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Chapter 3: Homeless Population and Current Service Capacity which allows patients to see doctors throughout the community. Unfortunately, too few services are available to homeless people, 73 percent of whom lack insurance of any kind. Often the primary or only place in which medical care is received is in the - emergency room. Transitional and ongoing mental health care is provided through Community Support - centers and through transitional programs, drop-in centers and local health centers. There are limited Community Support Centers in Alameda County, several of them are in North county, one in South County and one in East County. Emergency shelter Emergency shelters are another first point of contact with the homeless service delivery system. There are now approximately 25 shelters in the county, providing a total of _ 834 beds. Allowable stays in shelters average 45 days and range from 30 days to 6 months. 56 additional "armory" beds are available in winter, and 12 programs have limited supplies of motel vouchers for individuals, families, or those with HIV/AIDS. _ With an estimated 12,000 homeless people on any given night, there is room for fewer than 10 percent of the homeless population. In 1991, ESN conducted the only known unduplicated count of Alameda County shelter turnaways; 2,448 people were turned away from shelters in the course of one week, more than three people for each of the shelter beds then existing. Domestic violence - shelters estimate a turnaway rate of five for every one bed. Alameda County Housing and Community Development provides the following - information on shelter bed subregion and homeless subpopulation coverage. Shelter beds are shown where they are located. Often shelters draw from, and were established to serve, a wider geographic area. Alameda County-Wide Homeless Continuum of Care Plan: April 1997 - 28