The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides assistance for family members of mental health patients who do not follow their treatment plans and also present a high risk to themselves or others.

Each borough has Assisted Outpatient Treatment personnel available where a patient can be ordered to follow a treatment plan or be involuntarily admitted into a hospital.

  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Bronx:  (347) 396-7375
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Brooklyn/Staten Island:  (347) 396-7374
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Manhattan:  (347) 396-7373
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment Queens:  (347) 396-7004

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