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McKenzie describes DFTA staffing oversight and new chief quality officer

New York City Council · Oct 27, 2026 · starts 2:07:22 · 57 sec

Zhuang asks how the city ensures staff meet older adults' needs and DFTA's role in staffing. McKenzie says DFTA has staff on site daily, weekly supervisory staff, and the commissioner visits centers. She recently onboarded DFTA's first chief quality officer to analyze data and focus on outcomes.

Susan Zhuang

How can city ensure the staff meet the needs of these older adults?

Susan Zhuang

What role does DIFTA play in staffing?

Lisa Scott McKenzie

And again, it goes back to the monitoring, as I've mentioned.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

We have staff on site daily.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

We have weekly supervisory staff that are out at the centers.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Obviously, I'm visiting the centers as well.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

And we're closely monitoring the metrics.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

One additional provision that we provided very recently, I've onboarded the very first chief quality officer for DFTA so that we could take a deeper dive into the data that's available.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Obviously, we have an extensive amount of data, but we want to be sure that we're focusing on the outcomes and how we're really affecting the lives of older adults.

Susan Zhuang

Okay.

Susan Zhuang

So you guys already doing...

Susan Zhuang

Like feedback from NITRA and also OACs.

Susan Zhuang

Okay.

Lisa Scott McKenzie

Absolutely.