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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
‘We must recognize that the culture of violence exists on Rikers Island – and will continue to exist in the new borough facilities that will be built – if concrete…
The first lady, who is heavily involved in the multi-faceted effort to improve mental-healthcare in New York, says she has put running for office herself ‘on the list’ of potential…
Public Advocate hopeful JC Polanco also believes relatives of the severely mentally ill should be legally obligated to report when those patients appear dangerous.
