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Boston Society of Pediatric Medicine Chair Visits Rambam to Learn about Pediatric COVID-19 Treatment Experiences
May 15, 2022 – The cities of Haifa and Boston have been connected for more than 30 years, with academic collaborations, student exchanges, municipal cooperation, and more. Dr. Margaret Fry, Chair of the Boston Society of Pediatric Medicine, recently visited Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus in order to learn how its medical staff dealt with the challenge of successive waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fry was greeted at the hospital…
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Israeli Field Hospital Delegation in Ukraine Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with Local Jewish Community
April 28, 2022 – Members of the Israeli delegation to the Kochav Meir Field Hospital in Western Ukraine held a memorial service on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, at a killing field near the field hospital. A delegation of medical personnel at the Kochav Meir Field Hospital in Ukraine, headed by Deputy Director of Rambam Health Care Campus Dr. Michal Mekel, is completing its stint at the hospital today. Just before their return to…
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Rambam Mourns the Loss of Eitan Wertheimer
Rambam Health Care Campus deeply mourns the death of the late Eitan Wertheimer – a partner, true friend, and one of the founding fathers of the hospital’s present-day campus. Eitan was involved with Rambam for more than two decades, and his tremendous vision, activity, and contributions can be found throughout the campus. We invite you to watch the video below, showing Rambam’s General Director Professor Michael Halberthal offering a heartfelt tribute to Eitan Wertheimer. May…
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First in Northern Israel: A New Service for Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Liver Diseases
April 11, 2022 – Leading the new service will be Professor Ronen Arnon, an internationally recognized pediatric liver disease specialist who recently joined Rambam Health Care Campus as a senior physician and Head of the Pediatric Liver, Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition Institute in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital. To meet the growing needs of Northern Israel, Rambam has established a new service for diagnosing and treating pediatric liver diseases. This unique service focuses on the many…
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Mother and Daughter Give Birth within Days of Each Other
April 7, 2022 – Twice the joy at Rambam Health Care Campus: A Haifa resident gave birth to a son and then became a grandmother when her daughter gave birth to a baby girl one week later. Patricia Rachel Ben Dahan, 43, a resident of Haifa, visited the Obstetrics & Gynecology Division at Rambam twice in recent days – once to give birth to her sixth child and a second time to attend the birth…
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Professor Irit Ben-Aharon Awarded Grant for Pancreatic Cancer Research
April 4, 2022 – Metastatic pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease with low life expectancy and especially poor quality of life. A new research grant will seek ways to improve those statistics. Professor Irit Ben-Aharon, Director of the Joseph Fishman Oncology Center at Rambam Health Care Campus, has been awarded a research grant of €250,000 from the European Union to investigate the use of technologies that actively monitor physical activity, nutrition, and sarcopenia (a progressive…
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Near and Far: Rambam Employees Play Key Role in Mental Health Hotline for Ukrainians
March 28, 2022 – For almost four weeks now, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals have been volunteering 24/7 to staff a hotline for Ukrainian residents in need of mental health support. Jenia Pukshansky, a social worker and psychotherapist, is behind a private initiative to create a hotline offering psychological support for Ukrainian residents either currently living under fire or who have left their homes and become refugees. She has been joined by…
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett Visits Elite Fighters Hospitalized at Rambam
April 4, 2022 – Today’s visit by Prime Minister Bennett—who was accompanied by the Border Police Chief, the Deputy Police Commissioner, the Commander of Israel’s National Counter Terror Unit, and the Commander of the Commando Brigade—follows a visit on Saturday by Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spent time at Rambam Health Care Campus earlier today, visiting with two members of an elite counter-terrorism unit (including the unit’s commander) who were wounded…
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From Superheroes to Rubik’s Cubes: Purim Celebrations at Rambam
March 16, 2022 – In Israel, the days leading up to Purim are filled with merriment, and many of the staff members and patients at Rambam Health Care Campus were happy to join in the fun! Festivities have been held across the campus, and some of the highlights are below. A Costume for Every Child Hundreds of new Purim costumes were waiting for patients hospitalized in Rambam’s Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital earlier this week, donated…
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Bonds of Friendship: Rambam Employee Rescues Son of Childhood Friend from Ukraine and Brings Him to Israel
March 14, 2022 – Rambam Health Care Campus Nursing Administration employee Masha Bozhko speaks to the Israeli Hebrew-language news site “ynet”, sharing how she decided to rescue the son of her childhood friend from the war zone in Ukraine. Alexander “Sasha” Artushenko, a 16-year-old boy from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, has been left alone at home since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His parents are senior surgeons, working around the clock in the city’s…
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Toys, Warm Clothes and Lots of Love: Rambam Employees Donate to Refugees from Ukraine
March 10, 2022 – The delivery, a donation intended for refugees from the war in Ukraine, who will be receiving assistance from the absorption center, is the second to leave Rambam for this important cause. Yesterday, dozens of boxes containing clothing, blankets, toys, toiletries, and other essentials made their way from Rambam Health Care Campus to the Haifa Absorption Center. The donation was initiated by Rambam’s Psychological Service, which recruited the Division of Human Resource’s…
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“Technion-Rambam Hack: Machine Learning in Healthcare” Conference Held at Rambam Health Care Campus
March 9, 2022 –The conference was the first event held by the newly established Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. MIT Professor Leo Anthony Celi addressed the conference on the topic of ensuring that machine learning for healthcare works for everyone. Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology are setting up a new joint Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) that will signal a revolution in medical…
