Sunday, April 27, 2025
4/27/2025
Interfaith Medical Center (IMC) - Interfaith Medical Center (IMC) is proposing a PBHCI program in Brooklyn, NY to coordinate and integrate services through the co-location of primary and specialty care medical services in a community-based behavioral health setting (IMC's Center for Mental Health). IMC will establish a PBHCI Coordination Team, and provide a continuum of preventive and health promotion services, including evidence-based practices. Project name. IMC PBHCI Program Populations to be served. The PBHCI program will serve adults with serious mental illnesses (SMI) and those with co-occurring substance use disorders who have or are at risk for co-morbid primary care conditions and chronic disease. The population of focus will be racial/ethnic minority populations at high risk for SMI and co-occurring substance use disorders. The service area will be the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Central Brooklyn (including the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Brownsville); the service area population is mostly African-American, and suffers from extremely high rates of substance use disorders, mental illness, and chronic primary care health conditions, such as heart disease and hypertension.
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