By Josephine Stratman
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — The Adams administration is planning to resign the city’s non-police mental health response team program , or B-HEARD, shifting it from the purview of the FDNY, City Hall announced Friday.
Under the changes announced by City Hall, NYC Health + Hospitals , which currently operates the program with FDNY, would entirely run the program.
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“This new model for B-HEARD will allow our FDNY EMTs the opportunity to focus further on other emergency response units as part of our city’s efforts to improve ambulance response times and use our resources more efficiently, while still addressing mental health emergencies we continue to see playin

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