An Investment in Individuals, their Families, and Our Communities
As we celebrate four decades of service, St. Joseph's is preparing for a new era of health care.
While we have held fast to our traditions and proven programs, our business model, primarily how residents pay for treatment has evolved steadily.
When the Franciscans founded St. Joseph's, the Friars absorbed the cost of treatment as a part of their ministry.
Beginning in 1975, however, public funding from the State of New York became an important source of our revenues. Today, of the 300 men and women who arrive at St. Joseph's annually, nearly 85% of residents' treatment is covered by Medicaid and Medicaid Managed Care. Approximately two percent have private insurance, and just three percent are able to pay for their treatment.
This analysis does not, however, include a significant population that desires treatment but earns too much to qualify for Medicaid and cannot afford insurance.
Expressed in figures, we seek to raise $3,000,000, to establish a sustaining, permanent endowment to provide the gift of recovery for all who suffer from addiction and who seek the peace and joy of recovery.
Expressed in gratitude, please consider the following sentiments of a former resident,
" I am blessed, not because I woke up one day and decided to quit, I had done that many times. I am blessed because my feet landed on the most precious and sacred ground I have ever been on. I owe my life, the life of my children, and the lives of countless other people whom I certainly would have continued to hurt to St. Joes.
I will never forget those brisk spring mornings, singing Amazing Grace in the chapel and knowing that it was true, that I had been found. For it is those times, and the pure gratitude for St. Joe's and the Friars of Atonement that keep me sober today."