New York’s Maimonides Health Secures Funding To Enhance Behavioral Health Services In Brooklyn 

Brooklyn, New York-based Maimonides Health received three grants totaling more than $17 million to offer additional behavioral health services.;It will establish a new Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) and in-patient adolescent unit in South Brooklyn to address behavioral health crisis. The grants were from;the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), Healthfirst, and Fidelis Care. ;

OMH awarded Maimonides $6 million toward the CPEP, which will;include triage, observation, care, treatment, and referrals in an environment distinct from the general emergency room. OMH also awarded Maimonides $5 million toward the establishment of . . .