Supporting High Impact Solutions to Medical and Humanitarian
Challenges in Israel and Worldwide
The American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center is an organization established to promote and support the Rambam Health Care Campus — a premier medical institution in Israel.
Rambam in the News
First Hugs: Rambam Volunteers Provide Warmth and Love to Abandoned Babies
March 27, 2023 – Every year, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, treats more than 20 abandoned babies—those who are hospitalized for long periods of time with no relative to care for them, in
36 New Beds to Make Rambam‘s Neurology Section the Largest of Its Kind in Israel
March 24, 2023 – The country wide reality of a shortage in hospital beds is placing enormous pressure on Israel’s public healthcare system. In a dramatic move, Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, has
Against All Odds: CAR-T Therapy at Rambam Saves Desperate Cancer Patient
March 23, 2023 – Critically ill in St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-year-old Kalim Agrakov was not responding to cancer treatment. However, a breakthrough procedure offered at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel, saved his life.
Rambam Establishes National, Virtual Support Clinic for Treating Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia
March 13, 2023 – Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam) in Haifa, Israel recently opened a much-needed virtual clinic for treating the behavioral symptoms of dementia to provide rapid and vital support for patients and their caregivers.
Recent Events
Join us in Celebrating Rambam’s 85th Anniversary
The Rambam Summit Experience May 30 – June 1, 2023 What You Can Expect The Rambam Summit extends a red carpet to its friends from around the world, with an exciting and event-packed program of riveting
Coming Soon: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of David Morovati in Los Angeles
Sunday, March 19: Los Angeles Please join us for an unforgettable afternoon and fundraiser benefitting the new Emergency Room for cancer patients at Rambam Health Care Campus. Please click here to view the invitation and to
Haifa: The Israeli Capital for a Bioconvergence Revolution
November 6, 2022 – In Los Altos, California American Friends of Rambam and the American Technion Society co-hosted a dynamic presentation with Rambam’s Yona Vaisbuch, MD, Founder of the Biodesign Israel Center. Dr. Vaisbuch spoke about
Rambam and Stanford Medicine Specialists Focus on Advancing Medical Innovation, Digital Technologies, and Trauma Care at Joint Symposium
A joint Rambam and Stanford Medicine Symposium that focused on innovations in healthcare, trauma care, and digital technologies was held at Rambam Health Care Campus at the end of June. Attendees discussed critical topics to set
Showcasing RAMBAM
Rambam Health Care Campus provides a variety of services ranging from patient care, training of medical professionals, in a variety of specialties, to collaborative international research impacting the world of medicine.
Changing the World through the Gift of Life
Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital
Supporting the 2000 Bed Campaign
The Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital
Keeping Hearts Beating
The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
Turning Tears to Smiles
The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center
Supporting Cancer Care with Dignity
The Helmsley Health Discovery Tower
Shaping the Future of Medicine
Rambam Facts
Named for 12th century physician-philosopher Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides/ the RAMBAM), Rambam Health Care Campus is located in Haifa, a city known for cultural and religious pluralism and tolerance.
Rambam is Northern Israel’s largest and most advanced medical campus, serving more than two million people and the referral center for twelve district hospitals.
Rambam treats more trauma patients than any other hospital in the nation, and its percentage of trauma survivors is the highest in Israel.
Located only 25 miles from the northern border, we are the referral hospital for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command, the US Navy Sixth Fleet, and the UN Peacekeeping Forces posted in the region.
The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital at Rambam is the largest of its kind in the world.
More than 3,000 health professionals from 61 countries have trained at our Teaching Center for Trauma Emergency and Mass Casualty Situations.
The world’s first human embryonic stem cell line was co-developed at Rambam, and the world’s first cardiac stem cells were created here. The world’s first human embryonic stem cell line was co-developed at Rambam, and the world’s first cardiac stem cells were created here.
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (RMMJ), launched in 2010, is the first ever medical center affiliated scientific journal to be published in Israel.
Sick children from neighboring Arab countries receive medical treatment unavailable to them at home, thanks to our Middle East outreach program.
The Prometheus computerized patient-record system for paperless hospital quality management and monitoring of patient medical files was developed and marketed by Rambam.
Israel’s first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004) laureates, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Professors Ciechanover and Hershko, have nurtured their scientific curiosity and achievements here, on the Rambam campus.
Rambam’s proximity to Northern Israel’s high tech scientific industrial parks has enabled R&D partnerships that have contributed to the country’s eminence in biomedicine and the life sciences.
For the first time in Israel, doctors at Rambam Medical Center performed a breakthrough procedure to treat Essential Tremor (ET), developed by InSightec, using MRI-guided ultrasound rather than performing surgery.
