Narcisse asks whether H&H has enough licensed mental health clinicians
Narcisse asks about clinician capacity for TGNB patients. Fattal says H&H child and adolescent behavioral services have capacity across boroughs, patients can be referred internally or call 1-844-NYC4NYC, and Narcisse praises H&H for not turning people away.
Does H&H have enough licensed mental health clinicians to serve TGNB patients?
Yes, I'm happy to share that we do have capacity to, in our child and adolescent behavioral services, we offer the whole spectrum of services for children and adolescents in all boroughs.
And we welcome all New Yorkers, including LGBTQ plus patients.
And we've made it very easy for people to access care in our system.
Two ways.
One is that they can be referred by their medical team, and their medical team can connect them internally to behavioral services, or people can call on their own.
It's one number, the contact center.
I can mention it, 1-844-NYC4NYC, and all they have to say is, I want to be connected to behavioral services, and we take care of it from there.
And by the way, I'm very proud of H&H providing those services because we know when other hospital facilities are not receiving patients, H&H, you know, if you're listening to know that H&H is on your side, the city hospital never turned people away.