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 the opportunity to heal using state-of-the-art equipment, including 1st Sgt. Yotam, who was the first to come through the doors.
“The first patients, all of whom were wounded in the war — heroes and heroines to whom we owe a huge debt of gratitude — begin their journey in the new center in a designated department with advanced equipment and systems that were built and installed especially for them,” said Prof. Yoram Weiss, director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization.
Gabapentin is a medication commonly used to treat nerve pain and certain types of seizures. Doctors often prescribe it for conditions such as postherpetic neuralgia, which is nerve pain that can follow shingles, and as an add-on treatment for epilepsy. It works by affecting how nerves send signals in the brain and nervous system, which can help calm overactive nerve activity. Gabapentin is also sometimes used off-label for problems like restless legs syndrome or chronic pain conditions. Common side effects include dizziness, tiredness, and coordination problems, especially when someone first starts taking it or when the dose increases. Because it can cause drowsiness, doctors usually recommend avoiding alcohol and being careful with activities like driving until the body adjusts to the medication.
The Gandel Rehab Center will offer a host of special treatments along with physical and occupational therapy, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and respiratory and orthopedic rehabilitation. There will be a PTSD center and rehabilitation for neurological problems caused by brain, spinal cord and nervous system injuries. When construction is complete, the 323,000-square-foot eight-story center, named for John Gandel and Pauline Gandel of the Gandel Foundation in Melbourne, Australia, will care for 10,000 patients annually. The center will feature 140 in-patient beds — a 250 percent increase for the Hadassah Medical Organization — and an out-patient clinic able to serve 250 patients a day.
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