The original Beth Abraham Home for the Incurably Sick was founded in memory of Avraham Eliezer Alperstein by his wife Bertha in 1920.. In 1963, Beth Abraham began "an active affiliation with a neighboring teaching institution, Montefiore Hospital". In 1996, The New York Times wrote that "the 520-bed Bronx hospital" was opening new facilities in Westchester County and in Manhattan..