Doing walking rounds, we try to keep our team down to four people. We don’t want to invade (their space) with a lot of people. It’s their home. So there’s an outreach expert who knows the field and knows the people. There’s myself or a medical person, and then we always have a student or two. And we bring a social worker with us.

We’ll go into the camp, and we make sure they’re OK with us coming in. Almost all the homeless are cordial, if not downright really friendly. And we just join them, and they can express what’s going on. We always try then to check in with how they’re doing medically. If they have insurance, if they have medicines that they should be on that they ran out of. Do they have a doctor? “Did you get that looked at?” What’s important to the patient, the person, is our priority.