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NYS CQC issues Adult Homes Serving Residents with Mental Illness: A Study on Layering of Services. This report described a common condition of multiple practitioners and providers – primary care and specialty physicians, medical and mental health clinics, private psychiatrists, nursing services and home health care aides – located on-site in adult homes and acting independently of each other. The open-ended expansion of services, rendered to a captive adult home population, invites in intensity of care which is expensive, uncoordinated and, in some cases unnecessary