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Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation's Parent Company Now Called CenterLight

The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation's parent company has changed its name to the CenterLight Health System.

The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation's parent organization, the Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, has been renamed CenterLight Health System.

About 200 employees at the health facility on Classon Avenue at Prospect Place, toasted to the sign’s unveiling at an announcement ceremony on Monday.

The CenterLight Health System provides and manages long-term care services for disabled and chronically ill New Yorkers, with 40 healthcare facilities in Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, Westchester and Long Island.

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The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation provides nursing and rehabilitation services to more than 300 patients. CNR will keep its name, but will add identification as “an affiliate of CenterLight Health System” on all branding.

“The name CenterLight captures our organization’s long-standing commitment to healthcare that is uniquely focused on the patient, innovative in its approach and delivered with compassion and a commitment to quality,” President and CEO Michael Fassler said in a written  statement. “Offering a broad continuum of services under a single brand will make it easier for patients and their families to understand and access the programs that meet their individual needs.”

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