These offices are headed up by a commissioner who also serves on a council that performs inter-office coordination.[2] Their regulations are compiled in title 14 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.
Mental healthedit
The majority of the public mental health system is in voluntary outpatient programs, the largest and most used being clinic treatment services.[3]Inpatient care is provided mainly by state psychiatric centers, supplemented by homeless shelters, the general hospital network, and jails.[4] 45–57% of New York mental health consumers use Medicaid, which is the largest single source of funding.[5]
The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is responsible for assuring the development of comprehensive plans, programs, and services in the areas of research, prevention, and care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training of the mentally ill.[6] Programs include inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, day care, emergency, and rehabilitative treatments and services.[7] OMH regulates and licenses private mental health services, such private psychiatric centers, clinics, and treatment facilities, including those in hospitals and schools.[citation needed] OMH also regulates residential treatment facilities for children and youth operated by nonprofit corporations.[8][9] The public hospitals in the department are listed below, though there are many other private facilities; the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research are medical research institutes.[10] The New York State Incident Management and Reporting System (NIMRS) is used by providers for reportable incidents.
The Behavioral Health Services Advisory Council (BHSAC) advises OMH by reviewing, monitoring, and evaluating the adequacy and delivery of services.[14][15][16] The state Mental Hygiene Legal Service (MHLS) provides legal representation, advice, and assistance to mentally disabled persons under the care or jurisdiction of state-operated or licensed facilities concerning their admission, retention, care, or treatment.[17][18][19] The Senate's Mental Health and Assembly's Mental Health standing committees conduct legislative oversight, budget advocacy, and otherwise report bills on the services, care, treatment, and advocacy for individuals with various disabilities,[20][21] while the Senate's Health and Assembly's Health standing committees focus on healthcare facilities operations and services delivery more generally.[22][23]
Addictionedit
The Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) provides funding, technical assistance, and oversight to a network of over 1,300 community-based addiction treatment programs, as well as 12 state-operated addiction treatment centers.
Statewide Health Information Networkedit
The Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY, pronounced "shiny") is a health information exchange that allows healthcare providers to access and share patient data, managed by the nonprofit New York eHealth Collaborative. The Regional Health Information Organizations include:
In 1836–1843 the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica (Utica State Hospital) was established, and in 1865–1869 the Willard Asylum (Willard State Hospital) was established for the incurably insane and mentally ill paupers in the poorhouses.[24][25][26][27] Throughout the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries, families and county poorhouses provided care to the mentally disabled, but in 1890 the State Care Act made the state responsible for the pauper insane.[28][27] In 1909 the Insanity Law was consolidated in chapter 27 of the Consolidated Laws of New York.[29]
The department was established in 1926–1927 with the original name being Office of mental hygiene; as part of a restructuring of the New York state government, and was given responsibility for people diagnosed with mental retardation, mental illness or epilepsy.[30][31][2] Dr. Frederick W. Parsons was appointed the first department commissioner in January, 1927.[32] He was replaced by Dr. William J. Tiffany in 1937, who then resigned in 1943 over an investigation into handling of an outbreak of amoebic dysentery at Creedmoor State Hospital.[33] By 1950, the department had grown into the largest agency of the New York state government, with more than 24,000 employees and an operating cost exceeding a third of the state budget.[34] The state acceded to the Interstate Compact on Mental Health in 1956.
The Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse was transferred from the New York State Department of Health to the Department of Mental Hygiene in 1962.[35] In 1972 the Mental Hygiene Law was revised and reenacted.[36] In 1978, the Department of Mental Hygiene was reorganized into the autonomous Office of Mental Health (OMH), Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD).[37][2] These three offices are headed up by a commissioner who also serves on a council that performs inter-office coordination.[2] In 2010 the OMRDD became the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD).[38][39][40] In 2019 the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse became the Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS).[41][42][43]
^ abcdWard, Robert B. (2006). New York State government. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series (2nd ed.). SUNY Press. pp. 328–329. ISBN 1-930912-16-1.
^Eide, Stephen (November 2018). Systems Under Strain: Deinstitutionalization in New York State and City (Report). Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. pp. 5, 8, 10, 11–12.
^SAMHSA (25 June 2021). "2020 Uniform Reporting System (URS) Table For New York".
^ ab"Staffing: Increasing the mental health care workforce in New York State" (PDF). OMH News. No. Winter 2022. NYS Office of Mental Health. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
^Guidance on Eligible Workforce Funding Activities (Enhanced FMAP) (PDF) (Report). NYS Office of Mental Health. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
^"Governor Hochul Highlights $1 Billion Plan to Overhaul New York State's Continuum of Mental Health Care" (Press release). Albany, NY: Governor of New York. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^"An act to authorize the establishment of the New-York state lunatic asylum". Laws of New York. 59th sess.: 110–111. 1836. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090740717. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 82, enacted 30 March 1836, effective immediately.
^"An act to authorize the establishment of a State Asylum for the chronic insane, and for the better care of the insane poor, to be known as 'The Willard Asylum for the Insane.'". Laws of New York. 88th sess.: 562–565. 1865. hdl:2027/nyp.33433090738380. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 342, enacted 8 April 1865, effective immediately.
^"An act changing the name of the several state asylums for the insane". Laws of New York. 113th sess.: 313–314. 1890. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 132, enacted 18 April 1890, effective immediately.
^ abKatz, Michael B. (1996). In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse: A Social History Of Welfare In America (2nd ed.). Basic Books. p. 103-104. ISBN 9780465024520.
^"An act to promote the care and curative treatment of the pauper and indigent insane…". Laws of New York. 113th sess.: 303–308. 1890. ISSN 0892-287X. Chapter 126, enacted 15 April 1890, effective immediately.
^ abCastellani, Paul J. (2005). From snake pits to cash cows: politics and public institutions in New York. SUNY Press. p. 31. ISBN 0-7914-6439-3.
^Pressman, Jack D. (2002). Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine. Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52459-8.
^Pecorella, Robert F.; Stonecash, Jeffrey M. (2006). Governing New York State (5th ed.). SUNY Press. pp. 335–336. ISBN 0-7914-6691-4.
^"Governor Paterson Announces OMRDD to Become Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD)" (Press release). Albany, NY: Governor of New York. 13 July 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
^L. 2010, c. 168, enacted 13 July 2010. A11197, 2009-2010 legislative session.
^"NYS OASAS Announces Name Change From the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to the Office of Addiction Services and Supports" (Press release). OASAS. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
^L. 2019, c. 281, enacted 13 September 2019. A7347, 2019-2020 legislative session.
^Brooks, Clayton McClure (2008). A legacy of leadership: governors and American history. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8122-4094-8.
^"Newton Bigelow, 87, Mental Health Official". The New York Times. February 9, 1991. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
^"In memoriam, Paul H. Hoch, M.D.". Psychiatric Quarterly. 39 (1): 140–141. 1965. doi:10.1007/BF01569455. S2CID 20999071.
"The Policy Revolution, 1945–1965". Mental Health in New York State, 1945–1998. New York State Archives, New York State Education Department. Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
External linksedit
New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH)
Office of Mental Health on DATA.NY.GOV
New York State Office of Mental Health recipient profile on USAspending.gov