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Rambam Conducts Operation with IDF and Soroka to Bring Week-old Baby on ECMO to Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
February 7, 2022 – While drawing attention to the shortage of ECMO devices in Israel, this story also highlights the life-saving cooperation and coordination that exists between the ECMO units and intensive care units across Israel. One night last week, a group of doctors, nurses and technicians emerged from an IDF Yasur helicopter that landed
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Nine-year-old Girl Donates Gifts to Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital
January 25, 2022 – The “Gift Room” in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital, maintains a large supply of toys, games, and gifts are for the facility’s patients. This project is supported by the donations of many dedicated partners and friends. Nine-year-old Mika Riboyat and her classmates in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Motzkin have a
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Meeting at Rambam Highlights Importance of Haifa’s Innovation District
January 13, 2022 – Haifa’s Innovation District will serve to promote an innovation ecosystem that will enhance the city’s economic development and help to create jobs. A working meeting was recently held with Israel’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Alon Schuster; representatives of Haifa’s Port Innovation District; the Mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalisch-Rotem; Haifa Deputy
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Spiritual Care Plays Critical Role for Parents of Preemies
January 10, 2022 – The Spiritual Care Service at Rambam Health Care Campus is designed to meet the spiritual, emotional and religious needs of all patients and their families. Acquiring an understanding of a patient’s social, emotional, and spiritual needs (including religious beliefs), forging a connection with the patient, and making arrangements to meet these
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Laptops Donated to Pediatric Oncology Patients
January 6, 2022 – The Yemin Saad Association has close to 300 volunteers, and carries out a variety of activities throughout the year, including vacations and fun days for sick children and their families, flights over Israel, fulfillment of wishes and requests, and even meetings between children and celebrities. A campaign to provide laptop computers
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Research and Innovation Updates from Rambam MedTech Ltd.
December 26, 2021 – The activities of Rambam MedTech Ltd., Rambam Health Care Campus’s technology transfer company, have advanced a number of significant medical research and development initiatives conceived by Rambam physician-scientists over the past few months. Rambam MedTech Ltd. is responsible for managing the innovation and intellectual property that belongs to Rambam’s doctors and
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Doctoral Candidates Among Nurses Who Received Scholarships at Rambam’s Cheryl Spencer Scholarship Awards Ceremony
December 21, 2021 – The Cheryl Spencer Scholarship Awards Ceremony was established by Irma (z”l) and Aaron Spencer to honor the memory of their daughter Cheryl (z”l), a young nursing student whose life was tragically cut short, and carry on her life’s mission. A joint scholarship awards ceremony was held to honor outstanding nurses engaged
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Parents Who Lost Premature Twins Celebrate Successful Birth with Rambam NICU Team
December 16, 2021 – Nearly a decade after losing twin babies born prematurely, Dana Naor gave birth to a healthy daughter with support from the medical team that fought to save the lives of her first-born son and daughter. Nine years after losing their eldest children – a set of fraternal boy-girl twins born prematurely,
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Increase in the Number of New AIDS Patients Compared to Last Year
December 12, 2021 – The HIV virus can be transmitted via direct contact between bodily fluids – unprotected sex, drug injections, blood transfusions, and open wounds. It cannot be transmitted through the air, food, drinks, or via regular physical contact. World AIDS Day is marked every year on December 1st. This year, the AIDS Unit
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Rambam Participates in 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
December 6, 2021 – The Department of Social Work at Rambam Health Care Campus, in collaboration with the Institutional Committee for the Prevention of Violence against Women, launched a campaign to increase awareness of the wave of violence against women. Rambam Health Care Campus recently marked the 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Violence
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Prior to Recent Border Closing Due to Omicron, Rambam Held First International Course Since Pandemic Began
December 1, 2021 – All international courses had been discontinued as a result of the pandemic, but days prior to the discovery of the Omicron variant and the government’s subsequent recent decision to close the borders to non-Israelis, Rambam welcomed international course participants. Shortly before the COVID-19 Omicron variant caused Israel and other countries to
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Israeli Medical Delegation Visits Romania to Help with COVID-19
November 22, 2021 – The Israeli delegation’s objective was to help local Romanian health care teams cope with the high levels of illness caused by the fourth wave of the COVID-19 now engulfing the nation. An Israeli delegation of five physicians headed by Dr. Rami Sagi, Deputy Head of the Hospital Division of the Israeli
