The 2025 CareScout survey's New York State median for adult day health care is $144/day, or roughly $3,120/month at a five-day-a-week schedule -- a state figure, not a Staten Island-specific one.
The detail behind the number
Adult day health care runs on the facility's own schedule, typically weekday daytime hours, and gives a family caregiver working full time a genuine break during the day while the person in their care receives supervision, meals, and often on-site therapy or medical monitoring.
It is common for Staten Island families to combine adult day health care on weekdays with in-home care on evenings or weekends, rather than treating the two as mutually exclusive options. Whether Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) or the NHTD waiver helps offset adult day health care costs depends on the specific plan and the person's assessed level of need -- confirm directly rather than assuming coverage.
