Overview
Zucker Hillside Hospital is a renowned Northwell behavioral health facility, known for its trailblazing clinical, teaching and research programs. Over the past 30 years, it has been the site of multiple National Institute of Mental Health research centers focused on the treatment of schizophrenia, including a Clinical Research Center, Intervention Research Center and a Center for Intervention Development and Applied Research. These federally supported centers have provided Zucker Hillside with national and international recognition for its pioneering work in the diagnosis and treatment of serious mental illness. We are also a Magnet-designated hospital for nursing excellence.
Inpatient services include adolescent, adult, geriatric, and women’s (perinatal psychiatry) units. Treatment specialties include early phase treatment, depression, schizophrenia, peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar and personality disorders, psychotic disorders, medical/neurological illnesses with psychiatric symptoms, and Alzheimer's disease or related conditions. Our beautiful 22-bed inpatient women’s unit is the first in New York state and one of only a few in the U.S. to specialize in treating women with perinatal psychiatric illness.
Our outpatient programs serve all ages and encompass the full continuum of care. These services include health centers, partial hospital treatment programs, and a full range of psychiatric rehabilitation services. Programs for alcohol and chemical dependency are available both on our main campus and in numerous community-based sites.
Our goal at Zucker Hillside is to promote wellness and to reintegrate patients back into the community to work, attend school, socialize and live independently.
Zucker Hillside Hospital earned the prestigious Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2024 as proof of its hard-earned commitment to excellence in health care. Zucker Hillside is the fifth freestanding psychiatric hospital in the world to receive this designation.
Leadership
Joanne Bentson, DNP, RN
Chief Nursing Executive and Associate Executive Director, Northwell Health
Chris Boffa
Associate Executive Director, Hospital Operations
Mike Dwyer
Associate Executive Director, Ambulatory Services
Catherine Galla
RN, MSN, CENP-Associate Executive Director Quality Management
Arber Kokoneshi
Deputy Executive Director, South Oaks Hospital, Zucker Hillside Hospital
Howard David Linder, MD
Chief of Division of Psychiatry - Consultation -Liaison Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital, Associate Chairman - Psychiatry of Psychiatry - Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Michael Scarpelli
Executive Director, South Oaks Hospital, Zucker Hillside Hospital
Maahila Singh
VP, Human Resources
Honors & awards
- Recipient of the NICHE Trailblazer Award
- Recipient of the NAMI Arnold Gould Award
- Recipient of the Healthcare Equality Index Award
- Designated a Clinical Research Center for Study of Schizophrenia by the National Institute for Mental Health
