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Improving NYC's public health care system with a focus on mental health
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Council Member Keith Powers asks Dr. Patricia Marthone about potential improvements to NYC's public health care system. Dr. Marthone emphasizes the need for better mental health services and access.
- Focus on improving mental health services and access to daily therapy and psychiatrists
- Addressing challenges in obtaining timely evaluations and treatment plans, especially for teens
- Recognition of the nationwide shortage of mental health providers
- Suggestion to encourage more people to join the mental health workforce
- Mention of H&H's use of various modes of treatment, including online options
- Emphasis on the need to help people with mental illness stay housed and off the streets
Keith Powers
0:41:53
Yep, thanks.
0:41:55
And in your experience what are changes that you would like to see happen within our public health care system right now, how we deliver, provide care to individuals?
0:42:06
Obviously our H and H is the backbone of so many of our healthcare institutions here healthcare in the city providing care to know whether it's our emergency workers here who can might get hurt or injured on the job or worse to ordinary New Yorkers who need that safety net.
0:42:29
It's critical and I'm joined by Councilmember Brewer here as well.
0:42:33
So any thoughts on ways to improve services and care and things you'd like to see happen during your tenure as on the board?
Dr. Patricia Marthone
0:42:43
I'm gonna go back to mental health.
0:42:45
I think mental health with H and H being able to improve on our services and access to the daily therapy and and psychiatrists would be a benefit to entire for all to all of New York City.
0:43:00
I I think some of the challenges people face with even their teens and not being able to resolve those issues fast enough because they don't have access to to having those evaluations done and then treatment plans is problematic for us in New York.
0:43:16
Let along the adult that has had mental illness their whole life and did not or haven't has not understood or felt good in a very long time to be able to maintain their own health in that status.
0:43:29
To not have that continuous access to mental health providers is a great problem in the field And it's not necessarily anyone's fault because I believe this is a problem straight across The United States right now, but whatever we can do to encourage people to come and be part of our solution I would highly suggest we do that.
0:43:48
I mean I don't know if you are aware or not that we do use every mode and method that we can to engage individuals.
0:43:56
We do that they do online treatment, they do everything they possibly can, but it's still not enough and that's unfortunate.
0:44:03
So we do need to move that needle as far as we can to also help people stay on house and off the street that have mental illness as well.
Keith Powers
0:44:09
Great.