New York University has traditionally provided the highest quality in health care, research, and medical education. Training at the NYU Hospitals Center and its affiliated institutions guarantees exposure to an extraordinary range of patient populations and psychiatric and neurological illnesses from around the city and around the world. A vibrant complex in the heart of the nation's premier city, the NYU School of Medicine complex stretches for 11 blocks along the East River.

Tisch Hospital admits approximately 30,000 patients per year and serves as a focus for a broad spectrum of highly regarded regional tertiary-care programs. The patient mix includes unusual medical and surgical neurological disorders referred for definitive diagnosis and treatment. The Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Tisch Hospital has the largest in-patient continuous EEG and video monitoring unit on the east coast.

Established in 1736, Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the United States and is the flagship hospital of the largest municipal hospital system in North America. Occupying a 21-story structure adjacent to NYU Hospitals Center, it is the primary teaching hospital of New York University School of Medicine. The Department of Psychiatry handles more 100,000 outpatient visits per year including the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program. The Department of Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Health Care System is a tertiary care facility and the only VA facility in the region with on-site MRI. It also has active, federally and privately supported basic and clinical research programs, which include studies of addiction disorders, HIV, and schizophrenia.

The Hospital for Joint Diseases has an active clinical neurophysiology evaluation service, a multiple sclerosis care center, and a traumatic brain injury unit. Lenox Hill Hospital has an active 27-bed inpatient psychiatric service and the Lenox Hill Outpatient Center for Mental Health provides residents with additional opportunities to treat patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. The chief of the outpatient clinic is a nationally recognized psychiatric expert in traumatic brain injury. Manhattan and Rockland Psychiatric Centers are fully accredited state facilities for the chronic care of patients with long term and persistent mental illness.