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
Rambam Presents: Dramatic Improvement in Heart Catheterization Precision
After months of focusing on patients suffering from the deadly coronavirus, Rambam Health Care Campus is now returning to full medical operations. This process includes the acquisition of state-of-the-art medical equipment, like Rambam’s new cardiac catheterization
Back Surgery at Rambam: More Precise, with Real-time Images and Less Radiation
The Spinal Column Unit of the Orthopedic Surgery Section at Rambam recently received the most advanced imaging machine of its kind, a next-generation O-arm that allows surgical teams to acquire precise three-dimensional images that dramatically improve
The Rambam Doctor Who Won’t Stop Running: 166 Kilometers in One Night
Some people get tired of driving long distances, but Rambam senior physician Dr. Reuven Ishai ran for 166 consecutive kilometers in one night to raise awareness of the problems of dizziness and loss of balance, and
President Rivlin Visits Rambam’s COVID-19 Command Center
The President of the State of Israel, Mr. Reuven Rivlin, visited Rambam Health Care Campus and met with representatives of the hospital’s administration, including Rambam General Director Dr. Michael Halberthal and his deputies, who presented the
Recent Events
Virtual Emergency Preparedness Symposium: November 9-11
Please join us for our annual Stanford Medicine–Rambam Health Care Campus Symposium! This year’s theme is Disaster Preparedness and Lessons Learned from the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and aims to examine how our practices,
Rambam Physicians Discuss Biodesign and Israeli Innovation in Webinar Held by AFORAM and CICC
September 8, 2020 – A webinar titled “Strengthening Global Collaboration – How Stanford Biodesign and Rambam Biodesign Programs Help Boost Israeli Innovation” was recently hosted by American Friends of Rambam (AFORAM) and the California Israel Chamber
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.
Video Gallery
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.
