Health Care Without Walls In the News

Videos

• Learn about HCWW through the following videos:
  • Our Mission
  • Shelters Programs
  • Bridges to Elders
  • Bridges to Moms
• Our work goes on – screening at Rosie’s Place during the COVID-19 emergency lockdown. April 2020.
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• “Boston Organization Helps Homeless Pregnant Women”. March 5, 2019.
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• “5 for Good: Bridges to Moms program connects homeless mothers-to-be to needed services”. 2019.
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• Hear what our clients, nurses and doctors have to say about the difference Health Care Without walls – formerly called Women of Means – makes in the lives of women struggling with homelessness.
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• “Boston doctor’s kindness helps save homeless.” CBS Evening News! April 23, 2013. Article.
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• “Homeless Women Face More Obstacles.” CNN. January 24, 2011. Article.
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Featured Articles

• “The Status of Homeless Women in Massachusetts: Are We Adequately Addressing the Social Determinants of Their Health? A White Paper from Health Care Without Walls”. 2019. Click Here.
• “Homeless health care: An ounce of prevention.” Boston Globe Editorial. November 4, 2013. Click here.
• “Taking Healthcare to the Street.” Boston Globe. October 14, 2013. Click here.
• “Treating Homeless Women in Boston: Six Questions for Dr. Roseanna Means.” WBUR. Interview. September 1, 2010. Click here.
• “A Dose Of Compassion.” The Boston Globe, Monday, September 6, 2010. Click here.

 Older Articles

• “Wellesley’s Health Care Without Walls now has means to provide more help,” The Wellesley Townsman, January 14th, 2010.
• “Dr. Roseanna Means and her volunteers give homeless women more than medicine,” The Wellesley Townsman, Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 2006.
• “Dr. Roseanna’s Calling,” Wellesley Weston Magazine, Winter 2005-2006, pp. 26-38.
• “Boston Professor Looks at Quality of Healthcare for Homeless Women,” Healthcare Review, Sept. 3rd, 2004.
• “Rosie’s Place: Providing Medical Care for Homeless Women is Roseanna Means’s Calling,” Technology Review, March 2004, MIT pp. 12-14.
• “Addressing Inequalities in Healthcare,” Sociology Speaks, Boston College, 2002-2003, p.14.
• “Health Care Without Walls,” Tufts Medicine, Summer 2004 (volume 63 No. 3 p.36).
• “Along with Free Healthcare, Means Offers Chance to Vote,” Northeastern University, Journalism Student Caitlin Curran, September 19, 2004.
• “Doc ‘Means’ Business When Helping the Homeless,” Boston Herald, October 11, 2004, p.4.
• “Dr. Roseanna Means looks beyond suburbs to bring healthcare to city’s homeless women,” The Boston Globe, Tuesday, March 26th, 2002, pp. D1 and D6.
• “Doctor to the Poor,” Family Circle Magazine, 4th Annual Halo Awards, January 15th, 2002, p.13.