About this Recovery House
Hope Haven Center is a coed recovery residence at 16 Bank Street in Batavia, New York, the seat of Genesee County. Rochester Regional Health runs it as a twenty-two bed inpatient addiction rehabilitation unit at the Jerome Medical Center, staffed around the clock and open to patients of all genders.
A Twenty-Two Bed Recovery Home for Acute Substance Use Disorder
Hope Haven is a secured residential unit for people whose substance use has reached the point where outpatient care will not hold. Twenty-two beds, two people to a room, with a multidisciplinary team of medical and mental health professionals working the unit. Nursing care runs twenty-four hours a day and a physician is available as needed, which is what distinguishes this level of care from a peer-run sober house. Someone arriving with medical complications, withdrawal risk or a psychiatric condition alongside the addiction is inside a hospital system, with the whole system behind the unit.
What a Day in This Recovery Housing Program Looks Like
Programming runs from morning to evening. Evidence-based group therapy sessions form the backbone, with individual therapy weekly and recreational activities built into the schedule. Groups, meals and recreation happen in shared rooms, so residents spend their days with the same people they sleep near, which is how a unit builds the peer element into a clinical setting. Care is described as person-centered, meaning the plan is written for the individual instead of assigned from a template.
Serving All Genders in One Sober Living Unit
The center welcomes patients of all genders. Coed residential treatment is less common than single-gender programs in New York, and it has a specific advantage: a person does not have to wait for a bed that matches their gender in a county where beds of any kind are scarce. Sleeping arrangements are managed by the unit, and the shared spaces are supervised throughout the day.
Recovery Housing in Batavia and Genesee County
Batavia is the county seat and the only city in Genesee County, sitting midway between Buffalo and Rochester on the Thruway corridor. It holds the county courthouse, county social services, the United Memorial Medical Center campus and the VA medical center. Genesee County is farm country in every direction from the city, and residential addiction treatment capacity across rural western New York is thin, so a twenty-two bed unit here serves a catchment reaching well past the county line into Wyoming, Orleans and eastern Erie counties.
Rochester Regional Health Recovery Homes in Western New York
Hope Haven is one of several addiction services Rochester Regional Health runs across western New York and the Finger Lakes. The system also operates inpatient addiction treatment at its Behavioral Health Center in Rochester, along with outpatient treatment, medication-assisted treatment and outpatient detox. A person finishing at Hope Haven can be stepped down to outpatient care inside the same health system, so the medical record, the prescriber and the treatment plan travel with them.
