Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion - Project Title: FY 2024 Behavioral Health Service Expansion Applicant Name: Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center, Inc. (BPMC) Address: 650 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Main Site) Project Director: Philip Onorato Phone Number: 718-596-9800 Email Address: ponorato@brooklynplaza.org Website Address: www.brooklynplaza.org HCP Grantee Number: H80CS00410 Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center (BPMC) will implement the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to expand its mental health and substance use services in the low-income, underserved neighborhoods of Northwest and Central Brooklyn. The high prevalence of mental health and substance use conditions among BPMC’s target population reflects the significant unmet need for mental health and substance use services as well as the structural and systemic barriers that its low-income and largely minority target population experiences accessing these services. Almost three times as many adults in NYC with mental illness are from low-income households compared to high-income households and the rate of psychiatric hospitalizations is twice as high in BPMC’s high-poverty Brooklyn neighborhoods compared to low-poverty neighborhoods. Similarly, the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths in NYC in 2022 were among Black and low-income residents. CoCM is an evidenced-based model of providing mental health and substance use services in a primary care setting. By integrating behavioral health care managers and a consulting psychiatric provider into primary care, BPMC will provide seamless, holistic mental health and substance use care. Research has demonstrated that this model improves clinical outcomes, decreases treatment times, and increases capacity for mental health and substance use patients. BPMC will implement the CoCM model at its three health center sites:1) its main site, which is currently located at 650 Fulton Street but will move to the Bedford Union Armory in Crown Heights in Dec 2024; 2) the Whitman-Ingersoll-Farragut Public Housing Health Center, which serves residents of a large public housing development, and 3) Benjamin Banneker Academy, a NYC public high school. This funding will support the following staff: 3 behavioral health care managers who will work across the three sites, a consulting psychiatric provider (either a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner) who will provide decision support and case review, a Program Manager who will oversee the program, and a Clinical Data Manager who support measurement-based care and track patient outcomes. Funding will also enhance BPMC’s mental health and substance use screening efforts and train primary care staff on CoCM to ensure they have the resources to collaborate with the behavioral health care manager and consulting psychiatric provider and are comfortable prescribing psychotropic medications and MOUD. BPMC anticipates the implementation of the model will substantially increase the number of patients who receive mental health and substance use services. Specifically, it expects an 50% increase in patients receiving mental health services (from 224 in CY2023 to 336 in CY2025) and an 25% increase in patients receiving substance use services (from 97 in CY2023 to 126 in CY2025), including a one-fold increase in patients who receive MOUD.
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