Steven Yohay

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Steven Yohay
Steven Yohay

Steven Yohay is principal shareholder and chief executive officer of the ACI healthcare group, comprising AREBA Casriel, Inc., as well as a host of related health-care companies offering treatment, diagnostic, and other medical services. These include American CaseManagement, Pan American Medical Clinic, Applied Behavioral Health of New York, Applied CaseManagement, Applied Consulting, and NineEleven CaseManagement. He is also a commercial real-estate investor. Steven Yohay is actively involved in his first love, musical theater, having invested in such Broadway hits as The Producers, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, and Little Shop of Horrors[1]

Steven Yohay is also the father of two daughters, Charlotte and Paige[2]. Yohay earned his BS in psychology from the State University of New York in 1977 and also received New York State certification as an Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor[3]. Yohay's avocations include motorboating, sailing, tennis, mountain biking, and scuba diving, in which he has advanced certification[4]. Yohay is also involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors, having contributed generously to AIPAC, Hadassah, and B'nai Zion, and has been the recipient of a number of awards and honors in recognition of these contributions.

Steven Yohay was born in 1950 in the Bronx, the son of a longshoreman and a bookkeeper. Yohay graduated valedictorian from DeWitt-Clinton High School at age 16[5]. Turning down Harvard, Yohay spent his New York State Regent's scholarship on a new Mustang and attended the City College of New York[6]. There, Yohay met a woman that he became engaged to, when at seventeen an automobile accident changed the course of his life. Not only did he lose his fiance; Yohay also witnessed her decapitation, soon after which he became addicted to heroin. By age 20 Yohay had a hundred-dollar-a-day habit[7].

At around this time, Yohay's grandmother read an article by Daniel H. Casriel, MD, a New York psychiatrist who had extended his private practice to include a dozen beds for rehabilitating drug addicts. A special arrangement was made with Dr. Casriel, who was moved by Steven's mother's plea, "am I not as entitled as a rich person to see my son live?" The Yohay's got their son admitted, though the treatment still consumed a significant portion of the family's life savings[8].

Yohay's resolve to find a cure for his condition manifested early, and he successfully completed treatment within one year. Yohay had sufficiently impressed the staff with his grasp of substance-abuse theory that he became Casriel's personal protege as a counselor trainee. Yohay's ascent within the company was rapid. He went from being a counselor-trainee in 1971 to being assistant resident director in 1972[9]. In 1973, Yohay became resident director, and then executive director in 1975[10]. Finally, Yohay became chief executive officer in 1982[11]. Through his training and experience at ACI, Yohay acquired sufficient expertise to have contributed a number of scholarly articles on the subject to notable journals[12].

In 1983 Casriel was struck down by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gherig's disease, or ALS[13]. Yohay, by this time the proprietor of the company, envisioned a significant expansion of the scope of the treatment center, moving it to a 100-bed facility at its current home on 57th Street[14]. Having assembled a cast of capable managers, Yohay built ACI into a prominent facility for substance abuse treatment in the New York area[15]. It soon became licensed and accredited[16]. It is currently the oldest private facility for such treatment in the country. Under Yohay's tutelage, ACI then became the foundation for creation of a number of other healthcare companies offering a wide range of medical services including diagnostics and treatment, as well as managed care. In 2002, Steven Yohay founded NineEleven CaseManagment, Inc., which was provided a contract to manage all of the mental health and substance abuse benefits for the victim of the 9-11 World Trade Center attacks and their families. This effort was funded by the September 11th Fund. In 2000, Yohay was awarded the title of Counselor Emeritus by the New York State Office of Alcholism and Substance Abuse Services[17].

As president and principal shareholder of ACI, Steven Yohay oversees treatment of four thousand patients per year. Yohay has expressed gratitude at his fortune in having been able to transform such adverse youthful circumstances into a thriving healthcare provider employing several hundred people and giving a second chance to many clients.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  2. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  3. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  4. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  5. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  6. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  7. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  8. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  9. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  10. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  11. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  12. ^ Who's Who in America -- 2007. 61st Ed. Marquis Who's Who: New Providence, NJ.
  13. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  14. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  15. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  16. ^ Ray, Eric L. "Steven J. Yohay: from Victim to Healer." Lifestyles Magazine. December, 2002, Issue no. 177. Buffalo, New York.
  17. ^ New York State. Certificate of Recognition. Certificate number 5, June 16, 2000, signed by Jean Somers Miller, Commissioner, Office of Alcholism and Substance Abuse Services.