NYC Opens First Therapeutic Housing Unit At Bellevue Hospital

The metropolis’s first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit has opened at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, marking a step within the plan to shut Rikers Island. Located at 462 First Avenue in Kips Bay, Manhattan, the 104-bed facility is designed to serve incarcerated people with complicated medical wants. Clinically weak detainees can be transferred from Rikers into the brand new facility.

The undertaking is meant to shift how medical care is delivered throughout the correctional system, specializing in well timed remedy and expanded medical entry. Patients housed within the unit embody these with critical situations reminiscent of most cancers and congestive coronary heart failure who don’t require hospitalization however face elevated dangers in conventional jail environments. The facility permits for nearer proximity to hospital assets whereas sustaining custody operations.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, through Google Maps.

Located on the Bellevue campus, the unit supplies direct entry to specialty companies together with oncology, cardiology, and neurology. Clinical care can be administered on-site by Correctional Health Services (CHS) employees in coordination with hospital specialists, whereas the New York City Department of Correction will oversee safety and operations. The facility complies with requirements set by oversight our bodies together with the NYC Board of Correction and the New York State Commission of Correction.

Additional Outposted Therapeutic Housing Units are deliberate at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull and North Central Bronx Hospital, with 144 and 92 beds respectively. These future websites are anticipated to focus totally on people with important psychological well being wants, increasing the system’s capability for specialised care as a part of the broader technique to section out Rikers Island.

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