Joel Hunt PA-C

Hunt leads a team dedicated to improving the lives of those who live unsheltered, connecting them to care at JPS and reducing reliance on emergency services. Among his patients are those who visit the Emergency Department more than 50 times a year. He is a pioneer in the field of street medicine, providing care in homeless camps, under bridges and in homeless shelters — meeting people, as he says, “in their own reality,” providing hands-on care and coordinating with community partner organizations to provide services from substance abuse treatment and mental health therapy to permanent assisted housing. A former surgical tech and combat medic in the Army, Hunt started practicing medicine on the streets after earning his master’s in physician assistant studies from the University of Utah.