Refuah Askanim & Networks You Can Call From Anywhere

This is the layer that answers "but what if it happens in Bangkok?" — organizations that work by phone, anywhere, plus the networks with a presence in nearly every country. Verified June 2026.

• Ezra LeMarpeh — Bnei Brak. Medical referrals and second-opinion guidance by Rabbi A. Elimelech Firer · International patient transport · Ambulance services · Medical equipment lending · Rehabilitation centers (Bnei Brak & Sderot) · Support for cancer patients and children with serious illness. ☎ +972-3-577-7000 (Israel); 718-435-9788 (NY office). Founded 1979 by Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer (Israel Prize 1997). Israel's best-known medical-referral askan; fields thousands of calls a year and refers patients within Israel and abroad. Official site fetched live; phones as published there.
• ECHO (Echo Institute for Health / Ezras Cholim) — Spring Valley (Monsey), NY. Free expert medical referrals worldwide · Guidance to the right specialist and acute-care facility for each condition · Experienced medical counselors tracking current research. ☎ 845-425-9750 (Monsey); 718-859-9800 (Brooklyn). 30+ years of free, non-sectarian medical referrals to thousands of patients worldwide; branches include Brooklyn and Toronto (listed in the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto directory). echomedical.org currently redirects to its Rayze giving page — phone remains the primary intake channel.
• Refuah Helpline — Monroe, NY. Medical referrals and guidance · Case management and patient advocacy · Insurance and coverage advice · 24/7 crisis intervention · Medical record review and research · Mental health referrals. ☎ 845-782-2000 (24/7). Led by Mrs. Hannah Landau; 20+ years fielding calls from simple referrals to complex case management. Calls answered every day with 24/7 case-manager access. Address: 9 Meron Drive, Suite 104, Monroe NY 10950.
• RCCS (Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society) — Brooklyn, NY. Health-insurance premium coverage for cancer patients · Guidance to appropriate physicians and treatments · Dedicated care management per family · Emergency financial assistance for deductibles/co-pays. ☎ 718-722-2002. Founded 1997. Patients call from communities worldwide for insurance coverage and physician-referral guidance; care managers connect families to transport, meals and emotional-support resources. HQ 762 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn.
• A TIME (A Torah Infertility Medium of Exchange) — Brooklyn, NY. Infertility helpline with professionally trained counselors · Expert medical referrals and consultations · Support groups and community programs · Pregnancy-loss support · Chava women's reproductive-health helpline. ☎ 718-686-8912 (office); 718-437-7110 (24-hr helpline). The premier Torah-community infertility organization; helpline steers callers medically with expert referrals while protecting privacy. Confidentiality assured; serves callers internationally.
• Bonei Olam — Brooklyn, NY. Financial assistance for fertility treatment (IVF, IUI, medication, PGD) · Medical advice and fertility referrals · High-risk pregnancy and genetics divisions · Emotional support. ☎ 718-373-2000. Founded 1999; 28 regional chapters in 6 countries (separate UK, Belgium and other sites are live); 11,000+ children born through its assistance. HQ 1755 46th St, Brooklyn.
• Beineinu — Online (global). Org-finder database — 4,500+ pages of Jewish medical organizations, providers and funding resources worldwide · Family-to-family matching by diagnosis · Medical equipment exchange listings · Special-needs information newsletters. The existing Jewish 'org-finder' — an international community for families dealing with illness/special needs, sharing vetted information on doctors, clinics, organizations and funding worldwide. Registered US 501(c)(3) (GuideStar EIN 45-4014946).
• Chabad-Lubavitch Worldwide Center Directory — Brooklyn, NY (HQ); centers worldwide. Searchable locator for 5,000+ Chabad centers in 100+ countries · Local contact for kosher meals, Shabbos hospitality and minyanim anywhere · Filterable for hospital-visitation services · Universal local-contact fallback for a Jew in any city. The honest answer to 'every place in the world' — a Google-Maps-based directory of the entire shlichus network, searchable by city/zip with filters including hospital visitation. Wherever a patient lands, the local Chabad shaliach is the on-the-ground contact.
• Hatzalah (Chevra Hatzalah and worldwide branches) — New York, NY (largest branch); branches worldwide. Volunteer emergency medical response and ambulance transport · 24/7 dispatch (~75,000 calls/year in NY alone) · 1,800+ EMTs, 200 paramedics, ~100 ambulances in the NY area · Independent branches across the US, Israel, Europe, Australia and beyond (operations in 16 countries). Largest volunteer EMS network in the world. Each community branch publishes its own local emergency number — callers should use their local branch line, so no single hotline is listed here.
• United Hatzalah of Israel — Jerusalem. Free volunteer emergency medical response across all of Israel · 8,000+ volunteer first responders, 90-second response goal · National 1221 emergency number · International emergency-response missions. ☎ 1221 (within Israel); +972-2-500-2020 (office). Largest independent fully-volunteer EMS organization in the world; anyone in Israel — resident or visitor — can dial 1221 for free emergency medical help. HQ 78 Yirmiyahu St, Jerusalem.
• Chai Lifeline — New York, NY. Support network for children with life-threatening or chronic illness and their families · 24-hour crisis and trauma intervention (Project Chai) · Hospital-based services, counseling and case management · Camp Simcha programs · Regional offices internationally — all services free. ☎ 877-242-4543 (877-CHAI-LIFE); 855-327-4747 (24-hr crisis line, 855-3-CRISIS). International children's health support network founded 1987; crisis team has run 2,251 interventions reaching 250,000+ people worldwide. Both hotline numbers are published on its site.
• Amudim — Inwood, NY. Confidential crisis case management and direct referrals · 24/7 crisis hotline with trained case managers · Help with addiction, abuse, mental health and acute family crisis · Offices in the US and Israel. ☎ 646-517-0222 (office); 718-972-3000 (24/7 crisis line). The community's central crisis-referral address; caller ID is disabled on the hotline for confidentiality, with immediate dispatch to professional case managers. Email support@amudim.org also published.
• Dor Yeshorim — Brooklyn, NY. Premarital genetic-compatibility screening for Jewish communities worldwide · 24-hour phone hotline for results and information · Genetic research and expanded testing panels · Screening events across the US, Israel, Europe and beyond. ☎ 718-384-6060 (24-hr hotline). The worldwide phone-based system for preventing Jewish genetic diseases — results are delivered anonymously by phone via ID numbers, from anywhere in the world. HQ 309 Rutledge St, Brooklyn.
• Renewal — Brooklyn, NY. Kidney-donor recruitment and matching · Guidance and support for donors and recipients through the entire transplant process · Donor campaigns for patients worldwide. ☎ 718-431-9831. Global pioneer of community-based altruistic kidney donation (founded 2006); responsible for close to 15% of US stranger-to-stranger transplants. Patients anywhere can call to start a donor search.
• Chayim Aruchim (Agudath Israel of America) — Brooklyn, NY. 24-hour halachic/medical end-of-life hotline staffed by rabbonim with medical-halachic training · Real-time hospital advocacy for patients and families · Legal and cultural-sensitivity liaison with hospitals and physicians. ☎ 718-278-2446 (718-ARUCHIM, 24-hr hotline). Created by Agudath Israel in 2010. Its Machon hotline of seven rabbonim renders decisions on complex end-of-life situations and works with the family's own Rav and the hospital to implement them — callable from anywhere.
• ROFEH International — Brookline, MA. Medical referrals into Boston's hospital hub · Free patient/family apartments near the hospitals · Kosher meals including Shabbos meals delivered · Airport and appointment transportation — all at no charge. ☎ 617-566-1900. Founded by the Bostoner Rebbe, Rav Levi Yitzchak Horowitz zt"l; the address for any Jew worldwide coming to Boston for treatment — referral network plus 8+ hospitality apartments. Phone and address verified on its live contact page.
• Ezer Mizion — Bnei Brak. World's largest Jewish bone-marrow donor registry (1M+ registered donors) · Medical referrals and advocacy · Cancer patient support · Ambulance and patient transport · Medical equipment lending · Mental health and special-needs divisions. One of Israel's largest health-support nonprofits (founded 1979) — 58 centers in 31 cities across Israel, the US and Canada, serving 670,000+ people a year. Its registry serves transplant matches for Jewish patients worldwide.
• Misaskim — Brooklyn, NY. 24-hour tragedy and crisis hotline · Shiva-house equipment delivered free · Kavod hames coordination with authorities · Support for aveilim, widows and orphans · Disaster and emergency response. ☎ 718-854-4548 (24-hr hotline). Founded 2004 by Hatzalah members; the standard first call for Jewish families anywhere in the US facing a sudden tragedy — coordinates nationally with local communities and agencies.
• Hatzolah Air — Kew Gardens, NY. Emergency and urgent medical air transport worldwide · 400+ volunteer flight physicians, paramedics, EMTs and dispatchers available 24/7 · Compassionate (non-emergency medical) flights · Disaster-response airlift. Donor-funded 501(c)(3) (Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team, EIN 82-3869756) flying medical missions globally since 2019 at no charge to patients. Flight requests go through the form/contact channels on its live site; no public hotline number verified, so none listed.

Part of The Worldwide Bikur Cholim Directory. Every listing was verified against the organization's own website or an established communal directory (June 2026). Run an organization that belongs here, or see something to correct? Tell us — listings are free.

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