Why is childhood obesity considered a health problem?
Childhood obesity is associated with various health-related consequences. Obese children and adolescents may experience immediate health consequences and may be at risk for weight-related health problems in adulthood.
Nutritional Counseling is currently available at the JRMC. Please call 732-376-9333 for further information or to schedule an appointment.
Got Diabetes? Thinking About Having a Baby?
If you are a woman with diabetes, you still can have a healthy baby. You need to take extra care before and during your pregnancy. Talk with your doctor about whether it is safe for you to become pregnant. Ask your doctor what you need to do before you get pregnant, how to prevent pregnancy while you are getting your blood sugar under control, and how to keep your blood sugar under tight control both before and during your pregnancy.
Diabetes Counseling is available at the JRMC. Please call 732-376-9333 for further information or to schedule your appointment.
Be Sure to Get Vaccinated
Influenza (the flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. Some people, such as older people, young children, and people with certain health conditions, are at high risk for serious flu complications. The best way to prevent the flu is by getting vaccinated each year.
Flu Vaccines are currently available here at the JRMC. Please call 732-376-9333 or come by to schedule an appointment. We also welcome walk-ins.
Why you need the pertussis vaccine, especially if you have children…
Pertussis, also called “whooping cough,” is bad news. For children and adults it causes literally months of coughing, at times so severe that it causes vomiting and broken ribs. But for infants and especially newborns, pertussis is much worse: they can’t tolerate the respiratory infection, and sometimes just stop breathing.
Pertussis Vaccines are currently available here at the JRMC. Please call 732-376-9333 or come by to schedule an appointment.
Health News & Topics
Mobile Dental Unit
Project Dome
Our Project D.O.M.E. “Dental Opportunities Made for Everyone” Mobile Dental Facility offers affordable quality dental care to the medically underserved communities throughout Middlesex County and the surrounding Central Jersey Regions. We provide convenient access to quality dental care on our 38 foot, state of the art Dental Mobile Unit. Project D.O.M.E can help meet the needs of your community by conveniently scheduling at your location, offering varied insurance applications, completing a full scope of dental services and offering continuum of treatment at either location.
Mobilizing Care – This is the premise of Project DOME. JRMC acquired and equipped a mobile medical command unit (MMCU) that operates as our “moving dental clinic”, i.e., a fully fabricated modular unit with exam rooms. Our 38 foot mobile dental unit will provide your school or organization with affordable quality dental care.
- Onsite Dental Treatment
- Full Scope of Dental Services
- State of the Art Technology
- Confidentiality
- Coverage Options
- No Insurance, No Problem
For Further Information Please Call 732-376-6632 or 609-903-5165.
JRI
Jewish Renaissance International
Current Mission (Haiti)
Newsletter
Haiti Press Release
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Jewish Renaissance Foundation and Medical Center Doctor Alan Goldsmith, President of the Jewish Renaissance Foundation and Medical Center, speaks with Professor Eloi Belruis, President of Help Hospital, during an April 2010 crisis relief trip to Haiti. Help Hospital will be partnering with the foundation to provide care for people affected by the crisis in Haiti.
PERTH AMBOY — A Perth Amboy team is heading to Haiti this weekend to help survivors rebuild their city and their lives.
Specifically, the group is heading to Léogâne, a coastal city 18 miles west of Port Au Prince, which was the epicenter of January’s quake that killed more than 250,000 Haitians.
Police officers and their families are targeted for special attention on this trip as medical staff plan to fit prosthetics for those who had limbs amputated.
The Perth Amboy-based Jewish Renaissance Foundation and Medical Center is heading out on its sixth trip to Haiti with nine volunteer American and Canadian medical and construction professionals to plan a medical center and a safe haven for children. They are also hoping to build a factory that will construct shelters.
“Anytime we see a catastrophe of this magnitude it’s our responsibility as human beings to step up and help them,” said Alan Goldsmith, president of the Jewish Renaissance Foundation and Medical Center. “In the beginning, everyone was rushing to their aid and then four months later the support and the funding started dropping off.”
The faith-based non-profit has completed more than 50 crisis-relief missions throughout the world.
Goldsmith, who will lead the mission, said the team will spend a week in Haiti starting Sunday. On Monday, Léogâne’s mayor is expected to sign over 400 acres for the medical center and the construction team will start developing a site plan, he said.
The medical team – optometrists, general practitioners and pediatricians – is bringing medical and surgical tools, 2,000 eyeglasses, antibiotics, food and vitamins.
Twenty percent of the $8 million project is being funded by the Canadian government. The rest will be covered by donations from the foundation and individuals.
The volunteers will have to deal with contaminated water, little to no electricity, limited technology and temperatures higher than 100 degrees. Goldsmith said they’ll rely on translators and Haitian-born doctors to help overcome language and cultural barriers.
The JRFMC’s Civic Justice Corps Director and Haiti project manager, Yves Theodore, was a police officer in Léogâne before moving to New Jersey in 2003. He said the effort is a way for him to achieve his dream of giving back to his hometown.
“I can attest, after my last trip back, that the situation is shocking. Thousands of people are amputees, thousands of men, woman, children and infants are sleeping in the streets, in the open air, under rain, and there is no end in sight for how long they must survive this way,” he said.
The safe haven, medical center and factory will take five to 10 years to become fully operational, but Theodore said he hopes the plan will improve the community’s level of health care and create 500 jobs.
“Before this project there were no jobs in Léogâne, there were no hospitals and no orphanage,” Theodore said. “For them it’s very important that they get these kinds of projects.”
Goldsmith agreed, saying he wanted the plan to improve the quality of life in the city.
“What we saw on their faces was hopelessness, but after we treated them and gave them medications the hopelessness turned into a bright light because they knew that someone genuinely cared about them and wanted to help,” he said.
For more information on the Jewish Renaissance Foundation and Medical Center’s mission visit www.jrfmed.org.
Article Courtesy of CentralNJ.com
Newark Schools
Newark School Based Health Centers
We are a Federally Qualified Health Center with five School- Based sites in the City of Newark providing comprehensive medical, dental, GYN and counseling services at our sites. We set up the uninsured population of youth ages 0-21 with Medicaid, NJ Family Care, Charity Care; we also accept private insurance. For further information on our Newark sites, please call our Main number 973-679-7709.
The Bear Zone
Barringer High School
90 Parker St
Newark NJ 07104
973-497-5773
Monday – Friday
8:00am to 4:30pm
The Bear Zone Health Center at Barringer High School offers comprehensive medical care and youth counseling up to twenty one years of age. Our medication assistance program is hosted at this site in order to offer assistance to our families. The surrounding community, local non for profit organizations and students are served all year round. Our program offers our families the convenience of having a health center to call their own.
The Health Zone
George Washington Carver
333 Clinton Place
Newark NJ 07112
973-705-3880
Monday – Friday
8:00am to 5:00 pm
The Health Zone at George Washington Carver offers comprehensive medical, youth counseling and dental care up to twenty one years of age. The surrounding community, local non for profit organization and students are served all year round. Our program offers our families the convenience of having a health center to call their own.
The Teen Health Center
Malcolm X Shabazz High School
80 Johnson Ave.
Newark NJ 07108
973-623-8592
Monday – Friday
8:00 am to 5:00pm
1st Saturday/Month
9:00am to 1:00pm
The Teen Health Center at Malcolm X Shabazz high school offers comprehensive medical care and youth counseling services through behavioral health up to twenty one years of age; dental services are coming soon!
This satellite office offers these services to the entire surrounding community, local non for profit organizations and students. Our services are conveniently offered to our patients every first Saturday of the month.
Our program offers our families the convenience of having a health center to call their own.
The Health Place
Quitman Street School
21 Quitman St
Newark NJ 07103
973-424-4329
Monday – Friday
8:00am to 5:00pm
Tuesday
12:00pm to 8:00pm
2nd Saturday/ Month
9:00 am to 1:00pm
The Health Place at Quitman Street School offers comprehensive medical and dental care, youth counseling and behavioral health up to twenty one years of age. Our satellite office offers these services to the entire surrounding community, local non for profit organizations and students. In order to make our services more convenient for our patients we offer services every 2nd Saturday of the month and one late night every Tuesday. Our program offers our families the convenience of having a health center to call their own.
The Health Place
Quitman Street Elementary School
21 Quitman Street, Newark, NJ 07103
(973) 424-4329
(973) 824-2097 fax
Teen Health Center
Malcolm X Shabazz High School
80 Johnson Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103
The Health Zone
George Washington Carver Elementary School
333 Clinton Place, Newark, NJ 07112
The Rainbow Room
Dayton Street Elementary School
226 Dayton Street, Newark, NJ 07114
The Bear Zone
Barringer High School
90 Parker Street, Newark, NJ 07104
The Hansen Building PACE Center
415 Fayette Street, Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
Mobile Dental Van
Middlesex County
Media
For media inquiries, please contact Jennifer Crutchfield at 732-376-6611 or via email at jcrutchfield@jrmc.us
Monthly Newsletters
News/Press
Newark’s School-Based Health Centers: A well-kept secret!
Dome PR Invite Letter
First Lady of the Republic of Georgia
Home News Tribune
JRMC Press Release – June 2009
JRMC Press Release – October 2009
JRMC DOME Press Release
Media Advisory
New Jersey Real-Time News Article
Videos
Donors
Sponsorships
This page is dedicated to our past, present and future sponsors as a thank you for your continued support and commitment to our efforts. The assistance received from the people and organizations such as yourself, has enabled us to provide some of the best medical services in the area.
You can be guaranteed that a 100% of all proceeds and donations received go towards servicing our uninsured and underinsured patients of the Medical Center.
If you or your organization is interested in making a donation or interested in possible sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to either do so online www.jrmc.us or you may contact Jennifer Crutchfield at 732-376-6611.
Again, thank you for your support.
Events
Wellness Wednesday’s
- The 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month a program, specific to our initiatives, will be available for our patients and community to participate. The programs will be held in the 2nd floor community room.
- Some of our initiatives include: Diabetes, Childhood Obesity & Hypertension
2012 Events
Come Celebrate the 2012 events with the Jewish Renaissance Family of Organizations
JANUARY 28, 2012
HOLIDAY STAFF PARTY
Woodbridge Hilton
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
WINE & CHEESE SOCIAL
Terraza’s Restaurant
MARCH 8, 2012
COMEDY NIGHT
Rumor 35 Lounge & Sushi Bar
2090 Route 35, South Amboy NJ
APRIL 28, 2012
FASHION SHOW
PROM NIGHT “Dedicated to Boys & Girls”
The Seabras Armoury
200 Front Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
MAY 6, 2012
GOLDEN AGE FASHION SHOW
The Seabras Armoury
200 Front Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
JUNE 18, 2012
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Maplewood Country Club
28 Baker Street, Maplewood, NJ
JULY 14 & 15, 2012
2012 FESTIVAL
275 Hobart Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
AUGUST 2012
HEALTH FAIR
275 Hobart Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
To be announced
AUGUST 2, 2012
CASINO NIGHT
The Seabras Armoury
200 Front Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
AUGUST 6-11, 2012
NATIONAL HEALTH CENTER WEEK
275 Hobart Street, Perth Amboy, NJ
OCTOBER 11, 2012
GALA NIGHT
Liberty State House
76 Audrey Zapp Drive, Jersey City NJ
DECEMBER 6, 2012
HOLIDAY OF FUN
2nd Floor Community Room
DECEMBER 13, 2012
SPONSORS & FUNDERS APPRECIATION EVENT
2nd Floor Community Room
