they get wet, take shoes off to let our feet breathe. But what happens when you're constantly on your feet and don't have a dry pair of socks or a warm place to take your shoes off? Not only is foot care important to out patients' wellbeing, but it also allows us to have time to talk face to face with the patients, listen to their stories, and form better connections. Pictured is a patient getting calluses filed down.

02/04/2021

So excited and thankful to officially resume our street runs! Starting in January, we began outreach runs with M4 students and ended the month with a successful street run. Looking forward to continuing helping our neighbors in the months to come!

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http://streetmedicinedetroit.org/

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