REMARKS
Council member synthesizes information on hospitalization rates and program success metrics
4:34:47
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Council Member Cabán synthesizes information from the advocates' testimony and data from other cities regarding mental health response programs. She highlights two key points:
- The importance of diverse settings for patient care, beyond emergency rooms and precincts
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The metric of success for alternative responder programs should be a reduction in overall 911 calls
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Emphasizes the need for a stronger continuum of care and preventative infrastructure
- Suggests that New York City's increasing emergency calls may not indicate program success
Tiffany Cabán
4:34:47
I I think some of the things that I've heard from from y'all and others kind of synthesizing it a bit.
4:34:53
A big one on the hospitalizations is that what we've seen in some of these other cities is that the reality is they simply have more places to take people, more places, more diverse settings that are meeting a whole host of different needs, And what we found from looking at the data from lots of different cities and the information that they're reporting is that the more places they have to take folks that are not in emergency room or a precinct the more successful the program is in the long term.
4:35:24
And then also while we saw here in New York City that the emergency calls are trending up, that actually the best metric for success for alternate responder program is for there to be less 911 calls overall, because that means that the preventative infrastructure and the continuum care infrastructure strengthening, and also that that alternative response is being effective in connecting folks to a continuum of care.
4:35:51
And so I just wanted to take the piece of information that folks have been sharing with us and kind of put that together a little bit.
4:35:57
So thank you.
