Center for Culturally SensitiveHealth Advocacy & Counseling

ChayimAruchim

A PROJECT OF AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA

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Halachic Advisor: Rabbi Zvi Ausch, Yoishev Rosh Bais Hoiruha D'KarlsburgLegal Advisor: Mordechai Biser Esq., General Counsel Agudath Israel of AmericaPatient & Family Representative: Rabbi Aron Wajsfeld • NYS Project Director: Rabbi Berish FriedCare Navigator: Pinny Most • Discharge Consultant: Leah HorowitzCommitee (in formation) : Rabbi Gedaliah Weinberger, Chairman of the Board, Chayim AruchimDavid Adest • Dr. Marcel Biberfeld • Jacob Friedman • Dr. Yashar Hirshaut • Mark J. Kurzmann, Esq.Dr. Seymor Lachman • Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz • Yeruchem Silber • Rivie SchwebelRabbi Yaakov Weiner, Rosh Kollel, Jerusalem Center of Research • Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 718-301-9800 • CHAYIMARUCHIM@AGUDATHISRAEL.ORG • WWW.CHAYIMARUCHIM.COM

Members of the Machon are prepared to talk with physicians and other hospital staff to understand the issues, provide guidance and relay any questions based on the accurate facts to the Rabbonim or the Rav that the patient chooses.

Machon members were trained by prestigious physicians representing many medical �elds. In addition to their classroom training, members also visited various medical facilities in the New York and New Jersey areas.

These choshuveh chavrei Machon are under the direction of the Hagoan Horav Hershel Ausch, shlita, the Av Beis Din Volkin and the Yoshev Rosh of the Bais Horaah of Karlsburg.

24 HR HOTLINE: 718-301-9800

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CHAYIM ARUCHIM’s MACHON REFUAH V'HALACHA Halachic Advisor: Horav Zvi Ausch Yoishev Rosh Bais Hoiruha D'KarlsburgMachon Director: Rabbi Ben Zion Leser Members of the Machon: Rabbi Zische Ausch • Rabbi Eliezer GewirtzmanRabbi Menachem Horowitz • Rabbi Naftoli Katz • Rabbi Yair Sandler • Rabbi Ahron Wajsfeld

WHEN SOMEONE IS SERIOUSLY ILL, THERE ARE OFTEN

Pikuach Nefesh Questions& Critical Care Decisions.How can the family be sure that they......are making the right decisions?...clearly understand the facts?...were presented with all the options ?...are presenting the accurate facts to the Rav ?

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nfui rputv uvkfvWe thank the following experts who gave detailed lectures to the members of the Machon:Neil A. Halpern, MD, FCCM, FCCP, FACP Chief Critical Care Medicine, Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center • Elie Hamaoui MD Director, Metabolic Support Service; Attending Physician, Gastroenterology Division, Maimonides Medical Center. • Yashar Hirshaut MD Mt Sinai Medical Center and Lenox Hill Medical Center • Robert Krinsky MD Nephrologist, Maimonides Medical Center • Yizhak Kupfer MD Assistant Director, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center • Howard Lebowitz MD Chief Medical Officer, AcuteCare Health System • Bernard Lee, MD Associate Chief Medical Officer, MJHS Hospice • Allen Lempel CMD Medical Director, Leisure Chateau • Jay Lipshitz MD Hematologist/Oncologist, Maimonides Medical Center • Benish Mandel Hatzalah Paramedic • Norbert Moskovits MD Director,Heart Failure Program; Associate Director, Clinical Cardiology & Coronary Care Unit, Maimonides Medical Center • Beth Popp MD Associate Director, Hematology/ Oncology; Director, Palliative Care Program, Maimonides Medical Center • Danny Sherwinter MD Director, Bariatric Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center

WE ARE HERE FOR YOU!