Otonichar details CHS reentry and discharge planning services
Otonichar describes CHS reentry services, including Medicaid enrollment, community provider connections, medication access, and resources like CRAN, Portline, and PORT practices. He says patients with serious mental illness are offered supportive housing applications and other supports.
Like all of CHS's patient care services, the Mental Health Service closely collaborates with CHS's Reentry and Transition Service to help connect patients to clinical resources in the community and to help ensure continuity of care upon discharge from jail.
CHS makes core reentry services available to all patients and provides individualized discharge plans to patients with particular clinical needs, including all consenting patients receiving mental health treatment.
Reentry staff work to ensure that at a minimum, patients have Medicaid, a community provider, access to medication, and awareness of a variety of safety net resources.
These resources include but are not limited to CHS Community Reentry Assistance Network, or CRAN, which helps former patients access community-based health and social services.
CHS's peer staff general helpline called Portline, which helps people navigate community-based services, and the Point of Reentry and Transition, or PORT, practices located at New York City Health and Hospitals Bellevue
and Kings County Hospitals, which provide primary care, mental health care, and wraparound services to formerly incarcerated individuals.
We also invite all patients to drop into CHS's reentry services center on the visitor side of Rikers Island after their release.
Patients with serious mental illness are offered a
services including 2010 E supportive housing applications transitional case management services and free smartphones with a year-long service plan
the reentry team also works closely with partners in New York City government to help support our patients when they return to the community
For example, CHS refers patients as appropriate to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Single Point of Access, or SPOA, program,
which connects people to intensive mobile treatment, assertive community treatment, and other such community-based programs.