MEDICAL BASED CHESED ORGANIZATIONS—USA
Refuah Helpline
845-782-2000
9 Meron Drive
Monroe, New York 10950
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
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
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.