By Long Island Senior Advisor Care Team · October 19, 2026
Huntington Hospital is at 270 Park Avenue and the Town's Senior Center and Adult Day Care are at 423. Here is how Huntington Village and Station families can use that street, plus Suffolk numbers and costs.
Why Park Avenue is the street to know in Huntington
If your parent lives in Huntington Village or Huntington Station, two addresses on the same avenue do most of the work in a care crisis. Huntington Hospital, part of Northwell Health, is at 270 Park Avenue. The Town of Huntington Senior Center, which houses the Town's Senior Division and its Adult Day Care program, is at 423 Park Avenue. Families who learn both addresses before anything goes wrong make better decisions when something does.
Most of our guides cover a whole county or a whole health system. This one is deliberately narrow: what a Huntington family can reach by car or a short ride, in what order, and what each stop will and will not do. It is written for the adult child in their fifties who is juggling a job, a parent a few miles away, and a phone that has just started ringing with hospital numbers.
One honest limit up front: nobody publishes a Huntington-specific price for assisted living, home care or memory care. The only cost source we trust, the 2025 CareScout survey, reports New York State medians. Every dollar figure below is a state median, and we say so each time. Local prices may differ, and the only way to learn them is to ask each provider in writing.
Huntington Hospital: what a discharge conversation looks like
Huntington Hospital opened in 1916 and is a Northwell Health community and teaching hospital. Public references list it as a Level III trauma center and a New York State designated Primary Stroke Center. For families, the practical point is simpler: a fall, a stroke scare or a pneumonia admission at 270 Park Avenue usually ends with a discharge planner asking where your parent is going next, often within a day or two of admission.
That question arrives faster than most families expect. Ask the discharge planner or case manager three things on day one, not day four: what level of care the team expects your parent to need after discharge, whether the hospital stay will qualify for Medicare skilled nursing coverage, and what the realistic date is. A hospital stay and a skilled nursing stay are different benefits with different rules, and the difference matters to your wallet. Our Northwell discharge planning guide walks through the system-wide process; this page is about the local map around it.
If your parent will be discharged to a nursing home for short-term rehab, ask which facilities have a bed now, not which you would prefer in a perfect world. If your parent is going home, ask whether a home care agency or a Managed Long Term Care plan needs to be arranged before the ambulette arrives. Our Nassau and Suffolk hospital discharge guide covers the questions that apply at every hospital.
Write down the name of the discharge planner and a direct number. Hospitals change shifts, and the person who understood your parent's situation on Tuesday may not be the person on the phone Thursday.
423 Park Avenue: the Senior Center and Adult Day Care
The Town of Huntington Senior Division serves independent Huntington residents age 60 and older. Its Senior Center at 423 Park Avenue is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, and the Town lists the number as 631-351-3253. The Town also runs a Suffolk County nutrition site, a home-delivered meals service, a Home Maintenance and Repair program and in-home services through EISEP, New York's Expanded In-home Services for the Elderly Program. Ask the Division which of these have waitlists before you count on them.
The piece many families overlook is the Town's Adult Day Care program, in Room 204 of the same building. The Town describes it as a social-model program for Suffolk County residents age 60 and older, and in some cases younger, with decreased physical or cognitive abilities, including dementia and Alzheimer's disease. It runs Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4 pm, and members may attend one to five days a week. A continental breakfast and a main meal are served daily. The Town lists the program line as 631-351-3293.
The Town lists free, handicapped-accessible transportation for Town of Huntington residents, offers a caregiver support group led by a Senior Division social worker, and notes that respite grants may be available through the Suffolk County Office for the Aging and Parker Jewish. Its page does not publish fees, so call and ask for the current rate in writing. It says some long-term care insurance plans are accepted and names the VNS Medicaid managed care plan as accepted. If your parent is on a different plan, ask directly.
For scale, CareScout's 2025 New York State median for adult day health care is $3,120 a month, or $144 a day. That is a state figure for a different category of program, and the Town's own rate may be lower or higher. Use it only as a rough yardstick when you compare a day program with other options.
The Huntington Village and Huntington Station difference
Huntington Village and Huntington Station sit a short distance apart, but they feel like different towns to the families living in them. The Village is walkable, with Main Street shopping and restaurants, the Heckscher Museum and the Cinema Arts Centre. Station is denser and generally more affordable, and it is home to the Huntington stop on the LIRR Port Jefferson Branch, which matters if a sibling is coming in from Manhattan or out of state and would rather not rent a car.
For a parent in the Village, walkability is often the reason they have stayed independent as long as they have, and losing it, through a fall or loss of vision or a driving decision, can change the picture quickly. For a parent in Station, the question is often whether a single-family home is still workable, and whether the family can cover the gap with paid help while someone is at work.
Both neighborhoods are within reach of Park Avenue by car. If your parent no longer drives, build the Senior Center's transportation into the plan before you need it, and ask whether pickup times fit your parent's mornings. Our neighborhood pages list the Huntington-area hamlets we cover and the verified communities nearest each.
Assisted living near Huntington: ask for the license by name
One verified assisted living community sits inside the Huntington Station area on our directory: Sunrise of Huntington, at 300 West Hills Road, which the operator describes as offering assisted living, memory care and short-term stays. Sunrise publishes an ALR license number on its own site, ALR #700-F-959. Because we have only the operator's statement, treat that as a starting point and look up the facility yourself on the New York State Health Profiles adult care facility directory before you tour.
New York does not have one flat assisted living license. The base is an Adult Care Facility license. A facility can then be licensed as an Assisted Living Residence under 10 NYCRR Part 1001, and an ALR can add Enhanced (EALR) or Special Needs (SNALR) certification. SNALR is the state certification for residents with dementia. If a brochure says memory care, ask to see the SNALR certification by name. Our licensing framework guide and license verification steps explain how to check.
Cost is where families get surprised. The New York State median for a private one-bedroom assisted living unit in the 2025 CareScout survey is $7,110 a month. The same survey puts a non-medical caregiver at 44 hours a week at $6,673 a month. In other words, full-time home care is not automatically cheaper. There is no published memory care median, and we will not guess one. Our home care versus assisted living math works through the hours.
A few miles east, in Dix Hills and Melville, additional communities appear on our directory. Our Melville Route 110 guide explains why a nursing home and an assisted living community can share a mile and still be entirely different licenses.
Who to call in Suffolk, and why Nassau numbers will not help
Huntington is in Suffolk County, and Suffolk and Nassau run entirely separate agencies. The Suffolk County Office for the Aging is 631-853-8200. Nassau's is 516-227-8900. If you are calling about a Huntington parent, use Suffolk. NY Connects, the state's free information line, routes through the same county office.
For a concern about a person living at home who may be neglected or exploited, Suffolk's Adult Protective Services line is 631-854-3232. Nassau's is separate. Our APS guide explains what happens after the call. For a concern about care inside a licensed facility, the Suffolk Long-Term Care Ombudsman office, run through Family Service League, is 631-470-6755, and the NYSDOH Long Island regional office complaint line is 631-851-3098. The Ombudsman can only act with the resident's consent, and does not inspect or fine a facility.
If your parent has limited income and assets and needs community care, ask Suffolk's Office for the Aging about Managed Long Term Care. MLTC enrollment is mandatory in both Nassau and Suffolk for Medicaid recipients age 21 and over who need community-based long-term care for more than 120 days. Our MLTC explainer covers the enrollment steps.
A one-week plan for a Huntington family
Day one: save the hospital discharge planner's name and number, and the Senior Center line, 631-351-3253. Day two: call the Adult Day Care line, 631-351-3293, and ask about openings, current fees, accepted plans and transportation pickup times. Day three: call Suffolk's Office for the Aging, 631-853-8200, and ask for a screening for EISEP, home-delivered meals and respite grants.
Day four: pull your parent's papers together, including the health care proxy, power of attorney, insurance cards and a medication list. If there is no power of attorney and your parent can no longer sign one, read our Article 81 guardianship guide now rather than in a crisis. Day five: tour at most two communities and ask each to show its license and, for memory care, its SNALR certification.
Day six: price three options on one page, the Town day program plus paid help at home, a full-time aide and an assisted living community, using state medians clearly labeled as such until you have written quotes. Day seven: talk with your siblings, including the one who lives out of state, and decide who owns which call.
None of this requires a perfect answer. It requires knowing the two Park Avenue addresses, the Suffolk numbers and the right questions. That is most of the battle in Huntington.
