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Most New York City hospitals.

We stock the Kosher rooms of most New York City hospitals, plus hospitals and mental health centers across New York, kept stocked with fresh meals. Here are some of them.

Fresh salads in trays: Israeli salad, beets, quinoa and greens
Kosher room locations

Find the Kosher room in your hospital.

We serve most New York City hospitals and a number of mental health centers. Here is where to find the Kosher room in each one: the building, the floor and the room number.

Room details are updated regularly; please let us know if anything has changed. Contact us

Inside every hospital

What you’ll find in the Kosher room.

Hot and cold meals, snacks, cakes and fresh-cut fruit every day, a full Shabbos menu every week, and Yom Tov meals with everything the Yom Tov calls for.

In every Kosher room
  • Hot and cold meals
  • Snacks
  • Cakes and fresh-cut fruit
  • A full Shabbos menu
  • Yom Tov meals
Questions

About the Kosher rooms.

Short answers for patients and families.

What is a Kosher room in a hospital?

A Kosher room is a room inside a hospital, stocked with free kosher food for Jewish patients and the family members staying with them: hot and cold meals, snacks, cakes and fresh-cut fruit, plus a full Shabbos menu and Yom Tov meals. Families also call it the Bikur Cholim room, the kosher hospitality room or the Shabbos room.

Is the food in the Kosher room free?

Yes. Everything in the Kosher room is free for patients and their families. No one is ever asked to pay.

Who stocks the Kosher rooms?

Satmar Bikur Cholim’s Kosher Rooms Division, the Ladies Bikur Cholim, based at 56 Franklin Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fresh food comes in from our caterers; we warm, plate, pack and label it, and volunteers bring it to the Kosher rooms several times a week.

Which hospitals have a Kosher room stocked by Satmar Bikur Cholim?

Most New York City hospitals, in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, plus hospitals on Long Island and mental health centers across New York. Each hospital above has its own page with the building, the floor and the room number.

What does Bikur Cholim mean?

Bikur Cholim (also written Bikur Holim or Bikkur Cholim) means visiting and caring for the sick. Since 1952, Satmar Bikur Cholim has cared for patients and their families with kosher food in New York’s hospitals.

How can I sponsor the Kosher rooms?

$36 sponsors one meal, $50 a patient’s meals for a full day and $1,000 one hospital for a day. Sponsor online on our Sponsor & Give page.

For families

Someone you love is in the hospital.

The Kosher room in the hospital is stocked and waiting, free for patients and their families, at any hour. Questions? Write to the office, we’re glad to help.

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