Saranac Lake (518) 891-4141 (main campus)
Lake Placid (518) 523-1717
Largest acute care hospital in the six million acre Adirondack Park, serving five counties. It offers a broad range of medical, surgical, critical, obstetrical and geriatric psychiatry services with 100 acute care beds and more than 40 physicians on Active Medical Staff board certified in 16 specialties. Two 24-hour emergency centers are located in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. AMC also operates three primary health care centers, a dental service, and part-time oncology and neurology clinics.
Alcoholics Annonymous
(518) 891-0606
Lake Placid, NY
Franklin County ARC
(518) 359-3351
Incorporated in 1969 as a private not-for-profit agency, provides services to developmentally disabled individuals of all ages, and their families. Services include residential, educational, family support, respite, adult socialization, and recreation, advocacy, information, and referral.
Franklin County Nursing Service
(518) 891-4471
Saranac Lake, NY
Home Care including skilled nursing, home health aide, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy services. Provides prenatal/postpartum maternal child visits as well as free blood pressure clinics in a variety of locations; monthly immunization clinics in Saranac Lake and Lake Tupper.
High Peaks Hospice
(518) 891-0606
Saranac Lake, NY
Organization to provide care and support for the dying. Founded in 1986, it is available to residents of Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake and the surrounding areas. Staffed by professional health care workers and trained volunteers who live throughout the area served, the Hospice is a system of services to be provided to patients judged by their physicians to be within the last six months of their lives.
North Country Home Services, Inc.
(518) 891-2641
Saranac Lake, NY
Home Care provider program supplying supportive personnel to patients enabling them to remain as independent as possible at home when undergoing stress and/or hardships due to illness, disability, injury, or limitations due to age. Care levels are housekeeping, personal care, home health aids, nighttime companion, and LIFELINE's emergency response system.
North Star Mental Health Services
(518) 891-5535
Saranac Lake, NY
Offers a variety of help including diagnostic services, individual, group and family counseling, crisis intervention and hospitalization when necessary, consultation and/or referral, and education in mental health. Services are available to both children and adults and the staff is made up of licensed mental health professionals.
Northern Adriondack Planned Parenthood (NAPP)
(518) 891-0046
Saranac Lake, NY
Non-profit health agency offering complete health care for women of all ages and income levels.
St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center visit website
(518) 891-3950 - Main Office
Provides inpatient, outpatient and community residential alcoholism and substance abuse services. First JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) accredited free standing alcoholism treatment facility in New York State. A sixty-two (62) bed freestanding inpatient facility is located in Saranac Lake, and outpatient clinics are located throughout Franklin and Essex Counties
The Tri-Lakes Chapter of the American Red Cross
(518) 891-3280
Saranac Lake, NY
One of the most active chapters in the state, maintaining a Blood Bank for area hospitals, sponsoring Bloodmobile collections, offering emergency assistance to servicemen and their families, disaster relief, and conducting training courses in First Aid, Water Safety and CPR.
Uihlein Mercy Center visit website
(518) 523-2464
Lake Placid, NY
Skilled nursing care, rehabilitation services, adult day health care, and respite care.
