NYC Health + Hospitals announced the accomplishments of the second year of its comprehensive three-year plan to strengthen and expand its behavioral health services. The 2025 Behavioral Health Annual Progress Report details the advancement of initiatives to build capacity and resilience into the city’s behavioral health workforce and services.
Specifically, the report tracks progress in 2025 across the blueprint’s six core strategies: restoring and maximizing inpatient capacity; expanding access to outpatient services; increasing services to special populations; enhancing social work, care management, and peer services; preventing violence and increasing safety; and building the behavioral health workforce. This progress is due in part to philanthropic investment, which has enabled the health care system to launch and expand innovative clinical programs while strengthening recruitment, retention, and career advancement across behavioral health service lines and expand access timely, high-quality behavioral health care.
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The announcement builds upon the three-year plan announced in 2024, the Behavioral Health Blueprint: Turning Crisis into Opportunity, and adds to the track record of accomplishments detailed in the 2024 Behavioral Health Annual Progress Report. NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest provider of behavioral health care in New York City. The health care system provides almost 60% of behavioral health services citywide, has a behavioral health workforce of about 5,700 employees, and serves over 82,000 patients annually across emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care.
“Our accomplishments reflect that excellence in behavioral health care is at the heart of NYC Health + Hospitals’ mission as we serve all New Yorkers, without exception,” said NYC Health + Hospitals System Chief of Behavioral Health Services Omar Fattal, MD, MPH.“At a pivotal moment for behavioral health in our city and our country, we are proud to advance our strategic vision. We are strengthening our commitment to delivering outstanding behavioral health services across the full continuum of care, including serving the majority of New Yorkers with complex behavioral health needs. This progress report highlights the actions we have taken to move that work forward a second year in a row under our behavioral health blueprint.”
In 2025, NYC Health + Hospitals delivered the following accomplishments from its Behavioral Health Blueprint:
- Increased Inpatient Capacity
- Expanded Outpatient Access
- Increased Services for Special Populations
- Enhanced Social Work, Care Management, and Peer Services
- Prevented Violence and Increased Safety
- Developed the Health System’s Workforce
