Bikur Cholim of Lakewood Inc

LRBC aims to ameliorate the distress of sickness by provision of services and assistance designed to ease the burden of patients and their families. We are there to advocate for them, to identify their requirements and provide them with whatever is necessary to mitigate their necessities. optimal outcomes are much easier to achieve when information and services are made available. We aim to provide the full gamut of required help through the process of sickness and recovery by evaluation of each case that we become aware of and identification of how the path to recovery can be expedited and eased. while removing as many stressors and unknowns as possible.

Lev Rochel Bikur Cholim addresses the needs of those in crisis through the provision of advocacy and advice to those who need help navigating the medical world. We maintain a large database of medical professionals enabling us to help patients reach satisfactory choices as well as ensuring that in times of emergency, treatment can be acquired in a timely manner. Once a patient is hospitalised, LRBC provides assistance to the patient and their families through provision of kosher meals, kosher pantries, housing and transportation when requires as well as ensuring that meals are provided to the families of patients. We maintain a warehouse of medical equipment for the benefit of the community ranging from crutches and shower chairs to complex oxygen-provision machinery, hospital beds and monitoring equipment to enable community members to maintain a functional level of standard of life even when sick. We have a fleet of transport vehicles to get patients to hospitals and medical specialists for treatment and testing. Our state of the art kitchens produce over 4,000 meals a week to provide patients in hospitals and their families at home with nourishing hot food.

We maintain a dedicated staff and offices available 24/7 to address the needs of the sick. We have departments for advocacy, home care, transportation, a full commercial kitchen, property maintenance for our Friendship Houses network and a team of 250 volunteers as well as a fundraising department. We develop and maintain active relationships with local emergency services and municipal authorities as well as with the hospitals we service. We have a medical advisory board with whom we consult on local and national medical issues.
7 Friendship Houses (Lakewood NJ, MSKCC/Weill-Cornell NYC, Jersey Shore NJ, Monmouth NJ, East Brunswick NJ, Cleveland OH, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN. Paley Institute, West palm Beach FL and Columbia Med Center NYC are under development) with more than 30,000 guest nights per annum.
18 Kosher Food Pantries in 10 hospitals (Monmouth MC Southern Campus, Jersey Shore, Ocean Medical Center, Community Medical Center, Monmouth Medical Center main Campus, Manhattan Friendship House, Lakewood Friendship House, Robert Wood Johnson - Rutgers University Medical Center, East Brunswick Friendship House, St Peters)
Over 3,000 pieces of medical equipment including 30 hospital beds, 120 oxygen concentrators, 35 ventilators and 500 wheelchairs valued in excess of $1,200,000 loaned out multiple times annually.
Over 200,000 kosher hot meals produced and distributed annually from our kitchens in Lakewood. over 300,000 salads and snacks produced and distributed annually.
Advocacy - over 15,000 calls/year, 150 inter-facility transfers, 250 discharges facilitated and over 1500 home nursing visits.
Our transportation fleet of 13 vehicles handles more than 4,000 rides per year as well as delivering meals and equipment.

We have become the go-to center for medical crises in the community where we are set up to respond faster and most effectively to all aspects of illness enabling patients and their families to reach optimum outcomes in the most informed and organized way possible. We continue to find areas of need and create programs that fill them