Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center

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Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center
New York State Office of Mental Health
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Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center
Geography
Location2 First Avenue, Orangeburg, New York, United States
Coordinates 41°2′48″N73°58′9″W / 41.04667°N 73.96917°W / 41.04667; -73.96917
Organization
Care system Public
Type Psychiatric hospital
Services
Beds54 [1] [2]
Links
Lists Hospitals in New York State

Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center (RCPC) is a state-operated psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents in Orangeburg, New York, operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH). [3] It provides inpatient psychiatric care and a range of outpatient and community-based programs. [3]

Contents

Services

RCPC offers inpatient psychiatric treatment for youth ages 11–18 and an outpatient clinic, day treatment, intensive day treatment, and intensive case management services for ages 5–18. [3] It offers an intensive, short-term, family-based inpatient psychiatric treatment program. [4]

Facilities

The current inpatient facility is an acute psychiatric care facility completed in 2009, with a project size of 52,000 square feet and a project cost of $19 million. [5] Counties served include Rockland, Westchester, Orange, Sullivan, Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster.

Capacity and staffing

As of 2025, the facility has 54 beds and 111 full-time personnel. [1] [2] Reported annual admissions are 1,587. [3]

Former site

In 2011, local officials in the Town of Orangetown sought state authorization to purchase the former Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center property for redevelopment and economic development purposes. [6]

History

Proposed closure and conversion debate (2021)

In 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget included a plan to convert RCPC from a state-operated psychiatric center to a not-for-profit-operated model providing brief, intensive, community-based care. The proposal was described in the state fiscal reporting on the executive budget, threatening closure. [7] [8] Labor unions and elected officials publicly opposed the plan. [9]

A bipartisan group of state legislators and news commentators also urged the state to keep RCPC open. [10] In testimony submitted during the FY2021–2022 budget hearings, the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) stated that the executive budget proposed closing RCPC and argued that closure would reduce access to inpatient youth psychiatric services in the lower Hudson Valley. [11]

2025 inpatient bed expansion

In April 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York had opened 125 additional psychiatric beds at state-operated facilities, including at RCPC. [12] [13] [14]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center". FREIDA (Institution Directory). American Medical Association. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  2. 1 2 Redesigning Residential Treatment Facilities (PDF) (Report). The Children's Mental Health Coalition. 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center". New York State Office of Mental Health. State of New York. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center". Findhelp. Retrieved December 20, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center". Urbahn Architects. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  6. ↑ Buncher, Ryan (May 26, 2011). "Orangetown Continues to Pursue Purchase of Former Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center Property". Patch. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  7. ↑ Report on the State Fiscal Year 2021–22 Executive Budget As Amended by the Governor (PDF) (Report). Office of the New York State Comptroller. 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  8. ↑ Schuetz, Annemarie (March 3, 2021). "Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center could close". River Reporter. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  9. ↑ "PEF, CSEA members protest closure of Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center" (PDF). The Communicator (Public Employees Federation). March 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  10. ↑ Lewis, Laurence (March 10, 2021). "Cuomo's Budget Cuts Mental Health at a Time New Yorkers Need It Most". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  11. ↑ Testimony on the FY2021–2022 Executive Budget: Mental Hygiene (PDF) (Report). Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 1000. February 5, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Governor Hochul Announces 125 New Psychiatric Beds Opened at State-Operated Facilities Since December 2024" (Press release). Office of the Governor of the State of New York. April 3, 2025. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  13. ↑ Geringer-Sameth, Ethan (April 7, 2025). "State adds 125 beds to psychiatric institutions in four months". Crain's New York Business. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
  14. ↑ Day, Lucas (April 4, 2025). "NY Adds 125 New Psychiatric Beds at State Facilities Since December". Finger Lakes Daily News. Retrieved December 19, 2025.
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