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New York City nearly tripled the number of nurses on staff at its agency for the homeless and was sending more clinicians into the subways with the power to order involuntary removals of people with mental illness and hospitalize them for up to 72 hours.
In the NYC subway: Rising assault, mental illness and a nurse who decides when to intervene
Amid calls to make the transit system safer, her mission is to treat people with severe mental illness whom many riders have come to fear.
wapo.st
April 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New York City nearly tripled the number of nurses on staff at its agency for the homeless and was sending more clinicians into the subways with the power to order involuntary removals of people with mental illness and hospitalize them for up to 72 hours.