{"id":145478,"date":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145478\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-launches-bridge-to-home-hells-kitchen-facility-for-severely-mentally-ill-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145478\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams launches ‘Bridge to Home’ Hell\u2019s Kitchen facility for severely mentally ill New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Eric Adams<\/a> on Tuesday launched a new facility in Hell\u2019s Kitchen that will house severely mentally ill New Yorkers and connect them to city services.<\/p>\n

The \u201cBridge to Home\u201d pilot program, which was first announced by the mayor in his State of the City address in January, will aim to help those who have been discharged from psychiatric facilities but who are still not ready to live independently.<\/p>\n

The initiative \u2014 part of a $13 million pilot program run by Health + Hospitals, officials previously said \u2014 will be located at the newly-opened site on West 36th Street near Tenth Avenue, about a block from the Javits Center.<\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams launched a new facility in accordance with the \u201cBridge to Home\u201d pilot program in Hell\u2019s Kitchen. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

It will offer individual rooms, three square meals a day and wraparound mental health services to 46 residents when at full capacity, City Hall officials said.<\/p>\n

The first residents are set to arrive by the end of the week, with service ramping up in the months ahead, the officials said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the transitionary program will provide 100 beds to New Yorkers who need help to stay on top of their meds and treatment post-release.<\/p>\n

The Adams administration argues the initiative will help reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and inpatient hospitalizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that too many New Yorkers are cycling between a revolving door system of our emergency rooms when they\u2019re dealing with severe medical issues and mental health issues, and they\u2019re back out on our streets repeatedly,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

The program, which was first announced in January, will house mentally ill New Yorkers while providing them with city services. Stephen Yang for the New York Post<\/p>\n

The $13 million pilot program is being operated by Health + Hospitals, as the first official site opened up at West 36th Street near Tenth Avenue. Getty Images<\/p>\n

City Hall aims to open a second \u201cBridge to Home\u201d facility with approximately 50 beds by fall 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Adams, who is running for re-election as an independent, has proposed policies like giving doctors the ability to commit drug addicts into treatment<\/a> against their will and reviving a Bloomberg-era policy to evict rule-breaking homeless shelter residents .<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no dignity in living in an encampment, living on the streets, particularly with substance abuse issues and severe mental health issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday launched a new facility in Hell\u2019s Kitchen that will house severely mentally ill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[10767,97,90192,12589,90193,259,2598,260,5871,90194,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-145478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eric-adams","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-hells-kitchen","11":"tag-homelessness","12":"tag-javits-center","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mental-illness","15":"tag-mentalhealth","16":"tag-metro","17":"tag-shelters","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}