Chair Cabán on publishing mobile treatment wait list data
Cabán asks whether DOHMH would publish wait list data quarterly. Nichols expresses concern that visible wait lists might discourage referrals. Cabán pushes back, arguing organizations already know the wait lists exist and need the data for advocacy.
On the waitlist data, would you guys consider publishing the data quarterly?
You said it's dynamic, it changes, but would you guys...
guys be willing to publish that?
I think we're open to having a conversation with you, Chair, and exploring what's possible there.
And, oh, does anybody want to add to that?
Yeah, I think it's important to think about that.
We're open to it.
We're also concerned that referral sources may not make referrals if they see the wait list.
And the truth is we're reviewing every application for a variety of clinical risk factors, and so we're prioritizing higher risk applicants, and we don't want to discourage people from making referrals.
I mean, I don't know.
I guess, is that a direct conversation you've had with referring organizations?
Because I don't know that that's the approach that they would...
Take and I think just everybody having this information is super helpful.
I mean, it also would make it so that, you know, one of us doesn't have to call you guys and like then get follow up from somebody else to get the information if we know that we can just like access it in a place and talk to our partners about it.
So I might.
I might suggest maybe rethinking that, especially if organizations haven't said that that's how they would.
React to having the to being able to see the way they know they know the waitlist is there believe me they know they just want to know how how deep it is um because it helps them in their advocacy right like they want to be able to make
accurate asks of us of of you guys and i know that we can just like access it in a in a place and talk to our our partners about it so i i might
I think that that information is helpful.
Okay.
I might suggest maybe rethinking that, especially if organizations haven't said that that's how they would.
I'm going to move on to one more piece here, and then I'll go to Kali.
I have more questions, but I want Kali to be able to ask questions.
React to having the to being able to see the way they know they know the waitlist is there believe me they know they just want to know how how deep it is um because it helps them in their advocacy right like they want to be able to make