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Delegation of Moldovan Government and Medical Officials Visit Rambam to Study Emergency Situation Management
March 3, 2022 – Against the background of the war that broke out in Eastern Europe, a delegation of senior officials from Moldova visited Rambam Health Care Campus in order to understand how a hospital is run during emergency situations. A senior delegation from Moldova recently visited Rambam Health Care Campus to learn how the hospital manages emergency and mass casualty situations. In an extraordinary coincidence, the visit, which had been planned some time ago,…
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Fastest in the North, Fastest in Israel, and Fastest Worldwide – Lung Cancer Diagnosis at Rambam
February 15, 2022 – Rambam Health Care Campus recently opened a center for rapid lung cancer diagnosis, shortening the diagnostic process for patients suspected of having lung cancer to just 14 days from the patient’s first appointment until treatment begins. Until now, the average length of time for this process in Israel is three to six months, and in the US, the average is six months. This new center is the first facility of its…
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Rambam 2021 Gunshot Victim Statistics Show Increase in Northern Israel Shooting Incidents
February 10, 2022 – Rambam’s Trauma and Emergency Center, managed by Director Dr. Hany Bahouth, is one of the busiest trauma centers in Israel. Recently, several hours after doctors from the Trauma and Emergency Center at Rambam Health Care Campus presented a summary of the data regarding gunshot wound patients that the hospital received in 2021, three new patients with gunshot wounds from two different incidents were brought to the Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein Z”L Shock…
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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 on the helicopter pad at Rambam Health Care Campus, carefully holding an ECMO device whose tubes were connected to a…
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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 tradition when it comes to birthdays. At birthday parties, instead of bringing gifts, each child brings the same agreed upon…
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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 Mayor, Mr. Nachshon Tzuk; the Haifa City Engineer, and Rambam’s Director General, Professor Michael Halberthal. The meeting was held as…
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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 needs are all intrinsic to the treatment process. What do parents do when a baby is born prematurely or with…
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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 for pediatric patients in the Joan & Sanford Weill Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Ruth Rappaport…
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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 scientists, supporting the transformation of innovative ideas into leading products at an international level. The company does so by accompanying…
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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 in advanced academic studies at Rambam Health Care Campus’s School of Nursing. This is the 46th year in which the…
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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, Yigal Naor (47) and his wife Dana (40) recently became proud parents after Dana gave birth to a healthy daughter…
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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 at Rambam Health Care Campus chose to highlight several concerns that they have identified among the Unit’s patients during the…
