CAP PC Psychiatric Consultations Extended to ALL Family Physicians

Project TEACH

Project TEACH provides rapid consultation, education and training, and referral/ linkage services to primary care physicians statewide who provide care for children and adolescents with mental health disorders.  These resources are provided through two programs:

 

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Primary Care (CAP PC) is a collaboration among five university based sites across the state.
  • The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Education and Support (C.A.P.E.S.) Program for Primary Care Physicians provides resources in the eastern New York, Capital District area. 

 

 

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Primary Care
Strengthening and integrating the relationship between community-based primary care providers and child psychiatry

As of January 25th, 2011 ALL PCPs across New York State* can use the following services:
• Real time access to CAP PC child and adolescent psychiatrists for phone consultation support 5 days a week (excluding holidays) from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
• Access to CAP PC Liaison Coordinators to assist with linkage and referral to specialty child mental health services.

Even where I practice in Boston, which has the highest number of physicians per capita in the United States, the shortage of child psychiatrists is a crisis… I see kids everyday who are on waiting lists to see a psychiatrist, and they show up in my emergency department after they have had [an emergency] or been discharged from school. No one will prescribe their medication, and I don't have the training to manage complex psychiatric illnesses in children. This is really at crisis levels, and there are so many children suffering as a result.
--Samantha Rossman, MD  Pediatric ER Physician testifying to AMA 2010

The New York State Office of Mental Health, in coordination with District II of AAP and the NYSAFP, have responded to meet the mental health needs of the State’s children and families by creating CAP PC - a collaboration between the Departments of Psychiatry at the University at Buffalo, University of Rochester, Columbia University, SUNY Upstate, and Long Island Jewish/North Shore University.

IMPORTANT NOTE: CAP PC’s phone line is intended for the use of physicians only and is not for use by parents of patients.  It is not intended to meet the needs of children with emergency needs but we will assist with referrals of these cases.  

It’s Easy!
1. Fill out the Agreement to Participate and Fax it to 716-859-5589 (Click here to download Agreement )
2. Call our toll-free number 1-855 CAPPC72 (227-7272) with your questions about children in your practice with mental health needs.

(Please note:  CAP PC is not intended to meet the needs of children with emergency needs but we will assist with referrals of these cases.)

Supplemental Information:

For more information contact these CAP PC child psychiatrists:

Western New York      
David Kaye MD
U. at Buffalo
Women/Children’s Hosp
P (716)887-5775
dlkaye@buffalo.edu

Rochester area       
Jim Wallace, M.D.
U. of Rochester
Rochester, N.Y.
P (585)273-2561
James_Wallace@URMC.Rochester.edu 

Central NY
Terri Hargrave, M.D.
SUNY Upstate
Syracuse, N.Y.
P (315)464-3266
kipterri4@yahoo.com

NYC and Hudson Valley         
Rachel Zuckerbrot MD
Columbia U.
N.Y., N.Y.
P (212) 543-2628
zuckerbr@childpsych.columbia.edu

Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens 
Carmel Foley MD
Cohen Child. Med. Ctr
New Hyde Park, NY
P (516) 470-3550
cfoley@lij.edu

*PCPs in the Albany and north region are not eligible for CAP PC but may participate in the CAPES program.  Please contact Jeff Daly MD at 518-584-3600  or http://www.capesprogram.org/