NYS Office of Mental Health Statistics and Reports

Online Access to OMH Statistical Data

Adult Housing – The Adult Housing web page presents the Residential Program Indicators (RPI) report. The RPI is a performance measurement reporting tool for adult housing programs in New York State. Viewers can use indicators in the report to evaluate agency residential programs, based on county, regional, and statewide averages.

Assertive Community Treatment Reports - The ACT web page provides an overview of the ACT program, and up-to-date statistical data on program operations, the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of ACT recipients, and recipient outcomes. Statewide, regional, county and program-level data are available.

Cover of Assisted Outpatient Treatment report also known as Kendra's Law

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Reports - Up-to-date statistical data on AOT program operations, the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of AOT recipients, and outcomes for AOT recipients. Statewide, regional and county-level data are available.

Balanced Scorecard - The OMH Balanced Scorecard allows anyone to view and assess the agency's progress toward achieving its strategic goals. The Scorecard uses up-to-date quantitative data to compare actual performance against specific measurable targets. Content areas include outcomes experienced by individuals served in the NYS public mental health system, results of public mental health efforts undertaken by OMH, and critical indicators of organizational performance. The OMH Balanced Scorecard is updated quarterly.

The Children, Teens and Families Indicators Portal expands the availability of data driven measures on youth and family services in New York State. This Portal includes provider level dynamic reports using information that providers report into CAIRS, and static HTML reports using information that youth and families submit to OMH through the NYS OMH Youth and Family Assessment of Care surveys. The CAIRS reports compare each indicator by program type and program unit and over time (2002 to the present). The NYS OMH Youth and Family Assessment of Care static reports are included from the 2006, 2007 and 2008 survey cycles.

Clinic-Plus Services Statistics - Child and Family Clinic-Plus is an innovative program designed to improve the emotional well-being of children. The Clinic-Plus portal displays cumulative quarterly services reports starting with April-June 2007. It includes reports on the numbers of children screened, receiving comprehensive assessments, admitted to clinic treatment, and receiving in-home treatment. Additional reports display State and provider level operational information. Data in the reports are updated daily and quarterly.

Patient Characteristics Survey (PCS) Portal - The PCS provides a comprehensive one–week "snapshot" of the population served by New York State's public mental health system. View demographic, clinical, and service-related information for each person who receives a mental health service during the specified one–week period using the dynamic Portal Summary or Planning Reports. The Summary reports describe client characteristics and the Planning reports present penetration rates and national outcome measures. Historic reports provide data from surveys extending back to 1999.

PCS 2009 Data Collection - PCS data are critically important to OMH and local governments for mental health program planning and evaluation activities. Results from the PCS are presented in the publically accessible PCS Portal.

Programs funded or licensed by OMH will report client-level demographic, clinical, and service descriptions for persons they served during the week of the survey. All survey data are submitted to OMH electronically using the Web-based PCS application. This page provides mental health providers with information about the 2009 survey timeframe and requirements for preparing for and obtaining access to the Web-based PCS application.

OMH Report Documents (available online in Adobe Acrobat and HTML formats)

Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Program Evaluation – The 2005 reauthorization of New York State’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment program required an independent evaluation of the program’s implementation and effectiveness. The evaluation was released June 30, 2009 and was completed by the Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; the MacArthur Foundation; and Policy Research Associates.

Cover of An OMH Assessment of Clinical Care, Professional Workforce, Research, and Local Government Opportunities (2007)

An OMH Assessment of Clinical Care, Professional Workforce, Research, and Local Government Opportunities (2007) - This report is an assessment of key opportunities and challenges that New York State faces with regard to quality clinical mental health care. The report's themes and recommendations will be used as a clinical policy guidepost by OMH Medical Director Lloyd I. Sederer, M.D. in his work with OMH staff, facilities and institutes, with OMH constituents and community colleagues, and with sister government agencies at the county and state level.

Report On Rural Initiatives 2007 – Chapter 212 of the Laws of 1994 amended the Executive Law by adding a new Section 164-b. The section established a framework for reporting how certain State agencies, including the Office of Mental Health (OMH), address rural needs and conditions.

2009–2013 Statewide Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services
Required under Mental Hygiene Law, the Statewide Comprehensive Plan this year focuses on the strategic direction of OMH, which is continuing to move toward transformation supported by care premised upon recovery and resiliency principles. From the ground up, what can we do - at every level of the mental health system - to build empowering, person-centered services? Individual journeys to recovery are included throughout the plan, illustrating that small but thoughtful changes can have a powerful impact.

The Children’s Plan: Improving the Social and Emotional Well Being of New York’s Children and Their Families (PDF) – The Children’s Plan is intended to communicate the collective vision of families, youth, providers, teachers, child care workers and caring adults promoting the social and emotional development of all of New York’s young people. The information and recommendations contained in the Plan are both visionary and practical. The Plan is designed to engage all New Yorkers in supporting the social and emotional development of children, including both the promotion of mental health and the treatment of children with emotional disturbance.

2008 Annual Report on the Implementation of Mental Hygiene Law Article 10 (PDF) – The Office of Mental Health has submitted to Governor Paterson and the Legislature, the second annual report on the implementation of Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law. Article 10 became effective in April 2007, and was enacted as part of New York's Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act. The report provides a brief history of civil management in New York State, reviews the assessment and treatment of individuals, summarizes the challenges faced since its enactment, and makes recommendations for improvement.

2007 Annual Report To The Governor and Legislature of New York State On Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs – Psychiatric emergency care in New York State was historically provided primarily in the emergency rooms of general hospitals and often resulted in overcrowded emergency rooms and over-utilized acute inpatient hospitalization services.

Geriatric Mental Health & Chemical Dependence: Annual Report - The Annual Report on Geriatric Mental Health and Chemical Dependence presents a long-term plan regarding the geriatric and chemical dependence needs of New Yorkers and recommendations to address those needs. It is jointly submitted to the Governor and Legislature of New York State each year by the Commissioner of Mental Health, the Commissioner of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, the Director of the Division of Veteran's Affairs, the Adjutant General and the Director of the State Office for Aging.

Mental Health Outpatient Reimbursement Study - This report reviews the financing and reimbursement of mental health services provided by outpatient clinic, continuing day treatment, and day treatment programs licensed under Article 31 of the Mental Hygiene Law. The report was commissioned by the Legislature in the 2006-07 state budget. Work on the report was carried out by Public Consulting Group (PCG), under contract with the Office of Mental Health.

Progress Report on the Recommendations from the People First Forums (PDF)

The "People First Forums" were held across the State in five locations during the spring and summer of 2007 by the Commissioners of Health (DOH), Mental Health (OMH), Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), and Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS). The forums provided an opportunity for individuals with multiple needs, and their caregivers, to describe their needs and issues in navigating State and local service systems to receive necessary services. More than 2,200 consumers, family members, providers, community members, and local government representatives attended one or more of the forums.

Impact of Timothy’s Law in New York State

Timothy’s Law, which took effect on January 1, 2007, requires insurers issuing group or school blanket health insurance policies or contracts in New York to provide a minimum of 30 inpatient days and 20 outpatient visits (30/20 benefit) for the treatment of mental health conditions. Timothy’s Law also requires large group health insurance policies to provide coverage for adults and children diagnosed with biologically based mental illnesses and children diagnosed with serious emotional disturbances at the same level of coverage as is provided for other health conditions. As required by Timothy’s Law, the Superintendent of Insurance, in consultation with the Office of Mental Health (OMH) has studied the law’s impact and issued a report on the cost and effectiveness of mental health parity legislation in New York.

Incident Reports and Root Cause Analyses 2002-2008: What They Reveal About Suicides

OMH holds a wealth of information provided by programs it licenses and operates, describing how they responded to serious incidents. In this report we share the responses programs shared with us in their root cause analyses and recommendations for improvement as they looked back on inpatient suicides and suicides within 72 hours of discharge–among the most distressing events faced by mental health clinicians.