help with treatment costs, free loan (g’mach) of medical equipment, visitation, meals, Blood & Bone Marrow program, Direct Donor Blood, Bikur holim House, the Living Room, Hearts of Angels Volunteers, Shabbox & Shabbos Closets, Kids Helping Kids, and a multi-media library. Another bikur holim organization, serving the Washington metropolitan area, is the Bikur Holim of Greater Washington. Like other bikur holim organizations that are located in major cities, Bikur Holim of Greater Washington serves patients who are receiving medical treatment. Bikur Holim of Greater Washington also assists patients of the National Institutes of Health. The Bikur Cholim Coordinating Council in New York City holds an annual conference of visiting the sick that is attended by volunteers and professionals from all over. See also Satmar Bikur Cholim Bikur Holim Hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center External links About Being a Visitor: a Digest of Laws of Bikur Cholim (by the Bikur Cholim Coordinating Council, NYC) References Commandments Jewish ethical law Jewish law and rituals Jewish medical ethics Jewish traditions Mitzvoth