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...

PTSD Among Veterans: A Signature Wound that Desperately Needs Healing

• By: Kimberly Williams, LMSW Jason Hansman MHA-NYC
• January 1st, 2013
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Veterans returning to civilian life from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from tragically high rates of mental and substance use disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a hallmark injury among returning veterans, with a prevalence rate of approximately 20 percent—a rate two...