MEDICAL BASED CHESED ORGANIZATIONS—USA

  

 

Refuah Helpline

845-782-2000

9 Meron Drive

Monroe, New York  10950

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Refuah Helpline is a medical based chesed organization which seeks to ease the stress and suffering of patients and their families.

Some of their services include:

  • Medical referrals
  • Patient advocacy
  • Crisis intervention
  • Retrieving medical reports, pathology slides, ultrasounds, films, scans, etc.
  • Step by step advice and support for patients and families with ongoing medical conditions
  • Guidance for additional medical opinions
  • Reviewing medical reports before and after the doctor’s visit
  • Expediting appointments for important and emergency situations
  • Mental health referrals
  • Guidance and support for psychiatric patients
  • Hospital liaison and inpatient care
  • Arranging flights and appointments for out of state treatments
  • Shipping food to patients traveling out of state for medical care
  • Insurance coverage advice
  • Research for additional trials and procedures for seriously ill or terminally ill patients
  • Financial aid for medical emergencies not covered by insurance
  • Food for hospitalized patients and families
  • Accompanying patients to medical appointments
  • Separate male and female support groups for parents of children with various conditions

 

Chesed 24/7 (Chesed of New Square)

 845-354-3233,   845-354-2627

286 North Main Street

Spring Valley, New York  10977

www.chesed247.org

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Chesed 24/7 provides extensive and innovative services to the sick, the elderly, the developmentally delayed, and any individual or family facing a life challenge.

Some of their services include:

  • Delivering hot nutritious meals to hospitalized patients and their families
  • Delivering meals to the families of hospitalized patients and post partum mothers in Rockland County, New York.
  • A non-Jewish driver picks up and delivers food to hospitalized patients in Manhattan hospitals on Yom Tov.
  • Shabbos-in-a-box supplies all you need for spending Shabbos in the hospital
  • Fully stocked Chesed Kosher Hospitality rooms in many New York and New Jersey hospitals
  • Transportation from Rockland County to Manhattan hospitals
  • Volunteer transportation to medical appointments, rehabilitation facilities, and hospitals
  • Volunteers to visit patients or do hospital shifts
  • Dial-A-smile volunteers perform for hospitalized patients
  • Boost in a Bottle—freshly squeezed pomegranate juice for patients with weakened immune systems
  • Mothers milk bank
  • Blood donor program
  • Medicine Chests containing over-the-counter medications located in many locations in the community, for use on Shabbos or when pharmacies are closed
  • SHARE services for the developmentally delayed

 

Kochavim

718-489-9599

www.kochavimcare.org

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Brooklyn & Monsey NY

A Jewish organization providing services to families impacted by illness. They service patients, the children of patients and their affected families in the NY Tri-state area, providing support and crucial interventions in the hospital, patient’s homes, and at their unique Kochavim centers.

Some of their services include:

  • housing for out-of-town patients and their families coming to New York for treatment
  • volunteers to help with housework
  • volunteers for hospital shifts
  • volunteers to assist at out-of-town hospitals
  • in-hospital teachers for children
  • at home teachers for homebound children
  • student educational advocacy
  • school placement for relocated patient’s children
  • hospital meals
  • The Star Learning Center, a sterile educational center for seriously ill and immunocompromised children.
  • The Space program for patient’s children or siblings.