Bridge to Home: Creating an Innovative Pathway From Psychiatric Inpatient Care to Permanent Housing and Longer-Term Wellbeing

• By: Jason Hansman Chris Keeley NYC Health + Hospitals
• July 29th, 2026
• behavioral health services, discharge planning, homelessness, NYC Health + Hospitals, permanent supportive housing, psychiatric inpatient care, serious mental illness, Summer 2026 Issue, transitional housing
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For many New Yorkers living with serious mental illness, leaving the hospital does not mean they will find stability. Instead, discharge often marks the beginning of another unfortunate cycle — from psychiatric units to shelters, from shelters back to emergency rooms, and sometimes back to the...