“The hospital isn't the place that magically fixes problems, especially a lot of these longer term chronic issues.'
Hochul recently announced thatdedicated to people who are homeless would be opened in state-run hospitals. One opened in Manhattan at the beginning of November and another is slated to open at a downstate hospital early next year, Crain’s reported. It’s one piece of the broader plan Hochul and Adams have been rolling out in response to concerns about subway safety.
“Let me be clear: When we hospitalize those in crisis, it will be with a sense of mission to help them heal and prepare them for an appropriate community placement,” Adams said when he announced his policy earlier this week.A man sleeps on a subway platform in Manhattan on January 19, 2022. Mayor Eric Adams has expanded rules to forcibly remove people who appear to not be meeting their basic needs and send them to hospitals.
His organization also operates assertive community treatment teams, which provide regular check-ins on people with mental illness and seek to engage them in services like mental health care. As of last month, about 800 people were on the waiting list for these teams,Brenner said he is currently trying to launch a new team but is unable because of a lack of funding.
He said in addition to fully funding services for people with mental illness, the city should look into alternatives to traditional emergency rooms that have shown promise elsewhere in the country. He pointed to the more serenethat were initially developed in Alameda County, California, in 2013 before being rolled out in a handful of other cities across the country.
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