First Lady Chirlane McCray launched a new program at Bellevue Hospital Tuesday for kids struggling with mental health problems.
The “partial hospitalization” program is meant for 6- to 17-year-olds whose troubles are too severe for regular outpatient visits, but who will be able to go home at night instead of being hospitalized. It will serve up to 550 children and teens a year, and they’ll also take classes at a special public school co-located at Bellevue.
“Five hundred families who are going through the intensely stressful experience of watching one of their children suffer through a serious psychiatric disorder will be able to start putting their lives back together,” McCray said.
[For more of this story, written by Erin Durkin, go to http://www.nydailynews.com/new...ms-article-1.2220244]
Comments (0)