‘Health Care for Homeless Women’ Subject of Talk at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dr. Roseanna H. Means, who has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to homelessness, will deliver the annual Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture titled “Health Care for Homeless Women” on April 25 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Founder, president, and executive/medical director of Women of Means, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for homeless women in shelters, Dr. Means has practiced internal medicine in the Boston area since 1984, and maintains a private practice in Needham.

Dr. Means is involved with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Medical Society, Society of General Internal Medicine and Health Care for All. She teaches at Harvard Medical School.

For the past 15 years, she has devoted a significant portion of her professional life to issues around homelessness and women’s health, and has helped homeless and low-income women get access to health care. She has done relief work in Appalachia, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Means is the former program medical director of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, where she was also the medical director of the Barbara McInnis House, a 75-bed residential recuperative facility for homeless persons. This lecture is part of the Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues. Henry’s parents endowed the lecture series in memory of their daughter who died in 1997.