Mayor Eric Adams continues to defend his new plan for dealing with New Yorkers suffering mental illness amid concerns over what the plan will look like. The policy change calls for involuntarily hospitalizing individuals suffering with mental illness.

Adams says it’s an effort to make the streets and subways safer, but critics of the plan raised concerns over NYPD officers making determinations about a person’s ability to take care of themselves. And it’s not yet clear whether hospitals in the city are capable of receiving a possible influx of new patients.

The latest figures from the state’s office of Mental Health show here in the five boroughs there are more than 2,500 beds in city hospitals. There are about another 1,350 beds in the office of mental health’s psychiatric centers.

Hundreds of those beds have been offline due to the COVID-19 pandemic and beds at state-run and private facilities, along with hospitals in the city, have been declining for the last decade.

Dr. Oxiris Barbot, a former city health commissioner under Mayor Bill de Blasio and the president and CEO of the nonprofit United Hospital Fund, joined Errol Louis on "Inside City Hall" Tuesday to offer her perspective on the plan as someone with experience running the city's sprawling health care bureaucracy.

On Wednesday at 7 a.m., Adams will join NY1's "Mornings on 1" to discuss his plan and his vision for how it will move forward.