These past few months have been among the most harrowing of our lifetimes. Words alone cannot express the depth of gratitude and love we harbor toward the community for the kindness and generosity they’ve bestowed on our residents and frontline health care workers during this acute public health crisis.
Continue Reading We Stand in Solidarity
Throughout New York City, a network of small DIY manufacturers have been stepping up to help solve the personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage. They are sewing masks, building protective gear, and fabricating medical equipment needed to fight the spread of Covid-19.
Continue Reading A Neighbor Puts Her Equipment to Work Producing Much-Needed Face ShieldsBy STEWART AIN
April 7, 2020, 7:08 pm
Rabbi Jonathan Malamy, director of the Department of Meaningful Life (religious life and spiritual care) at the New Jewish Home in Manhattan, the Bronx and Westchester, spoke last weekend with the families of three patients who had died in the hospital. They struggled to accept the news.
As doctors and nurses scurried past him, Rabbi Jason Kirschner, wearing an N95 respirator mask, stood outside the closed door of a Covid-19 patient at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last week and recited prayers of healing.
Continue Reading Chaplains Bear a Great Weight as ‘Bridge to Families’: On the front lines of a changing ‘ministry of presence.’
As seen in lohud. (part of the USA TODAY network): “Dr. Jeffrey Farber, president and CEO of the New Jewish Home, a health system that includes a nursing home in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, as well as other elderly care facilities in Manhattan, said the COVID-19 preparations have been steadily ramped up since February. Continue Reading Coronavirus in NY: How NY plans to protect medical workers, health care if COVID-19 surges
JANUARY 24, 2020
Learn about the LeadingAge Catalyst for January 2020: The Geriatrics Career Development Initiative at The New Jewish Home, New York, NY.
Continue Reading LeadingAge Catalyst: Geriatrics Career Development Initiative
Earlier this year, the New York State Health Department announced it would pursue a change in Medicaid reimbursements that would effectively cut nearly a quarter billion dollars in funding to hundreds of nonprofit nursing homes. As a mission-focused provider that has been proudly serving the community since 1848, we faced a choice: stand up to these cuts and fight for thousands of nursing home residents in New York State, or do nothing and jeopardize the quality of care they depend on. We chose to fight.
Continue Reading Medicaid Cuts on the Line
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and the New Jewish Home, Sarah Neuman have formed a long-term strategic partnership focused on rehabilitation services.
Continue Reading RAIN’S HEALTH PULSE NY: “Westchester providers ink long-term rehabilitation partnership”
The New Jewish Home, Manhattan, hosted a Seder for residents to honor the first night of the festival of Passover. As one of our well-attended and anticipated events, I’m pleased to share that this year, our Passover Seder reached a much broader audience. Three major TV news outlets featured the event (NBC 4, ABC 7 and Fox 5), as well as WPIX 11 and NTDTV (New Tang Dynasty Television).
By Pat Kiernan
Published 7:18 AM ET MAR. 04, 2019
From NY1.com
Things don’t come as easily as they once did for Dominga Marquez. The 76-year-old suffered a stroke four years ago – she collapsed on her way to church.
“I didn’t know what was happening, where I was, and then I was very scared,” Marquez recalled.
