Saint Joseph's Medical Center

About Saint Joseph's Medical Center

Saint Joseph's Medical Center is a sober living operator in Port Chester, New York, running certified recovery housing in Westchester County. Based in Yonkers, the medical center operates community residences for people in recovery alongside a broader set of behavioral health and residential services in the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City.

A Hospital-Based Recovery Housing Provider

Recovery housing run by a medical center works differently from housing run by a landlord or a small nonprofit. Clinical staff are employees of the same institution, so a medical or psychiatric problem inside the residence is handled without a referral into a stranger's system. The institution carries the licensure, the compliance obligations and the record-keeping, and a resident's care in the residence connects to care elsewhere in the organization. For someone with a long medical history behind years of substance use, that continuity is the practical argument.

Where These Westchester County Sober Homes Are

The operator's chemical dependence recovery housing is in Port Chester, in southeastern Westchester County:

• A twenty-bed certified residence at 18 Spring Street in Port Chester, certified under the state's residential services regulations.
• A short-term transitional community residence in Port Chester for women, staffed around the clock.

The organization also runs community residences on Staten Island serving adults with serious mental illness and adults with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders, which sit alongside the addiction recovery housing in its residential portfolio.

Women's Recovery Homes and Round-the-Clock Care

The transitional residence serves chemically dependent women making the move to abstinent living, in a structured, supervised environment with twenty-four hour care. Single-gender housing with overnight staffing is the scarcest kind of recovery housing in the Lower Hudson Valley, and it serves the women for whom an apartment program would be too much independence too soon.

Certification Behind This Sober Living Operator

New York imposes no certification requirement on recovery residences. The operator's Port Chester residence is certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports under the state's residential services regulations, which means an approved scope of services, inspection, reviewable records and a complaint route outside the program. What that certification covers, and how it differs from the state's recovery residence track, is explained in this guide to certifying with OASAS in New York.

Reaching This Lower Hudson Valley Recovery Housing Provider

Referrals and applications go through the medical center's behavioral health services. Useful questions at the operator level: how it decides which residence fits an applicant, how long it has run chemical dependence housing in Westchester County, what referral relationships it holds with hospitals and the county, how insurance and county funding are applied, how medication for opioid use disorder is handled across its residences, and how a complaint escalates past a program director. A hospital-based operator should answer each without hesitation.