QUESTION
Where were the planned expansion areas for pairing social workers with EMS personnel?
0:44:35
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Mitch Katz clarifies that New York City Health And Hospitals does not determine the locations for pairing social workers with EMS personnel, hinting at collaboration with the fire department for these details.
- Mitch Katz states the responsibility of providing social workers lies with the Health And Hospitals, not determining expansion locations.
- The specific areas for the planned expansion were not known to Katz, but he suggests they are obtainable through collaboration with the fire department.
- Katz emphasizes the role of Health And Hospitals is to staff the additional teams as requested by the city.
- The location decision for the expansion involving social workers and EMS personnel is not made by Health And Hospitals.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:44:35
In what locations would this expansion have taken place?
Mitch Katz
0:44:40
Again, remember, our role as health and hospitals is to provide the social workers.
0:44:46
So I I don't know the the specific areas where the the additional social workers who are going to be paired to the EMS people, but I think that's learnable.
0:44:57
We'll work with our fire department colleagues to find out what the expansion areas were planned to be.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:45:04
So you never had that information.
Mitch Katz
0:45:06
Right.
0:45:06
We again, we our role is if the city says we want, you know, to have 30 teams instead of 20, we'll hire the social workers and train the social workers for those 10 additional teams, but we don't determine where those teams go.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:45:21
Gotcha.
