Mobile Outreach Street Health

• New study highlights effectiveness of Halifax safe supply drug program

  The safe supply program was launched in response to a COVID-19 outbreak in an emergency shelter and has since been proven 'effective,' an evaluation shows.

  Health

  Apr 16, 2022
  
• COVID-19: Outreach workers rapidly respond to confirmed case at Halifax shelter

  Halifax shelter confirms first case of COVID-19 since pandemic began.

  Health

  May 6, 2021
  
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• Nova Scotia government moves homeless population up priority line for vaccines

  The province says the mobile clinics will help administer vaccines to about 900 people who use, work or volunteer at shelters in the Halifax Region.

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2021
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• Halifax old phone drive kicks off during COVID-19 in memory of community health visionary

  An old phone drive is underway in memory of Patti Melanson and her legacy as the visionary behind Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH) Team.

  Features

  Dec 4, 2020
• Halifax cellphone drive honours nurse who served society’s most vulnerable

  IT professionals will wipe the old phones clean and they will be distributed through Shelter Nova Scotia to those in need.

  Canada

  Dec 20, 2018
• Patti Melanson, advocate for vulnerable Haligonians and Order of Nova Scotia winner, has died

  A practicing nurse in Nova Scotia for more than 25 years, Melanson was the visionary behind the Mobile Outreach Street Health team.

  Health

  Dec 16, 2018
• Warming centre opens on Gottingen Street as blizzard hits Halifax

  As part of the extreme weather plan, community shelters and Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH) have partnered to create the warming centre on Gottingen Street.

  Weather

  Feb 8, 2016