Agudah Women of America has announced the launching of a new program designed to assist individuals caring for hospitalized family members. The program provides specially trained volunteers to stay overnight with patients, enabling the caregivers to rest and spend precious time at home with their families. The program is currently limited to female volunteers at a select number of Brooklyn hospitals. (A men’s group is in formation at this time.) To volunteer (round-trip transportation is provided) or to arrange for a volunteer to stay with your loved one, call 212 363 8940, fax 212 363 8941, or email [email protected].
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Wonderful, Mi k’Amcha Yisroel. Having just recently experienced the hospitalization of an elderly family member and witnessing most of us “falling apart” trying to balance jobs/families/ and hospital shifts, this is welcome news to me. Thank You Agudah Women of America.
Yasher Koach. I am impressed that this problem is being recognized and worked on.
As someone who lived through several years with a sick husband A”H at the same time as sick parents A”H I know what a bracha this will be R”LTZ for so many families who are currently experiencing what I went through.
If you have been blessed and spared from going through such a situation – with only one loved one ill – you can’t imagine ther strain and stress involved. May you never know from it. But it overlaps into every area of your life and that of your loved ones and makes everyday life an overwhelming pressure from which there is no relief.
To those of you who volunteer for this program gebentched zol stu zein and may you only have bracha, simchos and naches in your own families. And may we be zoche for Mashiach Tzidkeinu to come soon and be free from sickness and tzarus.
Tizku L’mitzvot to all involved. However,if I may just comment. I hope this program will be extended beyond the brooklyn area. Very often, people forget that there are Jews in other areas as well, not just brooklyn.
I just called that number to volunteer myself. I wish I had this service when my parents were sick, but now, it can help others now. I only wish them sucess and wish all those families a refuah shelamah.
zg and kt.
There already is an organization like this in the Monsey area. This organziation sends single girls to sit in the hospital with patients (mostly young children) so the parents can tend to the needs of the rest of the family. They even spend Shabbos in the hospital if necessary! This covers Good Sam (Monsey), Nyack, and even Westchester and Valhalla.
Call 845-362-3315-Mrs. Adler, to volunteer or if you need their services….
Will the volunteers only go to Brooklyn hospitals?
What about patients in Manhattan?
In the williamsburg and boro park community this is being done for years for about 45 years ago someone complaind to the satmar rabbe zatzel that their is somebody in hospital and their is nobody available overnight with the patint trebbe zetzal said if their is no chesed why do we need the yeshiva comment by chusid
If you know someone who needs hospital coverage in Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (Washington Heights), please call (718)998-1073. Please be advised that the volunteers are not specially trained, for the most part; however, they do possess good middos. This service has been in effect for at least eleven years.