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Facilities

Patient Care

Research

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Facilities

The Frank Synagogue Endowment has been established to ensure the synagogue’s preservation for the next 100 years. The endowment will allow for continued maintenance of the structure and expanded programming. The Frank Synagogue is the only freestanding synagogue in the country situated on hospital grounds. Built of Indiana limestone and oak woodwork, it is modeled after third- and fourth-century synagogues, ruins of which were discovered in north central Israel.

Patient Care

For Fiscal Year 2003, the Albert Einstein Society has funded many innovative programs for improving patient care. They include:

• Care management for frequent emergency room patients — a program designed to help reduce the number and severity of emergency room visits.
• Caring Across Cultures, a program to help recent immigrants and non-English speaking patients navigate healthcare by providing a comprehensive patient handbook in their language.
• The Home/Community Transitional Program, to help patients with spinal cord injury bridge the transition from in-hospital rehabilitation care to home.
• The Music Therapy and Technology Lab uses computer technology and a gesturo-musical wand to help even the most psychiatrically compromised patients discover the healing power of improvised music.
• EMBRACE (Enriching Minds and Broadening Resources for Adults and Children through Education) provides elementary school-aged children and their caregivers with three 6-week educational sessions where they learn about child development, conflict resolution, building friendships, advocating for health and educational needs and child safety.
• Story Hour from the Writers in Residence Program uses storytelling as a healing intervention. The Writer in Residence works with groups of patients to listen to and discuss the stories of former patients of MossRehab — stories related to their own disabilities.

Research

For Fiscal Year 2003, the Albert Einstein Society awarded these research grants:

• A study to determine the effects of different medicines as treatment for "fatty" liver. If beneficial effects are found with one or more of these medicines, it could be the first treatment to help patients with this liver condition, preventing liver failure and the need for transplantation.
• A study of how non-disabled people select objects in everyday tasks such as coffee-making to help enhance everyday task rehabilitation for people with brain injury or stroke.
• A study to test (on mouse models) drug interventions to ameliorate learning and memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease.
• A study to determine the relative importance of personality, family issues and peer influence as risk factors for illegal, violent behavior.
• A study to understand brain mechanisms that contribute to dependence on opiod drugs.
• A study to learn how the brains of non-disabled people function as they see, assess, grasp and use objects, so that this information can be used to help stroke survivors.