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Hadassah Hospitals in Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus have been receiving patients in recent hours from Soroka Medical Center

Hadassah Hospitals in Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus have been receiving patients in recent hours from Soroka Medical Center, which was struck by rocket fire this morning. The patients are being admitted to various departments across both Hadassah campuses and will receive treatment according to their condition.

A woman from Be’er Sheva arrived by MDA ambulance at Hadassah Ein Kerem, where she was admitted by the medical and nursing staff. She gave birth just a few days ago and yet separated from her baby, choosing to leave him with his grandmother in the south.
“There’s no point in bringing him here after what happened this morning. I hope to return to him quickly after the good treatment at Hadassah.”

Describing the incident this morning, she recounts: “We heard the alarm, and before we even got out of bed in the maternity ward, everything exploded with a big boom. There were screams all around me and many in shock. It was a difficult moment – a very, very hard experience. The teams immediately started moving everyone to shelters and protected areas, then went through one by one to check on everyone’s condition after the impact. Some were released, and some, like me, were sent to Hadassah hospitals.”

Prof. Yoram Weiss, Director General of Hadassah, notes that so far about ten patients from Soroka have been admitted.
“We welcome the patients from the South with love and warmth and are available to support our colleagues at Soroka in every way. The patients went through a difficult ordeal but were treated with professional and sensitive care at Soroka. At Hadassah, we are here for them for any physical or emotional wounds they are experiencing.

Hadassah hospitals in Ein Kerem and Mount ScopusThe transfer process is still ongoing, and according to reports, dozens more patients are expected to arrive. We will treat everyone optimally, as the Hadassah team is known for.”

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 the complex and their families.

Dr. Levtzion-Korach outlined to the Minister and Director General the medical center’s preparedness in times of emergency in general and at this time in particular.

Afterwards, the Minister of Health, the Director General of the Ministry and the Director General of the Medical Center conducted a tour of the protected compound of the Shamir Medical Center.

Minister of Health, MK Uriel Bosso: “I arrived at the Shamir Medical Center as part of an inspection of the hospitals’ preparedness and defenses for emergencies, and I was impressed by the preparation and professional work of the hospital management and the teams in the field. The Shamir Medical Center is an example of true preparedness for any scenario – with creative thinking, advanced infrastructure and admirable determination. I call on the public to adhere to the Ministry of Health’s guidelines – this is our way to get through this period safely and healthily.”

Dr. Levtzion Korach thanked the Minister of Health and the Director General of the Ministry for their visit and noted that: “Protecting patients and the treating staff is my top priority. We are doing everything to continue to provide groundbreaking, humane and professional medicine, and I am glad that the Minister and the Director General were very impressed with the hard and professional work we do here.”

24-day-old baby treated at the Underground Emergency Hospital at the Gandel Rehabilitation Center

Baby at Gandel Rehabilitation Center

Update from Hadassah Medical Organization

A 24-day-old baby is being treated at the Underground Emergency Hospital at the Gandel Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah Mt Scopus

“I feel safe here and watch from the sidelines as the team gives their heart and soul,” says the father of a 24-day-old baby girl being cared for underground at Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus.

Hadassah CEO, Prof. Yoram Weiss, notes that the underground hospital is a spacious complex with 140 hospital beds located in the Gandel Rehabilitation Center, two floors below ground, which allows for treatment of all patients and all departments, even under rocket fire.

The Hadassah CEO also emphasized that the complex will also allow for treatment of patients on ventilators or those who need oxygen assistance. The facility is divided into areas according to the departments from which the patients were moved.
The 24-day-old baby’s condition has improved thanks to the round-the-clock care provided by the medical and nursing teams, for whom this is also a less familiar professional experience in their daily work routine.

Dr. Kobi Tabi, a pediatric specialist at Hadassah Mount Scopus: “The little one we are treating here is already much better. She is receiving intravenous antibiotics and I believe she will be discharged in the next few days. Despite the move from the pediatric ward, she is relaxed and has gotten used to the new place, as have the other patients in the children’s complex we have set up here.
“We, the entire team, have also adapted with a lot of positive thinking and feel at home here. The main thing is that everyone is safe and we can continue to treat her even during sirens and missile fire.”

“Our daughter was born completely healthy and everything was fine,” says the father of the family who lives in northern Jerusalem but who is now staying at his daughter’s bedside. “Then, out of nowhere, she developed a fever and it went up and up. We realized this was dangerous for our newborn and we ran with her to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus.

“From the moment they moved the pediatric department here, to the protected compound, we felt safer. We were surrounded by staff members working around the clock, in a new area that they hadn’t worked in until the war. It’s impressive and heartwarming. For them, the location doesn’t matter, what matters is the little patients who need to be treated.”

Under the threat of Iranian attacks, Hadassah hospitals on Mount Scopus and Ein Kerem are operating underground with 240 hospital beds, treating and saving lives.

Prof. Yoram Weiss, CEO of Hadassah Medical Center: “Within a short time of the first sirens sounding early Friday morning, dozens of staff members mobilized and ensured that the underground complexes at both Hadassah hospitals were opened and patients moved to them in exemplary order.

The underground emergency hospital in Mount Scopus was created, he said, in the first days after October 7th.
“On the first evening, we understood the national need for a secure complex,” says Prof. Weiss. “Through teamwork and enormous efforts – together with the members of the board of directors Hadassah, the Women’s Organization of America, Hadassah International and our donors around the world – we ensured the establishment of this complex under the Gandel Rehabilitation Center, which currently contains 140 beds.”

The Hadassah CEO emphasizes that an almost identical number of beds is also spread out in the underground complex at Hadassah Ein Kerem.

“The Ein Kerem hospital’s surgery complex is situated four floors underground, which allows it to continue operating even under missile attack. We are talking about almost 140 beds that allow patients to be transferred for treatment in the most protected and secure complex available.”

“We have maintained these complexes continuously, throughout the war, and kept them on full alert until the moment of truth,” explains Prof. Weiss. So within hours of the alarm sounding on Friday morning, dozens of staff members mobilized and ensured the opening of both complexes and the transportation of patients to them.”
CEO Weiss concludes: “In the near future, our teams will continue to treat patients in the underground complexes, with great sensitivity given the situation and always with respect for each patient.”

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 advanced sensors. The seven-hour-long operation – called Total Artificial Heart Therapy Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart (TAH) – was led by an extensive medical team that included cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care specialists, operating room nurses, and heart-lung machine technicians.

TAH is a treatment option for patients with end-stage biventricular failure, a severe stage of heart failure where both the left and right ventricles of the heart are unable to pump blood effectively, leading to a variety of symptoms and potentially life-threatening complications.

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