Health Minister Uriel Bosso and Health Ministry Director General Moshe Baran Siman Tov visit Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh)

Health Minister Uriel Bosso and Health Ministry Director General Moshe Baran Siman Tov visited Shamir Medical Center

Health Minister Uriel Bosso and Health Ministry Director General Moshe Baran Siman Tov visited Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) today. The dignitaries met with Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach, Director of Shamir Medical Center, and together they toured the protected underground hospital complex, the three underground operating rooms, and met with the doctors and nurses hospitalized in […]

For the first time in Israel: Artificial heart is transplanted successfully

HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center doctors are hard at work inserting an artificial heart into a patient, last week.(Hadassah-University Medical Center) (photo credit: Hadassah-University Medical Center)

For the first time in Israel, the successful transplant of a completely artificial heart was performed at Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem in a 63-year-old patient who would have otherwise died. The patient’s heart was removed from his body and replaced with a special artificial heart made of titanium combined with biological animal tissues and […]

Emergency Shutdown At Several WIZO Schools Including CHW Nahalal Youth Village

Nahalal Emergency Shutdown

Due to the emergency situation in northern Israel right now, WIZO’s Emergency Committee met last night to review Israel’s Home Front Command directives and discuss how to implement them. As of this morning, all educational institutions, including CHW Nahalal Youth Village, and 20 daycare centres, as well as 11 of WIZO’s Israel school branches are […]

Miraculous kidney donation at Hadassah Hospital

Miraculous kidney donation at Hadassah Hospital The miraculous kidney donation began in the middle of the night at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem. It was managed and coordinated by the National Transplant Center. Dr. Tamar Ashkenazi, director of the National Transplant Center, was in charge of coordinating the transplant.  Alongside her […]

Wounded warriors find ways to heal at Hadassah’s new Gandel Rehab Center

Gandel Rehab Center

Wounded warriors find ways to heal at Hadassah’s new Gandel Rehab Center February 2024 “It’s been very meaningful that we are about the same age and in the same situation, all working together to get back from this hard time,” says a 29-year-old recovering Israeli soldier and yeshivah student. It’s late afternoon and among the […]

Hadassah opens new Gandel Rehabilitation Center four months early

Gandel Rehabilitation CEnter

Hadassah opens new Gandel Rehabilitation Center four months early as war stresses existing facilities February 2024 Hadassah’s new $137 million, multi-story rehabilitation center was scheduled to open in May on the medical organization’s Mount Scopus campus, the result of years of planning, fundraising and construction. But on the night of Oct. 7, seeing the devastation […]

New Gandel Rehab Center Welcomes First Patients

Gandel Rehab Center

New Gandel Rehab Center Welcomes First Patients January 2024 The sounds of Hadassah representatives clapping and singing “Shalom Aleichem” welcomed the first patients into the Gandel Rehab Center at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus on January 15, part of a phased opening of the new facility. These initial 12 patients in the War-Wounded Department will have […]

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