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Our Mission is to provide compassionate support to those facing medical difficulties. We strive to alleviate burdens, foster hope, and promote healing.

For over 40 years, BCQ has been dedicated to servicing the greater Queens Jewish community. BCQ is solely comprised of volunteers who graciously and discreetly give their time and energy to helpthose cholim in need.

BCQs services include:

  • Home cooked meals (short term)
  • Providing one-way rides to medical appointments
    Medical equipment gemach
  • Stocking a BCQ room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Queens
  • Religious support
    Providing Shabbos and Yom Tov guest rooms at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Queens (NYPQ) for family of patients in the hospital
  • Visiting patients in NYPQ
  • Friendly visits to the homebound living in our area

BCQ is excited to announce that the BCQ room, which has been serving NYPQ patients and their families for years, has been upgraded. New furniture, a new and larger refrigerator, and two new microwave ovens (meat and dairy) have been acquired.  Satmar Bikur Cholim delivers every week.

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Additionally, the apartment at NYPQ has undergone a thorough renovation with new beds, carpeting, and a new paint job so that it will be more inviting and comfortable. It is available for patients’ family members on Shabbos and Yom Tov. BCQ gratefully acknowledges the role played by Chesed 24/7 in upgrading and decorating this apartment.

In 2022, BCQ celebrates its 47th year

of serving the greater Queens Jewish community. We take great pride in continuing the important services we already provide as well as seeking new ways to help. BCQ is solely comprised of volunteers who graciously and discreetly give their time and energy to help those cholim in need.

BCQ’s continuing services include:

  • Visiting patients in New York Presbyterian Hospital. Queens (NYPQ)
  • Friendly visits to the homebound living in our catchment area
  • Providing one-way rides to medical appointments (assuming volunteers are available)
  • Cooking short term after a hospitalization
  • Running a wheelchair and medical equipment gemach
  • Offering medical insurance and social work consultation
  • Providing Shabbos and Yom Tov guest rooms at NYPQ for family of patients in the hospital
  • Stocking a BCQ room at the hospital.

BCQ is excited to announce that the BCQ room, which has been serving NYPQ patients and their families for years, has been upgraded. New furniture, a new and larger refrigerator, and two new microwave ovens (meat and dairy) have been acquired. Food for the BCQ room has been generously provided for many years by Aron’s Kissena Farms. A-Z Kosher Supermarket, and Wasserman’s Supermarket  provide food on a rotating basis. Satmar Bikur Cholim delivers every week.

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Additionally, the apartment at NYPQ has undergone a thorough renovation with new beds, carpeting, and a new paint job so that it will be more inviting and comfortable. It is available for patients’ family members on Shabbos and Yom Tov. BCQ gratefully acknowledges the role played by Chesed 24/7 in upgrading and decorating this apartment.

Some examples of how BCQ helps:

A local woman with 3 very young children

was injured and unable to care for them. BCQ volunteers helped with child care and meals until a Medicaid aide was obtained by the family.

A cancer patient was regularly driven

one-way by BCQ volunteers for chemotherapy and radiation. When BCQ became aware that his employment was jeopardized because he was too weak to take public transportation, BCQ volunteers joined his friends in driving him to work.

Yoeli, a Chassidishe teenager,

was admitted to a local psychiatric hospital. BCQ volunteers read the megilla for him and provided friendly visits and home-cooked meals that conformed to his religious needs.

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Letters of thanks:

Dear Bikur Cholim of Queens,

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me when my brother was hospitalized in Long Island City. It was erev Yom Kippur and I was flying in from Arizona.

I had no idea where I could find a shul, or where to buy kosher food for the fast, or where to find a motel close to the shul and the hospital. You came through so quickly and fully that I can only be amazed.

May Hashem reward your wonderful organization.

Tizku lemitzvos.

Sincerely,

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