Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing
is a medical facility in
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,
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, which was founded as the Beth Abraham Home for Incurables. It was originally a long-term residential care facility, but was later expanded to include rehabilitation services.
History
Bertha Alperstein founded Beth Abraham in memory of her late husband
Avraham Eliezer Alperstein. The property was acquired in January 1920 for $115,000 (), and the new hospital opened on March 21, 1920. On its fifth anniversary, the hospital celebrated the opening of a new building costing $500,000 () which increased its total capacity to 225 patients.
In January 1952, the hospital's name was shortened to Beth Abraham Home, owing to developments in "rehabilitative physical and psychological techniques
hich gave
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patients a chance to advance medically and socially far beyond former concepts of mere custodial care."
In 1963, Beth Abraham began "an active affiliation with a neighboring teaching institution,
Montefiore Hospital".
In 1996, ''
The New York Times
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'' wrote that "the 520-bed Bronx hospital" was opening new facilities in
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and in
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.
[ Although they also use the name Beth Abraham - Centers Health Care Nursing and Rehabilitation, as of 2021 Montefiore's "Find a Doctor" still lists "Beth Abraham Hospital. 612 Allerton Avenue. Bronx, NY."]
References
External links
Official Facilities website
Services website
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Hospitals in the Bronx
History of the Bronx