Message from Ahavas Chesed

As summer draws to a close, Ahavas Chesed welcomes everyone back home. At this time, we would like to thank the community for all of your generous help this past year. We thank everyone who volunteered their time, who contributed blood, and assisted financially.

We are able to do tremendous chesed and help our less fortunate brothers and sisters thanks to your support. Thanks to people like you, they are not completely alone.

We would also like to mention the outstanding doctors of our community, who are always there to help us in our chesed activities.

In the name of the entire community, we take this opportunity to thank Hatzolah for their extraordinary efforts day and night on our behalf.

We fervently hope that nobody should ever need us, and the only medical issue should be newborn babies. But the Ahavas Chesed emergency hotline is available 24/7 if you ever need any medical help or medical advice. You should never need us, but you should always know we are here for you.

We help those in need, through our extensive network of medical providers and volunteers. We secure proper medical treatment regardless of a patient’s ability to pay, provide medical treatment for the elderly and disabled, escort patients to doctor’s appointments, and visit them in the hospital. We sponsor blood donations and bone marrow testing drives, and recruit platelet donors for cancer patients. This is just a partial list of what we do in times of medical crisis.

With the start of the yom tovim, many people are coming to Crown Heights from overseas. We strongly urge them to get travelers’ medical insurance if they are coming to our community for yom tov. Without insurance, medical bills can be expensive and overwhelming for even minor medical needs.

There is now a Shabbos Taxi service available for non-emergency, urgent transport to the hospital. Call Rainbow Car Service (718) 498-4444. Say you are a Jewish patient going to the hospital, and it is the Jewish Sabbath or a Jewish holiday. Mention account code: CHESED. Your driver will not ask for payment, and will open and close car doors, carry bags to and from the taxi.

This service is for stable patients in non life-threatening situations.

For an emergency or when in doubt, always call Hatzolah: (718) 387-1750.
If you wish to volunteer and help Ahavas Chesed in our work in any way, you can sign up on our website at www.chesedcenter.org.

May your support of Ahavas Chesed bring Hashem’s blessings to you and your loved ones, and may we merit to see the immediate revelation of Moshiach, when illness and poverty will be no more.

Wishing you and your entire family a Kesiva v’chasima tova!

AHAVAS CHESED EMERGENCY HOTLINE (718) 221-2424