Beth Krafchik

Beth is a physician and clinician educator with New York City Health + Hospitals/ Correctional Health Services. Unexpectedly, having a background in Emergency Medicine and Palliative Medicine uniquely prepared her for the work with patients inside the city’s jails, where there are enormous rates of trauma and violence. Beth works closely with the Substance Use Treatment and the Young Adult Services teams - with this collaboration she has been able to track down the hardest to reach patients to advocate for them and their care, often in specific housing areas for security reasons related to previous violence.

 

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation’s leading correctional health care systems in quality of and innovations to care and access from pre-arraignment through compassionate release. Correctional Health Services is a pivotal partner in New York City’s criminal justice reform efforts, ranging from alternatives to incarceration to support of successful reentry into the community. In 2016, as a new division of NYC Health + Hospitals, Correctional Health Services became the direct provider of health care in the city’s jails.