Rebekah L. Sanders Arizona Republic Published 8:00 AM EDT Apr 10, 2019 Sylvestre Primous, a 71-year-old U.S. Army veteran, stopped seeing doctors for months even though his heart was failing, walking was painful and his anxiety was off the charts. Getting to a medical appointment seemed too difficult while he was living at a Phoenix homeless shelter and didn’t have a car. Primous had been unable to find an apartment he could afford after a landlord suddenly sold the trailer he rented. Continuing the housing search was his main focus, not his health. “I’m sick because I’m homeless. The stress of being homeless, the stress of not having nowhere, not having my place,” said Primous, a Purple Heart recipient who was disabled by shrapnel in Vietnam. “This is six months of me deteriorating.” Then Primous learned about Elaine, a new nonprofit that picks up homeless people from hospitals, drives them from shelters to doctor visits and helps them navigate housing and health care. Named after Elaine Herzberg, the homeless woman killed in Tempe by a self-driving Uber, and funded by her family, the organization seeks to keep people healthy so they won’t need to make expensive emergency-room visits and ultimately can get off the street. Michelle Detrick, Elaine’s transportation director and a fellow military veteran,… Read full this story
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