The restoration of a historic Torah scroll — a Holocaust survivor — was begun by Calvary Hospital last week at the 92nd Street Y. Scroll No. 515, from the town of Taus-Domazlice and … more

Religious representatives will join with doctors, nurses and social workers on Thursday, Oct. 22, when Calvary Hospital convenes a “Spiritual Care Day” in Manhattan.  The CEU … more

Following St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s laboratory accreditation by the Joint Commission’s Laboratory Accreditation Unit, the lab and affiliated departments were scrutinized in … more

A yearlong restoration of a Torah scroll dating to 1880 is being undertaken by Calvary Hospital. The scroll — No. 515, from the town of Taus-Domazlice in the former Czechoslovakia … more

The last remaining hospital on the Rockaway peninsula is “not going out of business,” the leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island said on Monday. Bishop Lawrence C. Provenzano … more

“Choose life.” Forty people from across the Orthodox spectrum and beyond struggled with what that edict means when trying to stem the high incidence of breast and ovarian cancer, and … more

Close to a 100 women heard health professionals, rabbanim and yoatzot halacha (Jewish legal advisers), discuss the overlap and symbiosis between issues of women’s health and halacha (Jewish law), in a day-long seminar at the Young Israel of Woodmere. more

With a growing number of Shomer Shabbat patients arriving at Rockville Centre’s Mercy Medical Center, a member of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, the need for hospital-based bikur cholim assistance has been increasing. more

Rabbi Herschel Schachter, Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger, Rabbi Mordechai Willig, and Rabbi Moshe Tendler, met with the leaders of Calvary recently to learn about the Hospital’s extensive services for Orthodox patients and families in the two inpatient facilities and through Calvary’s Home Hospice. more

As part of Midreshet Shalhevet’s mentoring program, and as an extension of their course Nashim b’Halacha (Women in Jewish Law), the seniors met with Dr. Penina Dienstag, a resident at Downstate Medical Center and a yoetzet halacha for a shiur, discussion and question and answer session last Friday. more