Mercy Medical Center

About Mercy Medical Center

Mercy Medical Center is a sober living operator in Nassau County, New York, running certified recovery homes in Uniondale and Freeport. Part of the Catholic Health system on Long Island, it operates a residential continuum that runs from short-term stabilization through long-term reintegration housing.

A Hospital System Running Long Island Recovery Housing

Recovery housing attached to a hospital works differently from housing run by a standalone landlord. Medical problems get handled by clinicians who work for the same organization. Withdrawal, psychiatric symptoms and the chronic conditions that follow years of substance use do not require a resident to find a new doctor. The hospital connection also means the residences are funded and monitored inside a large regulated institution, with the record-keeping that implies.

Sober Homes Across Uniondale and Freeport

Three residential addiction programs carry the Mercy Medical Center name in Nassau County:

• Recovery House, at 526 Greengrove Avenue in Uniondale, a twenty-two bed reintegration residence for men, with average stays of six to nine months.
• Mercy Hall, at 95 Pine Street in Freeport, a twenty-two bed reintegration residence for women, with average stays of eight to twelve months.
• New Hope, at 150 Buffalo Avenue in Freeport, a short-term stabilization residence for adults, with average stays of about two weeks.

The three sit within a few miles of each other in central and southern Nassau County, and they cover different stages of the same journey.

Men's and Women's Recovery Homes Kept Separate

The two long-stay reintegration residences are single-gender households, one for men in Uniondale and one for women in Freeport. Keeping the split at the house level means house rules, groups and shared space are written for one population, and a resident is never the only man or the only woman in the building. The stabilization program in Freeport serves adults of any gender, which fits a stay measured in days.

A Nassau County Sober Living Operator, for Nassau County Residents

All three programs require verification of Nassau County residency within the past six months. That single rule defines the operator's footprint more sharply than any map. Someone with a Nassau address leaving detox, jail or a hospital has a full continuum available inside one organization. Someone from Suffolk County, Queens or upstate will be referred somewhere else, and knowing that before calling saves a week.

State Certification Behind These Recovery Residences

All three residences are certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports under the state's residential services regulations. New York requires no certification at all for a recovery residence, so a certified program has accepted inspection, an approved scope of services and an outside complaint route it could have declined. The difference between the state's treatment certification and its recovery residence track is explained in this New York sober house certification guide.

Reaching This Long Island Recovery Housing Provider

Admissions run through the medical center's addiction services. The individual houses do not take applications on their own. Useful questions at the operator level: how a resident moves between the three programs without reapplying from scratch, how insurance and county funding are handled, whether medication for opioid use disorder continues across the continuum, and how a complaint escalates past a program director. A hospital-based provider should have documented answers to each.