The pending closure of Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., would overburden the remaining providers of psychiatric care in the city, according to a report by Public Advocate and New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio.
The report, "Tearing the Safety Net: The Devastating Impact of Losing Brooklyn's Largest Private Psychiatric Provider," notes that Interfaith is the largest private provider and third largest overall provider of inpatient psychiatric care in Brooklyn. Its 120 inpatient psychiatric beds operate at 95.7 percent on average, according to the report.
The hospital's closure, which has been delayed until at least Sept. 11, would create a 7 percent deficit in capacity for inpatient psychiatric care, based on 2011 data. In other words, the number of patients seeking inpatient psychiatric care would be 107 percent of the inpatient psychiatric capacity of 2011, according to the report.
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