No -- Staten Island falls under the New York City region (Region 3) of the statewide Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, sponsored by CIDNY, which covers all five boroughs together rather than maintaining a separate Staten Island-specific ombudsman region.
What is specific to this county
This is different from how ombudsman coverage is sometimes organized in other parts of New York State, where a specific rural region might be covered by a smaller, more geographically focused sponsoring organization. For Staten Island, the same CIDNY-run program that serves Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx also serves Richmond County.
In practical terms, this means the phone number and office address a Staten Island family uses to reach the ombudsman -- 1-888-855-9807, 1010 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan -- are the same ones a family in any other NYC borough would use, rather than a Staten Island-specific contact point.
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