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Shelters, hospitals ‘playing ping pong’ with Philadelphia’s homeless, sick population

by Stacey Burling for  Philly.com – Inquirer/Daily News On the afternoon of June 12, an ambulance sent by Temple University Hospital’s Episcopal Campus pulled up to Station House, a shelter for homeless men, with the kind of passenger Michael Hinson has come to dread. Hinson noticed a disturbing pattern soon after he became president of SELF Inc., the organization that runs Station House and six other shelters, a year ago. Some hospitals seemed to be trying to circumvent city

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