Rambam Health Care Campus
Rambam Health Care Campus (Hebrew: רמב"ם - הקריה הרפואית לבריאות האדם) commonly called Rambam Hospital, is a teaching hospital in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa, Israel. Rambam Health Care Campus is a part of Tertiary Referral Center for Northern Israel, It was founded in 1938, in Palestine, 10 years before the establishment of the State of Israel.
Rambam Health Care Campus
public, government, and non-profit
district general, teaching
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1938
It is the largest medical center in northern Israel and fifth largest in Israel,[1] and is named for the 12th century physician-philosopher Maimonides, known as Rambam.[2]
Rambam Health Care Campus is also an academic teaching hospital affiliated with the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel's oldest university.
Facilities[edit]
Rambam Hospital serves as a referral medical center and level I trauma center,[3][4] employing a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment. Some 80,000 people are hospitalized there every year, and another 600,000 are treated in its outpatient clinics and medical institutes.[5] The Technion's medical school is located adjacent to the hospital. The medical center has 36 departments with 1000 beds, 45 medical units, 9 institutes, 6 laboratories and 30 administrative and maintenance departments. Comprehensive services for all of northern Israel include trauma treatment, oncology, and neurosurgery.
The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital officially opened in its peacetime configuration in 2014, following a successful drill to test emergency preparedness.[6] Work on this fortified emergency underground hospital began in 2010; it was designed to withstand conventional, chemical, and biological attacks. Planning for this project began in 2007. The project includes a three-floor parking lot that can be transformed within 72 hours into a 2,000-bed hospital. Made possible through a donation by the late Sammy Ofer,[7] the hospital can generate its own power and store enough oxygen, drinking water and medical supplies for up to three days.[8]
The Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital has the largest pediatric emergency department in the north of Israel.[9] This nine-story hospital, named for Ruth Rappaport, wife of banker and financier Bruce Rappaport, replaces the current Meyer Children's Hospital, providing additional pediatric facilities. In addition to new patient wards, there is a museum, classrooms and a movie theater.
The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center opened on June 20, 2016. The facility has nine floors and 10,000 square meters of space for providing a variety of cancer treatments for patients.[10]
As an academic hospital, Rambam engages in teaching and research collaboration with the Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine.[11]
Services[edit]
Leading departments at Rambam Health Care Campus include oncology and hemato-oncology, cardiac surgery, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. Rambam is the only provider of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and brachiotherapy in Northern Israel. Other services unique to hospitals in Northern Israel include robotic surgery.[21]
Rambam's Department of International Medicine was established in 1995. The large number of patients received from the former Soviet Union has led to the hospital providing a separate Russian-language website for this department. Rambam's medical tourism center is one of the largest in Israel.[22]
Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is an international quarterly publication coordinated by Rambam Health Care Campus.