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Begun in 1907 in Montreal as the Russian-Polish Society, this landsmanschaft soon changed from a fraternal organization of newly arrived immigrants to a sick benefit association with close ties to the community. As one of the oldest Jewish fraternal organizations in North America, the Association provided gifts and helped its members celebrate special occasions. Broadening to a community organization, it provided mutual assistance, sick benefits, visits to ill members, burial lots, visits to the bereaved, funeral expenses, assistance to the aged, free loans, and aid to European Jews. By holding cultural events and through its membership, it was able to raise funds for these causes as well as for Israel. It was closely associated with the Hadrath Kodesh, Hadrath Yeshurun Synagogue and the Federation of Polish Jews.

The Maimonides Geriatric Centre was founded by the Jewish community of Montreal in 1910 under the name "Montreal Hebrew Sheltering Home." It was commonly referred to as the Moshav Zkainim, on Evans Street. By 1923, a second location was opened on City Hall avenue, named the B. & S. Steinhouse Old People's Home.

A larger building was secured by the Federation of Jewish Philantropies for the Sheltering Home, which moved to Esplanade Street in 1927. By the 1940s, the majority of residents in the Home were elderly, prompting the institution to rename to Maimonides Hospital and Home for the Aged. A new facility was built for the aging residents in Cote Saint Luc in 1964.

In 1977, the institution became the Maimonides Hospital Geriatric Centre and, in 1997, simply the Maimonides Geriatric Centre. Since 2011, the institution has been named Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre.