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Funding allocation for NYC Health and Hospitals addiction initiatives
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about the allocation of $22 million in annual settlement funding for NYC Health and Hospitals' addiction initiatives. Dr. Daniel Schatz provides a detailed breakdown of the funding distribution across various programs, including mobile harm reduction vans, ED Leads expansion, workforce training, addiction response teams, addiction counselors in birthing units, and family SUD clinics. He explains that the allocation is based on patient needs, diagnoses, and opportunities at different facilities.
- $2.2 million for mobile harm reduction (SHOW) vans
- $10 million for ED Leads expansion
- $2.4 million for workforce training programs
- $3 million for addiction response teams
- $1.2 million for addiction counselors in birthing units
- $3.6 million for family SUD clinic (RISE center) at Lincoln Hospital
Mercedes Narcisse
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Once again, I have to say thank you for your time, for being here.
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Funding allocation.
0:54:47
I wanna know.
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New York City Health and Hospitals was AMAC for 22,000,000 in annual settlement funding for fiscal year, 2027.
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Hi.
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Is h and h distributing these funds among initiatives like addiction counseling in birthing units, specialized addiction response team, and other treatment expansion?
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Do all H and H locations receive the same amount of funding?
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If not, what metrics are used to determine how much money is being dispersed to each facility?
Dr. Daniel Schatz
0:55:25
Thank you so much, chairman.
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Narcisse, your calculations were perfect.
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So 22,300,000 annually, and then broken down by our mobile harm reduction vans, our show vans, that's 2,200,000.
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ED Leads expansion is another 10,000,000.
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The workforce training program that we talked about was 2,400,000.
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The addiction response teams is 3,000,000.
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The addiction counselors and the birthing units that you referred to is 1,200,000.
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And then our family SUD clinic or our RISE center, that is at Lincoln is 3,600,000.
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The way we look at it is, we look at we look at where the patients are, who's presenting with what diagnoses, what gaps, what opportunities are available, what the in particular, facilities need.
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For instance, our, addiction response teams, those are at the 3 facilities that didn't have inpatient addiction consult services previously funded through CATCH and now part of our general budget.
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For ED leads, that's across the system because we've been hearing lots of positive, reports from the patients, from the staff, from the addiction staff, and from the emergency medicine staff, that they've been really helpful, and so we wanna expand it towards 247 and continue to work there.
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However, as pointed out many, many times here, and in the reports, the South Bronx has hit in particularly hard, and we wanna start getting to the under caught under rooting issue of that and intergenerational impact of addiction.
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That's why we have our family, addiction clinic right there.
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We look at our numbers, our opportunities, and how the clinics are doing and expand as they, continue to recruit and retain patients.