Stemming from the tragic loss of Chaim, Chaim Medical Resource was created in his memory and provides tremendous support and identification of resources for individuals and families dealing with overwhelming medical conditions. As a care-provider for some of these children, I want to thank Chaim Medical Resource for what it has done and continues to do to help families navigate the turbulent waters of the medical system, allowing them to focus their energies on the care of their loved ones with the confidence that they are obtaining the best that medical community has to offer. Congratulations to Shevy Kahan and Chaim Medical Resource for all you do.
Roger J. Packer, MD
I have personally had a wonderful time getting to know and caring for patients referred to us at Johns Hopkins Pediatric Oncology from Chaim Medical Resource. I have usually worked with Pessie Schlafrig there and it is obvious that she will go to the end of the earth to find the right option for each of the patients with whom she is working. The information she provides has made it easy to get back to her with the options we have available for each patient. It is a pleasure for us to work with Chaim Medical Resource.
Donald Small, MD, Ph.D
You provide an invaluable bridge for your complex patients to receive care. Not only facilitating the initial transfer, but overseeing daily issues that happen when families are in unfamiliar environment and then transitioning back home. Your involvement makes a significant difference and is very unique. It is a privilege to be able to care for your children at Cincinnati Children’s. Thank you for the opportunity.
Michael A. Helmrath, MD, MS
I want to take this opportunity to express my extreme gratitude for giving me the honor of being able to work with you and Chaim Medical Resource to offer patients suffering with brain tumors the best possible cutting edge and quality care. In my 30-year career of having treated more than 25,000 patients with brain tumors at prestigious Institutions such as Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, the National Institutes and Health and the National Cancer Institute, I have had the opportunity to work with many different patient advocacy and patient referral services. With that long experience I can truly say that you and your organization provide one of the most supportive, helpful and knowledgeable services for care and support both to the patient and his/her family I have had the privilege of seeing. I congratulate you on the outstanding work that you do and look forward to many more years of close and powerful collaboration in our efforts to provide the best possible cutting edge, quality treatment and care for our patients with brain tumors.
Howard A. Fine, MD
As a medical provider and surgeon, I have come to closely experience the wonderful work that Shevy Kahan and Chaim Medical Resource perform for members of the community. The organization provides the absolute best of care and support to patients and their family members faced with a variety of medical conditions. It is very apparent that for Shevy Kahan and all her office staff, patients and their families always come first. I have been closely involved with several instances where they tirelessly work and devotion of the members of their team, be it day or night, has hugely benefitted and in many cases saved the lives of patients. Shevy and her team are devoted to patients and their families and are their staunch advocates. This selfless work has provided hope as well as avenues of cure and care to many patients and families that would otherwise not have been available to them. They are able to coordinate and facilitate the best of care for simple and complex medical conditions and even for the sickest of patients while serving as a great source of support for the family.
P. Ravi Kiran, MD
Shevy Kahan and her colleagues are the best. I have never seen such commitment and enthusiasm. They are absolutely determined to make sure their patients from the Jewish community receive the very best in cancer care. They are an essential part of our cancer care program at Columbia University. I can't thank them enough for what they do, and I know our patients feel the same way.
Gary Schwartz, MD
The "Chaim Medical Resource” is an outstanding group of individuals dedicated to making sure each person they touch receives the best medical care and support possible. It is an honor to help in their mission.
Orrin Devinsky, MD
Chaim Medical Resource is a wonderful resource for connecting patients with complex needs to providers who can help support those needs. They truly advocate on behalf of their patients, and help them steer what can be a complex maze of medical care. As a provider, I can see the result of their care network, and how they improve the lives of the patients they help.
Mark R. Proctor, MD
“Honestly, the more I know about Chaim Medical Resource, the more I’m being impressed. It is really a great group of dedicated warm hearted people, really helping families and patients in need.“
Quoted at the Brooklyn 2016 Event.
Huayan Zhang, MD
Chaim Medical Resource provides guidance and support to individuals and families through the maze of doctors and hospital in our current complex world of managed health care. We feel privileged to be included in the list of physicians with whom this amazing organization collaborates. The dedicated volunteers of this organization tirelessly work to improve the quality of care for its members in need.
Andrei Rebarber, MD
It has been my pleasure over the years working together with Shevy Kahan helping mutual patients. I have been extraordinarily impressed with her dedication, commitment to the patient and family and her exquisite attention to detail. Her mesiras nefesh gives great hope and strength to the patients she deals with and she effectively works with the medical system to help provide to the patient along with the involved physicians the best care possible!
Michael J. Zelefsky MD
As a surgeon specializing exclusively in the operative treatment of patients with scoliosis and other forms of spinal deformity, I have been fortunate to help dozens of patients undergoing corrective surgery for their crippling deformities supported by Chaim Medical Resource. It is only thru the essential financial and coordination assistance provided by this organization that our unique expertise in managing these highly complex conditions with world-class surgical care can be provided. I, along with all of the patients we have treated, truly appreciate your support of this tremendous organization!
Lawrence G. Lenke, MD
The delivery of healthcare has become increasingly complicated and at times, even incomprehensible. Chaim Medical Resource helps to navigate these difficulties with a wonderful understanding of medical care and sensitive patient advocacy. I am always happy to be of help to them and their families.
Keith Benkov, MD
Working with Shevy Kahan, executive director of Chaim Medical Resource Org, has been a pleasure. She personally discusses patients with their physicians to ensure the best care and communication can be met. She puts her patients first and is always a strong advocate for them.
John J. Chen, MD, PhD
Chaim Medical Resource provides amazing, crucial support to so many needy and deserving children. I am amazed at the energy and effort that goes into your efforts. Keep up the good work. It is a pure mitzvah!
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
Over the years it has been a pleasure to work with Chaim Medical Resource Org. These referral patients often have unique problems that have not yet been adequately managed by the medical community at large. Chaim seems to know how to get them to the right place for the best possible resolution.
William Macaulay, MD
Chaim Medical Resource is a superb group that has and continues to push the healthcare field forward by providing a pivotal resource of information for patients with significant medical problems. I have worked with them for a very long time and am honored to be helping a team that is clearly highly motivated and passionate to help those in need.
Henry Friedman, MD
Chaim Medical Resources provides an invaluable service to families in need at a very difficult time in their lives. Its director has been through it all with her own son’s illness, and she knows how difficult it is to penetrate the dense medical hierarchy to obtain the best care. This is a wonderful organization worthy of support.
R. Michael Scott, MD
Our Comprehensive Skull Base Program at The Ohio State University is undoubtedly one of the most complete teams of extraordinary people in this field. We not only offer the state of the art on the management of skull base pathologies but we do care for the people we take care. We are very excited with our relationship with Chaim Medical Resource Org, since we share the same mission. Chaim has been demonstrating compassion and determination to help the community and the Chaim-OSU collaboration has brought successful outcomes for patients and families.
Daniel M. Prevedello, MD
For patients with complex chronic illnesses, finding the right care provider can be almost impossible. Chaim Medical Resource makes this easy so that families can focus their attention on getting well. This is truly a mitzvah and I have been honored to play a role.
Karen Onel, MD
Chaim Medical Resource continues to be an inspiration with the work they do for so many. It is a privilege to partner with them providing care to children in need. Best wishes for the upcoming event – its success is to the benefit of so many children.
Michael J. Rutter, MD
As Director of Joint Arthroplasty for Northwell Health, Chaim Medical Resource has been an invaluable resource in helping connect us with patients who are in true need. Specifically, Shevy Kahan, and her staff’s devotion to their work is evident by patients’ singing their praise when they visit us in the office. Although I performed over 15,000 joint replacements throughout my career, we have avoided more than 10x that total with non-operative options. I appreciate the incredible devotion and consultations from around the globe. Chaim Medical Resources offers outstanding completeness of care and facilitation ease. I am always eager to work with Chaim Medical Resources and Shevy Kahan to provide the highest quality care for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions in an efficient and highest-level manner.
Michael A. Mont, MD
Congratulations to the entire Chaim Medical Resource Org. and Mrs. Kahan. Continued success in researching and providing access to healthcare professionals who can provide the care for members of the community who are in need and may require expertise outside the immediate locale.
Mark J. Kupersmith, MD
Over many years, my colleagues and I have greatly enjoyed working with Shevy Kahan and everyone else at the Chaim Medical Resource Organization. They do wonderful things for patients in their community, and are very helpful to us managing their transitions in care. Chaim Medical deserves your support!
Craig Smith, M.D.
A strong collaborative relationship has developed between Chaim Medical Resource Org and the Mayo Clinic Cardiovascular Department. The referral Services they provide are of the highest quality and always keep the needs of the patient first. I strongly support their work to help the community.
Leslie T. Cooper, JR., MD
Shevy Kahan and Chaim Medical Resource provide an invaluable service for patients suffering with brain tumors. They do their homework and identify centers and physicians that provide novel therapies for difficult cases. They are able to gain their patients' access to the highest quality centers in the country. Chaim Medical Resource prepares the patients' records in such a way that physicians have complete access to the data they need to make accurate recommendations. All this lead to the best and most thoughtful therapeutic approaches.
Allen H. Friedman, MD
What a distinct pleasure and honor to be asked to comment about the role of Chaim Medical Resource in the care of children who come to us. For the last 10-12 years I have worked closely with this group in securing care for their patients with major birth defects many who have had prior unsuccessful surgeries. These folks are dedicated, kind and caring and always go the "extra mile" for these little patients and their families. The impact their efforts have made in the quality of life for these young children is unmeasurable in real terms. Your continued and valued support of this most worthwhile organization is certainly appreciated by all of us who have the honor to care for these little folks and their families.
John P. Gearhart MD FACS FAAP FRCS(ED)(HON)
Columbia Ob/Gyn is privileged to collaborate with Shevy Kahan and Chaim Medical Resource to ensure that women and families have access to the care that they need, particularly for the most challenging and complex cases. We share Shevy's immense commitment to and passion for the health of her community members and are honored to serve them in lockstep with Chaim.
Mary E. D'Alton, MD
It has been our honor to assist in the care of families who learn of us through the dedication of Chaim Medical Resource Organization. We have witnessed the tremendous facilitation of connections and information transfer to find the best care for patients in need at times of great stress.
Steven J. Fishman, MD
I am so impressed with, and appreciative of the compassionate care and support offered by the Chaim Medical Resource Organization. I am honored to help participate in the care of patients they refer. Having a partner like Chaim Medical Resource Organization helps reduce the stresses sometimes associated with the patient's journey through the many complexities of modern health care delivery systems.
Robert T. Grant, MD, MSc, FACS
Chaim Medical Resource is always available 24 hrs a day, seven days a week for all their patients. They take care of each patient as if it's their own mother. Before you know it, Chaim Medical has done all the homework for you and provides you the very best surgeons and doctots for your specific medical need. We at NYU Langone are honored to be part of their team that puts the patient ahead of anything else - money logistics or problems - because the only thing that matters in the care of the patient is caring for the patient.