Beth Abraham Center

Beth Abraham Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is a medical facility in Bronx, New York, 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 (equivalent to $1,805,042 in 2024), 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 (equivalent to $7,848,007 in 2024) 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 [which gave] 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 wrote that "the 520-bed Bronx hospital" was opening new facilities in Westchester County and in Manhattan. 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.