Brown: New York State Early Intervention Hub Needs to be Fixed
Assemblyman Keith Brown (R,C-Northport) attends a press conference on the Million Dollar Staircase in Albany on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, calling for New York state’s early intervention database to be fixed.
Assemblyman Keith Brown (R,C-Northport) joined Assemblywoman Jodi Giglio (R,C-Riverhead) and other Assembly Minority Conference members, as well as local advocates from Long Island and service providers in the early intervention field at a press conference on the Million Dollar Staircase in Albany earlier today. Their mission was to shed light on the significant issues plaguing the new Early Intervention Hub (EI-Hub)—a data system designed to manage the Early Intervention Program (EIP) for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities—and voice the impact such issues have had on children, families and service providers statewide.
Brown and other Minority Assemblymembers are also calling on the Department of Health to fully investigate New York State’s decision to award a contract to Public Consulting Group (PCG) to build the EI-Hub given the extensive issues and technological failures present in the database that have caused service interruptions for children and payment delays for providers.
“The issues present in the EI-Hub must be addressed and fixed immediately to prevent any further delays in both care for young children with disabilities and payment for providers,” said Brown. “So many families statewide rely on this system to help bring their children the therapies, medical care and support they require, and PCG’s version of this system is failing New Yorkers. I fully support my Assembly Minority colleagues as well as concerned parents and service providers in early intervention services—we must call on the Department of Health to investigate why these issues are happening and identify what can be done to fix them.”