City Care Awarded $100,000 Grant to Advance Medical Respite Care and Affordable Housing Stock in Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – May 14, 2026: City Care, a local non-profit providing low-barrier shelter, supportive services, and affordable housing to address the root causes of homelessness, is honored to announce it has received a $100,000 grant from Humana Healthy Horizons in Oklahoma. The award is in support of City Care’s capital campaign to build Oklahoma City’s first Medical Respite Care facility and additional affordable housing inventory. This investment advances the organization’s more than 30-year commitment to walking alongside neighbors experiencing homelessness and housing instability with dignity, compassion, and long-term solutions.

“We are sincerely grateful to Humana for believing in our neighbors and in solutions that honor their experiences with dignity and hope,” said Rachel Freeman, Chief Executive Officer at City Care. “At a time when too many people are discharged from hospitals with nowhere safe to recover, and too many families are one crisis away from losing their home, this investment helps us create the spaces for recuperation and housing connections our vulnerable neighbors urgently need.”

Across Oklahoma, the need for integrated housing and health care has reached a critical point. Each year, individuals experiencing homelessness are discharged from hospitals with nowhere safe to heal and are often forced to recover on the streets or in shelters ill-equipped to support proper medical recovery. At the same time, Oklahoma City faces a severe shortage of affordable housing, with a gap of nearly 68,000 units for households with the lowest incomes. These overlapping crises leave thousands of neighbors cycling between emergency systems without a stable path forward and at an increased risk of re-entry into homelessness.

City Care is addressing these urgent needs through a $13.5 million capital campaign focused on two transformative projects: a 40-bed Medical Respite Care facility with clinical staff practicing to their full scope on-site and the continued expansion of the metro’s affordable housing stock. 

The Medical Respite Care facility will be a 40-room, purpose-built space where individuals experiencing homelessness can recover safely after illness, injury, or hospitalization while receiving coordinated medical support and housing navigation services. While other recuperative care programs provide beneficial rest and supportive care to their clients, the additional medical respite focus of this facility will include the provision of services such as on-site medically trained staff and providers, including physicians, PAs, NPs, and/or behavioral health specialists. Designed to fill a problematic gap in the community, the facility will provide rest, stability, and a bridge to long-term care and housing stability.

Alongside this effort, City Care continues to expand affordable housing options for neighbors facing the greatest barriers to stability. Over the past three decades, City Care has developed 112 units of supportive housing, all built without debt to ensure true affordability for its residents, and is currently fundraising to build 27 additional units as part of the next phase of the Westlawn Gardens community. These homes will offer families and individuals a foundation for healing, belonging, and hope.

“These projects are not just buildings,” said Kori Hall, Chief Strategy Officer at City Care. “They are spaces of restoration and dignity. Places where people can heal and begin moving toward a future rooted in safety and stability. We are grateful to partner with Humana in this work and for believing in what is possible for our neighbors.”

City Care believes ending homelessness is both a responsibility and a practical investment in the health of the community. By integrating housing, medical recovery, connection to wraparound services, and compassionate care, the organization seeks not only to respond to crises, but to address the root causes of the cycles that keep people trapped in housing and health instability.

“We are proud to support City Care with a $100,000 donation to help establish Oklahoma’s first medical respite shelter.” said Joseph Fairbanks, CEO at Humana Healthy Horizons Oklahoma, one of the state’s Medicaid managed care organizations. “Investing in local communities and building needed health infrastructure, especially for our most vulnerable neighbors, is essential to improving the health outcomes. A medical respite shelter provides a safe place to heal, recover, and connect to ongoing care. This reduces unnecessary hospital visits while restoring dignity and stability in life. This investment reflects Humana’s commitment to improving access to care and addressing the social factors that shape health across Oklahoma.”