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A Guide to Westchester’s Hospitals and Urgent Care Clinics

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Bookmark this page for everything you need to know when choosing a healthcare center for you and your family in Westchester.

– Specialty Hospitals –

Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Valhalla

• Serves 650 inpatients per year
• Serves 30,000 outpatients per year
• Only independent children’s specialty hospital in NYS (1 of only 14 in U.S.)
• Only hospital in NYS with its own public school district on-site
• Serves patients from birth through age 19 with the largest pediatric therapy department in NYS

Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains

• 3,000 inpatients per year
• 140,000 outpatients rehabilitation therapy visits per year
• Only acute rehabilitation hospital in Westchester
• Academically affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and features a nationally recognized ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs
• Outpatient therapy delivered through 11 locations in Westchester and the Bronx
• Outpatient physician visits with specialists in physical rehabilitation, sports medicine, and more at the White Plains campus
• Neuropsychological evaluations and treatment with specialized practitioners
• Support groups for amputees and brain injury patients, among others

Four Winds Hospital Westchester, Katonah

• The leading specialized provider of inpatient psychiatric treatment for children, adolescents, and adults in the Northeast (also a location in Saratoga County)
• Admissions Department open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Treats a full spectrum of psychiatric disorders, including psychological trauma, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder
• Mental health treatment for ages 5 and above
• Partial hospital program for adolescents and youth

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Valhalla

• Only full-service, acute-care pediatric hospital in Hudson Valley
• Follows principles of family-centered care
• Offers entire spectrum of pediatric subspecialities, including cardiovascular medical and surgical services, such as fetal cardiology, electrophysiology, and cardiac surgery
• Certified interventional epilepsy program
• Hematology and oncology care, including advanced chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation
• Liver, kidney transplantation
• Specialized emergency care
• All forms of pediatric general and specialty surgery
• Complex respiratory disorders center
• Biochemical genetics center
• Hudson Valley’s only certified Level I pediatric trauma center and burn-care program
• Region’s only pediatric intensive care unit and Level IV regional NICU where smallest and sickest newborns are cared for

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester, West Harrison

• More than 60 uniquely trained physicians including medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists and radiologists
• #2 Best Hospital for Cancer for 2021-2022 by U.S. News & World Report
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A Magnet-recognized institution by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• An Early Drug Development Clinic providing patients with the earliest opportunities to access the latest drugs against a specific cancer or cancer mutation
• Targeted stereotactic treatments for mobile lung nodules with implanted Calypso GPS respiratory tracking
• Able to deliver high-dose hypo-fractionated radiation therapy for unresectable liver and pancreas cancers
• Robust Skin Cancer Management Program, including whole-body 3D imaging
• Community breast and lung cancer screening programs

NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center, White Plains

• One of the world’s most advanced centers for psychiatric care, serving children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with comprehensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, and inpatient services
• Nationally recognized for excellence in nursing from the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program
• 4,500 inpatient discharges; 26,000 outpaitent/telehealth in 2020
• Home of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry, and Center for Eating Disorders
• A Planetree Certified Person-Centered Hospital, awarded “Gold Certification for Excellence in Person-Centered Care”

WMCHealth Behavioral Health Center

• A leading provider of comprehensive mental health care for almost 100 years
• 100+ bed behavioral health hospital is the hub of one of the largest mental health systems in New York State
• Mission is to provide evidence-based assessment and treatment services, to train behavioral health professionals of the future, and to contribute research in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health disorders
• Offers a full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient, community, and emergency care for individuals and families, including a child-and-adolescent psychiatry program and ePsychiatry services through WMCHealth’s telemedicine program

– Full-Service Hospitals –

NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester, Bronxville

Number of doctors: 800+ | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 11,341/181,179 | Number of beds: 288 | Births per year: 1,053 | ER visits per year: 28,775 | Avg. ER wait time: not provided

• Accredited by Joint Commission
• Cardiac Cath Lab and Center for Sleep Medicine
• Declared a Commission on Cancer accredited quality program by American College of Surgeons
• Expanded cardiology services including a Structural Heart Program and Cardiac PET/CT imaging
• Expanding neurology services
• Joint Commission Primary Stroke Certification
• Access to clinical trials
• Mission Life Gold Cardiac Services
•PRISM Award (in Specialty Med/ Surg) for 4 North Oncology Unit
• New, state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery unit and endoscopy suites
• Och Spine expansion to Westchester

NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital, Cortlandt

Number of doctors: 582 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 8,274/151,180 | Number of beds: 128 | Births per year: 720 | ER visits per year: 29,671 | Avg. ER wait time: 0 minutes

• Seamless entry to NYP/Columbia University Irving Medical Center for clinical-trial-based experimental therapies
• Magnet designation for Excellence in Nursing
• Top Performer on Key Quality Measures recognition from Joint Commission
• An AHA-recognized hospital, with a Get With the Guidelines Gold Plus status
• New Cardiac Cath lab
New Maternal & Newborn Care Unit
• Cancer Center accredited by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
• Expanded radiology services

Northern Westchester Hospital (part of Northwell Health), Mount Kisco

Number of doctors: 787 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 10,836/117,259 | Number of beds: 245 | Births per year: 1,842 | ER visits per year: 30,492 | Avg. ER wait time: 21 minutes

• One of the first 5 hospitals in U.S. to be declared a Designated Planetree Patient-Centered Care Hospital with Distinction
• Magnet Recognized by American Nurses Credentialing Center for Excellence; 15 best-practice exemplars
• Ranked a U.S. News top regional hospital in Westchester 2020-21
Awarded American Heart Association & American Stroke Association Get With the Guidelines Gold Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus
• Robotic Surgery Center of Excellence by Surgical Review Corp; 8 Surgeons of Excellence, including a Master Surgeon (1 of 10 worldwide)
• Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence & Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Award for excellent ED practices and innovative performance

Phelps Hospital, Sleepy Hollow

Number of doctors: 650 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 8,000/200,000 | Number of beds: 218 | Births per year: 900 | ER visits per year: 25,000 | Avg. ER wait time: 9 minutes

• Cutting-edge comprehensive orthopedic surgery and services
U.S. News high-performing hospital for two adult specialties and one procedure
• Recognized by the Commission on Cancer as an Accredited Program
• Named a leader in LGBTQ healthcare by The Healthcare Equality Index
• International recognition as a Baby-Friendly® birth facility
• Stroke Gold Plus Status with Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Advanced Therapy and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll award for 2022 by AHA’s Get With The Guidelines
• Magnet Recognition status from the American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Award for excellent ED practices and innovative performance
• Clinical services include neurosurgery, orthopedics, and cancer

White Plains Hospital, White Plains

Number of doctors: 1,255 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 21,536/844,545 | Number of beds: 292 | Births per year: 2,214 | ER visits per year: 64,734 | Avg. ER wait time: 9 minutes

• Only Westchester hospital (one of 8 in NY) rated 5 Stars for quality care and patient experience by CMS
• A U.S. News Best Regional Hospital for 2022-23
• Only Westchester hospital to receive top safety grade of “A” from the Leapfrog Group (7th consecutive time) and the Top General Hospital designation
• Top 10% of hospitals nationally recognized for excellence in patient experience by Healthgrades
• Magnet designated, the highest standard for nursing excellence
• Press Ganey 2021 Guardian of Excellence Award for Patient Experience in NICU
• Advanced cardiac care, including open-heart surgery; will soon perform thrombectomies, the most advanced stroke treatment currently available
• New, expanded ICU

Montefiore Health System, New Rochelle Hospital

Number of doctors: 435 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 6,486/106,980 | Number of beds: 223 | Births per year: 649 | ER visits per year: 47,062 | Avg. ER wait time: Varies

• Community-based teaching hospital
• Center of Excellence designation from the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission as a Certified Center of Excellence for hip and knee replacement
• Designated as a New York State Department of Health Primary Stroke Center
• 2021 Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Target Stroke and Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll recipient
• Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Montefiore Health System, Mount Vernon Hospital

Number of doctors: 242 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 1,981/128,668 | Number of beds: 121 | Births per year: 0 | ER visits per year: 25,232 | Avg. ER wait time: Varies

• Community Hospital
• Designated as a New York State Department of Health Primary Stroke Center
• Designated as a New York State Department of Health AIDS Center
• Wound Treatment and Hyperbaric Center
• Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Disorder Programs

Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla

Number of doctors: 500 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 23,000/447,000 | Number of beds: 652 | Births per year: 925 | ER visits per year: 40,000 | Avg. ER wait time: 25 minutes

• Regional hub for advanced subspecialties, accepting thousands of patient transfers annually
•  Region’s only Level I adult trauma & burn center serving Hudson Valley, much of Upstate NY
•Transplantation of heart, kidney, liver
• Cardiac surgery, catheterization, and other advanced services
• High-risk OB-GYN program
• Many neuroscience care offerings, including region’s only NYS-designated Comprehensive Stroke Center
• Recognitions include American Stroke Association for stroke care excellence; American College of Cardiology for Excellence in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement; National Center of Excellence, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association; Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program as a comprehensive center; Center of Excellence, Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology
• Academic medical center training next generation of healthcare professionals

St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Dobbs Ferry & Yonkers (combined)

Number of doctors: 614 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 16,844/285,893 | Number of beds: 340 | Births per year: 1,325 | ER visits per year: 41,316 (Andrus & Dobbs Ferry) | Avg. ER wait time: 10 minutes (Dobbs Ferry) / 25 minutes (Yonkers)

• 5-star maternity services 14 consecutive years
• Commission on Cancer Outstanding Achievement Award for 4 consecutive reviews
• JCAHO Accredited and Gold-Plus Designated Stroke Center
• 24-hour Emergency Rooms with Fast Track
• Inpatient Detox and Rehab Units
• Dobbs Ferry Pavilion offers Westchester’s only hospital-based orthopedic center
• Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine Residencies
• LECOM medical school clinical rotation site
• Cochran School of Nursing

St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Yonkers & St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester, Harrison (combined)

Number of doctors: 438 | Inpatients/Outpatients per year: 5,597/735,204 | Number of beds: 326 | Births per year: N/A | ER visits per year: 28,016 | Avg. ER wait time: not provided

St. Joseph’s:
• Family medicine, podiatry, and foot and ankle surgery residencies
• 2022 Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Target Stroke Honor Roll recipient
• Wound Treatment and Hyperbaric Center
• State-of-the-art cardiovascular diagnostic imaging; Yonkers’ only Cardiovascular Rehab Program
• On-site food pantry at family health centers
St. Vincent’s:
• in/outpatient mental/behavioral healthcare for adolescents and adults
• Addiction and recovery treatment
• Countywide mobile crisis prevention-and-response teams
• Serves as county’s suicide hotline
• Offers affordable housing locations and hosts monthly mobile food distributions in conjunction with Feeding Westchester

– Urgent-Care Clinics –

1. Armonk
Urgent Care Center at WPH Medical & Wellness

2. Dobbs Ferry
Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care

3. Eastchester
City MD Eastchester Urgent Care

4. Hartsdale
AFC Urgent Care

5. Hartsdale
City MD Hartsdale Urgent Care

6. Mamaroneck
City MD Mamaroneck Urgent Care

7. Mamaroneck
PhysicianOne Urgent Care

8. Mamaroneck
PM Pediatrics

9. Mohegan Lake
PhysicianOne Urgent Care

10. Mohegan Lake
Pulse-MD Urgent Care

11. Mount Kisco
CareMount Medical Urgent Care

12. Mount Vernon
AppleMed Urgent Care

13. Mount Vernon
AFC Urgent Care Mount Vernon

14. New Rochelle
Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care

15. New Rochelle
Westmed Urgent Care

16. Ossining
Immediate Medical Care MD

17. Peekskill
Sun River Health Jeannette J. Phillips

18. Rye Brook
Northeast Medical Group Walk-in Care Center

19. Rye Brook
City MD Rye Brook Urgent Care

20. Rye
Rye Walk-in Medical Center

21. Rye
Westmed Urgent Care

22. Somers
PhysicianOne Urgent Care

23. Tarrytown
Urgent Care of Westchester

24. Tarrytown
Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care

25. Thornwood
Pulse-MD Urgent Care

26. Thornwood
Urgent Care of New York

27. White Plains
White Plains Urgent Care

28. White Plains
WestMed Urgent Care White Plains

29. White Plains
Formé Medical Center and Urgent Care

30. White Plains
City MD White Plains

31. Yonkers
City MD Yonkers – Central Park Ave Urgent Care

32. Yonkers
City MD Yonkers – South Broadway Urgent Care

33. Yonkers
PM Pediatrics Urgent Care

34. Yonkers
Sun River Health Valentine Lane

35. Yonkers
Urgent Care Cross County Montefiore Medical Group

36. Yonkers
Urgent Care of New York

37. Yonkers
Westmed Urgent Care Ridge Hill

38. Yonkers
Westmed Urgent Care Boyce Thompson

39. Yorktown Heights
AFC Urgent Care Yorktown Heights

40. Yorktown Heights
Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care

41. Yorktown Heights
Caremount Medical Urgent Care

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