QUESTION
How often are mental health resources offered to NYC Health and Hospitals residents, and what is the participation rate?
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NYC Health and Hospitals do not closely track the usage of their mental health resources to protect resident privacy.
- NYC Health and Hospitals prioritize resident privacy, making it difficult to track how often and by how many people mental health resources are used.
- Mitch Katz states that while certain programs like Helping Healers Heal track contacts, they do not track by resident due to privacy concerns.
- The organization supports anonymous seeking of help and tries to offer varied mental health resources such as peer discussions, psychologists, or psychiatrists.
- The focus is on making help accessible without making residents feel surveilled, emphasizing the importance of mental health support without the pressure of monitoring.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Stu I mean suicide is currently the leading cause of death for male residents, and the second leading cause of death for female residents.
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HNA's testified that they have taken strides to increase access to mental health support for residents.
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Such as resident wellness were I mean, work groups, dedicated spaces and retreats, and helping healers heal program.
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Does HNH have a schedule on how often mental health resources are offered to residents?
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And second, how many residents take part?
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In each program?
Mitch Katz
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I don't think we have that information in I have to figure out obviously, sometimes people seek out help without telling anyone, and we would support that.
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Right?
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We would support anonymous seeking of help.
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So I can find out out helping heal is heal does track contacts.
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I don't know if they track contacts separately by residents.
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Do you know, John?
John Ulberg
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No.
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I've been told that the privacy is a major issue, and it could be a barrier if we Right.
Mitch Katz
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Too much to track.
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So we've we've tried to not track too closely who in our system seeks care so that nobody because remember numbers could get small even if you even if you said no names.
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If you said two people at 2 residents at Woodhall sought care, I think they would wonder, well, which 2 sought the care.
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So we've tried to not enumerate And we we want we want people to feel that they can go as often as they want, that they can seek as much and also that that they should seek the care they want.
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So some people wanna talk to a peer, some people wanna talk to a psychologist, or a psychiatrist.
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We try to say, both are good.
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We're not we're not sometimes people wanna talk to their program director.
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I I mean, there there's someone who went through residency.
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It's a difficult thing.
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It was difficult when I did it.
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It's difficult now.
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It's a It's a very stressful time in people's lives for a variety of reasons.
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And our our we're never gonna succeed in making it not stressful.
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Our job has to be to be able to meet people when they're feeling stressed.
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And prevent suicide so that people never feel that that's the only choice that they have.
Mercedes Narcisse
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I'm still I understand what you're saying about privacy and stuff, but I'm saying, like, if is the program is being used or not, actively because, like I say, we have a program and nobody goes in that room at all.
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Is that being effective things?
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That's what I I was understand.