Worldwide, ongoing work pressures place healthcare employees at high risk for burnout, and this is equally the case for Israeli healthcare professionals. Integral to the core values of Rambam Health Care Campus is providing employees with the tools they need to deal with the daily pressures of their work. The growing number of patients in…
Researchers in the Center for Cannabis Research at Rambam Health Care Campus, led by the center’s Director Dr. Igal Louria-Hayon, hope to study the effects of cannabis use on severely ill COVID-19 patients in clinical trials scheduled to begin in the next few months. Preliminary investigations indicate that several types of cannabis may have the…
ISCAR, one of Rambam’s major supporters, provided an innovative solution for the hospital’s ventilator shortage during the COVID-19 crisis. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Operations and Maintenance at Rambam Health Care Campus discovered that seven of the hospital’s 125 ventilators were faulty. Given the restrictions in place as well as…
Professor Itai Shavit, Director of the Cheryl Spencer Pediatric Emergency Department in Rambam Health Care Campus’s Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, is the senior author on a study cited in a New York Times article about the need for healthcare workers to ensure that no skin is exposed while managing patients’ airways or treating any patient…
A platform created by a team jointly led by Rambam’s Dr. Oren Caspi and others enables authorities to identify geographic locations at high risk for COVID-19 outbreaks. A joint research team from Rambam Health Care Campus, the B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the faculty of electrical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the…
