InvestigateTV+: Bringing the hospital to neighborhoods
Season 4, Episode 33
(InvestigateTV) — InvestigateTV+ explores a pilot program bringing the hospital to people’s homes, delivering more than preventative care while working to expand nationwide.
Plus, we take an in-depth look at a federal initiative to recruit and retain foster homes and whether states can meet the goal of a home for every child.
Then, a story of sweet success: we go behind the scenes with a Vermont sugar maker keeping nearly century-old traditions alive.
Nurses in the neighborhood
A pilot program called Neighborhood Nursing is providing basic primary care outside the traditional clinic setting in East Baltimore, setting up in a church and visiting apartment complexes and homes to reach residents.
The program’s services are open to anyone who lives in the area. Those services are free and funded for now largely through philanthropic donations.
A home for every child
Kids sleeping in shelters, bussed between hotels, and overnights in office buildings. That’s the reality for many foster children in America.
For every 100 children in foster care, federal data shows that only 57 licenses homes are available.
In an effort to close that gap, the federal government launched a campaign in November 2025 called “A Home for Every Child.”
Traveling for hand surgery
A family traveled from Turkey to St. Louis for their daughter’s surgery to treat a rare condition affecting fewer than 100 people worldwide.
Elisa, an 18-month-old, was born with eight fingers on her left hand. She was diagnosed with Ulnar Dimelia, also known as Mirror Hand Syndrome.
The science of sugar making
During the season of sugar making at Walker’s Pure Vermont Maple Syrup in Underhill, they steam ahead with batch after batch of the sweet stuff.
The guys in the sugarhouse will be working 10 hours or more each day. Craig Walker, who’s 86, spent a lifetime making maple syrup. Now, much of his day is on the road. “That’s my job, I’ve been promoted to truck driver,” he said. “We have to have the sap first to make the syrup.”
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