United States Department of Veterans Affairs

VA NY Harbor Healthcare System

Mental Health

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VA NY Harbor Healthcare System offers a comprehensive program of Mental Health (MH) services that are recovery oriented and veteran-centered. Our program addresses a wide spectrum of MH needs across a range of MH settings, including emergency services, inpatient and residential care, intensive ambulatory programs and other outpatient care. We focus in particular on MH issues of concern to veterans such as PTSD, military sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse treatment and psychosocial recovery aimed at helping veterans return to meaningful and productive lives in their community.

These services and the geographic locations where they are provided within VA NY Harbor Healthcare System are as follows:
  • Emergency Department Psychiatric Evaluation - Brooklyn and Manhattan
  • Inpatient acute psychiatry - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Residential Treatment (Substance Abuse) - Brooklyn
  • Residential Treatment for Homeless Veterans - St. Albans
  • Psychosocial Rehabilitation & Recovery Center - Brooklyn
  • Opiate Treatment Programs - 16th St Manhattan satellite clinic & Brooklyn
  • Ambulatory Substance abuse Treatment - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Outpatient PTSD clinical treatment teams - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • General MH clinics - Brooklyn, Manhattan, St. Albans, Chapel Street, Staten Island
  • Primary Care Integrated Mental Health (MH in primary care settings) - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Compensated Work Therapy - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Homeless Program - all sites
  • Mental Health Intensive Case Management - Chapel Street
  • Clubhouses - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Health Psychology - Brooklyn & Manhattan
  • Neuropsychological assessment - Brooklyn, Manhattan, St. Albans

NYHHS Mental Health Contacts
Dennis Mahoney, LCSW
MHICM Coordinator
718-439-4316
917-626-6163

Jake Fondie, LCSW
Chief Community & Social Services
718-836-1371

Mental Health Clinics
• Brooklyn: 718-836-6600 x6817
• New York: 212-686-7500 x7979
• St. Albans 718-836-6600 x2309
• Staten Island: 718-761-2973
• Chapel Street: 718-439-4355

Social Work
• Brooklyn: 718-836-6600 x3411
• New York: 212-686-7500 x7875

Links
MH Handbook this is a PDF document
Mental Illness Center

Services

All VANYHHS Services
Barber Shop
Caregiver Support
Chaplain Service
Daycare Center
Emergency Department
Geriatric Research
Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Home Based Primary Care
Homeless Veterans
Hoptel Units
Hospice & Palliative Care
Library
Mental Health
Pharmacy
Returning Service Members
Research
Shuttle Bus Service
Social Work
St. Albans Community Living Ctr
Visual Impairment Program
Women's Health
Training
Family of Heroes
Congestive Heart Failure


Centralized Scheduling
1-877-877-9267

Nursing Helpline
1-866-940-2877

Pharmacy Call Center
1-888-207-2004

VA National Caregiver Support Line
1-855-260-3274
Mon-Fri 8am-11pm ET
Sat 10:30am-6pm ET
www.caregiver.va.gov



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