At the start of the pandemic, New York lifted restrictions on the use of telehealth for Medicaid recipients. The change has meant better access to mental health services for families involved in the state’s child welfare system, including youth in foster care, a new survey found.
Janos Marton’s plan would pump $50 million a year to community-based providers in hopes of keeping people with mental illness out of police cars, courthouse lockups and jail cells.
Barriers and cliffs have surfaced in a five-year pilot program for managed care of Medicaid mental-health spending.
City Limits is teaming up with newsrooms around the country to survey the mental-health impacts New Yorkers have felt from climate disasters like Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Maria and more.
President Trump’s comments about the likelihood of suicide during the COVID-19 crisis distressed many mental health professionals.
Since its inception 20 years ago, the Asian Psychiatry program at Gracie Square Hospital has been providing patients with healthy, tasty meals and snacks made by in-house Chinese chefs following Asian recipes.
‘This is the right time for the city to also make a bold commitment to support people with serious and persistent mental and behavioral health needs, in ways that will prevent contact (or further contact) with law enforcement at every possible juncture.’
Out of the psychiatry-reform movements of the late 20th Century came a remarkable innovation: ‘Peer workers’ who have experienced mental-heath crises working alongside other clinicians. But are today’s peers right in saying they are sidelined by NY’s system?
Montefiore Medical Center appears to have fought off a threatened loss of federal funding after multiple suicide attempts, several successful, during a two-year period. But the hospital wouldn’t answer detailed questions about whether problems identified by federal inspectors have all been corrected.
The city offers a menu of mental-health services for seniors. But funding and services are uneven at the city’s senior centers and neighborhood resources can determine what mental-health care seniors receive.
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