Hebrew Rehabilitation Center

Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, doing business as Hebrew Senior Life, is a nonprofit research institution and clinical organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, that conducts federally funded clinical and health services research as both a prime recipient of research grants and a subrecipient on larger multi-institutional studies, with no federal contracts in its footprint. The organization operates as a tax-exempt corporate entity and does not carry SBA designations.

Hebrew Senior Life's federal footprint is dominated by grant work, particularly through its Marcus Institute for Aging Research, which anchors a research program focused on gerontology, frailty assessment, dementia prevention, and post-acute care outcomes. As a prime recipient, the organization has received recent awards from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) for clinical trials and observational studies including a $318,000 pilot study on home-based dual-task gait assessment in older adults at risk of dementia (CFDA 93.866, awarded August 2026), a $437,250 validation study of frailty definitions in Medicare Advantage quality metrics (CFDA 93.866, July 2026), a $729,000 project to adapt and pilot an Integrated Care for Older Persons (ICOPE) protocol for post-acute skilled nursing facilities (CFDA 93.866, September 2025), and a $318,000 study on home-based transcranial electrical stimulation for cognitive and motor function in older adults with increased dementia risk (CFDA 93.866, September 2024). Additional prime awards include NIA-funded research on medication substitution during post-acute care, low-income older adult thermal home environment health impacts, and atrial fibrillation stroke prevention outcomes in frail populations; work on probiotic and prebiotic supplements for bone loss management; and a cooperative agreement with the Administration on Aging for elder shelter services and trauma-informed housing placement (September 2024). The organization also receives recurring sub-awards from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for child and elderly nutrition programs, reflecting its role as an operational component of a larger health services ecosystem.

Customer concentration is pronounced and NIA-specific. The National Institute on Aging accounts for 112 awards across the portfolio (92% of the tracked set by count, covering both prime grants and sub-awards); the broader National Institutes of Health portfolio adds 30 additional awards. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (24 awards) and the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (12 awards) represent secondary customer relationships. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 holds eight awards with $112 thousand in combined potential value under a Basic Ordering Agreement (VA24117G0016), which is the only named parent vehicle in the source data.

Activity has grown substantially in recent years, from 19 awards in 2022 to a peak of 44 in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 show moderation (17 and 9 awards respectively). Fifteen awards are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity across that window. The organization's split between prime and sub-award roles is nearly even—96 prime awards (47%) and 107 sub-awards (53%)—which reflects its dual posture as both a research entity in its own right and a key faculty and infrastructure contributor to larger multi-site studies led by research universities and medical centers.

Hebrew Senior Life's sub-award activity surfaces participation in major research networks anchored by Brown University, Harvard-affiliated institutions (President and Fellows of Harvard College, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), and other regional academic medical centers. As a subrecipient, the organization provides geriatric clinical expertise, data analytics and biostatistical support, patient recruitment and retention, regulatory coordination, and advisory services on frailty measurement, functional outcomes assessment, geriatric pharmacoepidemiology, and delirium and cognitive decline. Named sub-award relationships include the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Brown University prime, core coordination and administration), an AD/ADRD Collaboratory (Brown University prime), the Translational Geroscience Network (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center prime), and multiple sub-awards with Brown University and other institutions supporting research on osteoporosis therapeutics, drug interactions in nursing home residents with dementia, blood pressure management strategies in nursing homes, and longitudinal cognitive trajectory studies. Recent sub-awards reflect the organization's role as both a clinical research site for recruitment and assessment and as a quantitative science and biostatistics resource, with faculty providing statistical design, data harmonization, analysis, manuscript preparation, and research training support.