Agency Details:

Muscular Dystrophy Association

MDA serves people effected with neuromuscular disease.

Description:
Since its founding in 1950, the Muscular Dystrophy Association has become one of the nation's largest and best-known voluntary health agencies. MDA provides comprehensive medical services to tens of thousands of people with neuromuscular diseases at some 230 hospital-affiliated clinics across the county. The Association's worldwide research program, which funds some 400 individual scientific investigations annually, represents the largest single effort to advance knowledge of neuromuscular diseases and to find cures and treatments for them.

History:
Since its founding in 1950, the Muscular Dystrophy Association has become one of the nation's largest and best-known voluntary health agencies. MDA provides comprehensive medical services to tens of thousands of people with neuromuscular diseases at some 230 hospital-affiliated clinics across the county. The Association's worldwide research program, which funds some 400 individual scientific investigations annually, represents the largest single effort to advance knowledge of neuromuscular diseases and to find cures and treatments for them. We assist in the purchase of wheel chairs, leg braces, communication devices, and OT,PT and Res. T evaluations.

Contact person: Gloria English, Health Care Service Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (914) 345-5845

Address:

7 Skyline Drive Hawthorne, NY 10532 (See a map)

Web Site: http://mdausa.org

Directions:

Take Exit 25 off of Sawmill Parkway. Take a Left at the light. take a Right at next light. Up hill. Buliding #7 , go to the 2nd floor. Make left out of elevator.   Nearest Bus Stop: 27, 1/4 minute walk

Last updated on August 10, 2009