St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester Receives Local Initiative Grant from State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer
04/21/2006
Media Contact: Terri Ezekiel, (914) 925-5051
tezekiel@svcmcny.org
Harrison, New York (July 19, 2005)- St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester has received a $10,000 New York State Local Initiative grant from State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer.
The funds will be used to renovate the hospital's day treatment room for adolescents in the partial hospital program. The program offers daily mental health treatment services for adolescents who need a more intensive level of services, but who are able to return home every day.
'This grant will allow us to improve the environment of care provided to our neediest adolescents and their families,' said Dr. Brian Fitzsimmons, executive director for behavioral health services.
'I am very pleased that this grant will be used to help adolescents who are undergoing mental health treatment,' said Senator Oppenheimer. 'It's so important that adolescents with mental health issues get back to school and to their day-to-day lives as quickly as possible.'
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient mental health and chemical dependency services for children, adolescent, adults and their families. Specialized programs include bilingual, bicultural Latino treatment services, programs for individuals dually diagnosed with mental illness and developmental disabilities, and age-specific programs for children, adolescents, seniors and their families.
St. Vincent's Westchester is part of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, one of the New York metropolitan area's most comprehensive health care systems, serving nearly 600,000 people annually. SVCMC was established in 2000 as a result of the merger of Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn and Queens, Saint Vincents Hospital and Medical Center of New York and Sisters of Charity Healthcare in Staten Island. Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Sisters of Charity of New York, SVCMC serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City.
The system includes seven hospitals: Mary Immaculate Hospital, Queens; St. John's Queens Hospital; St. Mary's Hospital of Brooklyn; St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan; St. Vincent's Hospital Staten Island; Bayley Seton Hospital, Staten Island; and St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester. Resources include over 3,000 physicians, four skilled nursing facilities, a system-wide home care service, a hospice and over 60 ambulatory care sites which provide a broad array of medical, psychiatric and substance abuse services. In 2004, SVCMC recorded over 92,000 inpatient discharges, more than 1,100,000 outpatient visits, and 640,000 home care visits. Its emergency rooms, which include three Level 1 trauma centers, received 255,000 visits in that same year, while SVCMC is the largest private provider of EMS services in the New York City Fire Department's 9-1-1 service. Also in 2003, St. Clare's Hospital, now St. Vincent's Midtown, became affiliated with the healthcare system.
