The Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, located on 45 Rivington Street, is a $140 million facility, with the price tag believed to represent the largest private investment in mental health care in state history.
The center has one of the state’s first Intensive Crisis Residences for short-term therapeutic residences for people experiencing urgent and acute mental health crises that are not necessarily severe enough to require hospitalization. The Intensive Crisis Residences can also serve as the next step for people transitioning from an acute hospital stay to reintegrate back into the community, according to Mount Sinai Health System.
René S. Kahn, chair of psychiatry for the Mount Sinai Health System, said in a statement that the new center will provide more space and resources for Mount Sinai’s Department of Psychiatry.The ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by Mount Sinai leaders Kenneth Davis, CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System, Grant Mitchell, c
“This new facility will address some of the critical gaps in behavioral health services that New Yorkers downtown currently face, giving them access to the care they need when and where they need it,” Mitchell said. “One of the biggest challenges that New York has right now is the unmet needs of our fellow New Yorkers who are struggling with mental illness,” Levine said at the ceremony. “Your investment of $140 million here is huge. You’re showing the rest of the city that we can do behavioral health right.