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Our organization started on the poor, immigrant streets of Brooklyn in 1907. Four courageous women looked into the eyes of the old and sick– people in desperate need and deserving of kindness–and they did something. They founded the Brooklyn Ladies Hebrew Home for the Aged. With the help of charitable support, the home provided poor, elderly members of the community with quality health care and a home where they could spend their final days.

And so began the story of MJHS.

Rooted in the values of compassion, respect and dignity for every individual regardless of who they were, where they came from or how much money they had.

Those values have guided us every step of the way since then. In a very real sense, we recreate our founding moment every day. We comfort, we counsel, we heal, we put our values to work. From that small building among the tenements, we’ve become one of the most expansive health systems in the region.