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Mass Casualty Expertise Puts Global Lens on Rambam
Times of Israel Blog Post by Richard S. Hirschhaut Sirens wailing, doctors and nurses wearing gas masks, an underground parking garage transformed into a surgery-ready hospital. What could have been scenes from a disaster movie was business as usual last month at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The backdrop was the annual Emergency Preparedness Drill, organized in cooperation with the IDF, the Israel Ministry of Defense Home Front Command, and other government agencies. The Emergency…
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His Ankle Replaces Knee Function After Rare Surgery at Rambam
After amputation of his knee and mid-leg, Jacob A. underwent a rare operation at Rambam Health Care Campus, fusing his ankle to his upper leg, only backward. His new “knee” should return him to full ambulatory independence with the aid of a prosthesis. Rotationplasty is an uncommon surgery where a portion of a limb is removed while the remaining limb is rotated and reattached. Tens of operations take place globally in only a handful of…
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Rambam Wartime Anniversaries Trigger Increased Symptoms in Vets with PTSD
Rambam: Soldiers and Veterans with PTSD Have Worsening Symptoms with Approach of Anniversaries of Lebanon and Gaza Wars During the months of June-August, there is a noticeable increase in the appeals of soldiers and veterans who suffer from PTSD due to worsening symptoms, according to the patients at the Medical Unit of the psychiatric division at Rambam Hospital in northern Israel. The trigger at this time of year, according to the clinic’s experts, is the…
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Remarkable Rambam, The Jerusalem Report July 2018
Israel REMARKABLE RAMBAM An underground hospital in Haifa is ready for anything By Linda Gradstein THE JERUSALEM REPORT JULY 23, 2018 IT LOOKS like any other upscale parking garage if a bit cleaner than most. But this parking garage can become an underground hospital that can hold more than 1,700 patients and is safe from conventional, biological or chemical attack. It goes deep under the Mediterranean Sea and is connected to the Rambam Medical Center…
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Only Clinic North of Tel Aviv for BRCA Gene Carriers Opens at Rambam
A new women’s clinic has opened at Rambam, providing BRCA1/2 carriers with access to specialists and comprehensive follow-up – all under one roof. The clinic meets a critical need as it is the only such facility north of Tel Aviv. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in Israel and the Western world. Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are tens of times more likely to develop breast, ovarian and other cancers. To date,…
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A Lesson in Epilepsy
A special school event in Haifa, led by senior physicians from Rambam Health Care Campus, focused on raising awareness of epilepsy and educating children so as to remove their misconceptions and fears related to this condition. Children at the epilepsy event with the Rambam team at the Yizraelia school in Haifa. (L-R): Yael Safran, Laura Bahagi, Dr. Mony Benifla and Aviva Feldman-Bahagi.Photo Credit: Courtesy of Rambam HCC. Hundreds of students from Haifa’s Izraelia Elementary School, participated this…
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Largest Hospital in Northern Israel Prepares for War
The Scenario: Faced with the threat of missile attacks, Rambam Health Care Campus, Northern Israel’s largest hospital will have to move underground. Care Campus with the scenario of a missile attack on the Haifa area, forcing the only referral hospital in the north to transfer operations to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This unique facility, the largest of its kind in the world, normally operates as the hospital’s parking lot, but in wartime…
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Live from Rambam’s Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The 19th Horizons in Interventional Cardiology conference at Rambam furthered the anticipation for completion of the new Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital. Live cardiac catheterization procedures were broadcast and discussed. Against the background of large investments by pharmaceutical companies in medical research, construction of the new Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus, and with a clear agenda of medical and therapeutic innovation, the 19th Horizons in Interventional Cardiology conference took at Rambam last week…
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Local Experience—International Solution
While a Rambam doctor works in Central America at the site of the catastrophic volcano eruption, dozens of senior officials from around the world are learning how to cope with disasters at the Haifa hospital. Dr. Eyal Fuchs, a senior physician in the Lung Institute at Rambam left for Central America last weekend as part of an Israeli aid delegation officially sent to the volcano disaster area in Guatemala. In parallel, representatives of two South…
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Being First in Research is Mandatory
Rambam placed first in 2017 for obtaining funds for clinical trials investments from pharmaceutical companies. In this case, being first holds out promise of new discovery benefitting patients worldwide. A 2017 report on clinical studies by the Israeli Ministry of Health noted that investments by pharmaceutical companies for clinical trials in Israeli hospitals are increasing. Rambam was listed in first place, attracting NIS 159 million in clinical trial investments. The two most heavily funded studies…
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Born in Critical Condition, Bat-El Meets Rambam Team that Saved Her
Bat-El Eden Shabtai, a young Israeli living in the USA, celebrated her 20th birthday in an unusual place, Rambam’s neonatal ICU. The reason? An emotional meeting with those who saved her life when she was only a few hours old. The Department of Neonatology and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam has witnessed many personal victories for our tiny patients. However, the story of Bat-El Eden Shabtai,…
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Rambam Innovation Award
The Rambam Innovation Award is a joint initiative between the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) and American Friends of Rambam Medical Center. During the annual CIJE Innovation Day, a Jewish high school competition in the New York tri-state area, students were challenged to create a project that would correlate to Rambam’s work in emergency preparedness and response to disasters, whether natural or man-made, including mass casualty situations. The winning team was from the…
