RUMC: Our Richmond University Campus is home to our administrative offices, a 30-bed Adult inpatient Psychiatry Unit, and a 11-bed Child/Adolescent Unit. This unit is attached to our main hospital and is a New York State-designated Stroke Center.  

South Beach Psychiatric Center: South Beach Psychiatric Center is one of 24 state-run psychiatric facilities in New York State.  They have 262 beds that make up multiple units in the facility.  Their units include Child and Adolescent, a Mandarin speaking unit, a Medically Complex Unit, and multiple Adult and Geriatric Inpatient units. 

Services Provided

• General Psychiatry: Our inpatient units, composed of a 30-bed, evaluate and stabilize adult patients in an acute phase of a psychiatric illness through intensive short-term inpatient treatment. Geriatric patients in need of inpatient care are also treated on this unit.

• Child & Adolescent Unit: The program offers comprehensive assessment and treatment for ages 3 to 18. Disorders such as conduct disturbances, depression and psychosis are treated in a structured environment, with an emphasis on family participation in treatment. A school program, staffed by state-certified teachers working closely with the pupil’s home school district, is an important component of the program.

• Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program: The Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program provides comprehensive evaluation, treatment, crisis intervention and extended observation to those with mental illness and/or substance abuse. It is the only CPEP on Staten Island and due to the limited number of CPEPs in the state, we receive high acuity and complex cases.  In addition, the CPEP has a Mobile Crisis Unit for crisis intervention and treatment which residents are able to rotate with.

• Psychiatry Consultation Liaison (Psychosomatic Medicine): Our dedicated consultation liaison psychiatric attending, along with our psychiatric residents, provides a 24-hour, comprehensive psychiatric consult service for all medical and surgical patients located at the RUMC campus.

• Evaluation & Referral Services: Everyone who comes to us for care receives a comprehensive evaluation, the first step in developing an individualized treatment plan, either by appointment or on a walk-in basis.

• Gambler’s Treatment Center: The Gambler’s Treatment Center offers gamblers, their families and other loved ones a comprehensive clinical program aimed at achieving abstinence from problem gambling and developing a better quality of life. Services include counseling, diagnostic and psychiatric services; vocational guidance; information and referral services; and education and training programs.

• Partial Hospitalization Program:  This a program that is a step down from and inpatient care.  They provide a variety of services that include a comprehensive psychiatric assessment, medication evaluation and management, group therapy, individual therapy and treatment planning, family support and transition to outpatient care.

• The Silberstein Center: Offers outpatient chemical dependency services, including: intensive day groups, evening groups; ACOA groups; acupuncture; aftercare services; family issues groups; and DWI evaluations. We offer oral and injectable buprenorphine treatment where appropriate for adult’s ages 18 or older that are struggling with an addiction to heroin or other opiates.  Treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorders where Vivitrol is also available.

• Adult Outpatient Program

• Child/Adolescent Outpatient Program