Assuta Medical Center ( he, אסותא מרכזים רפואיים) is a private medical center in the
Ramat HaHayal
Ramat HaHayal ( he, רמת החייל, ''lit.'' Soldiers Hill) is a northeastern neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. Some high tech firms have research and development offices in Ramat HaHayal.
History
The neighborhood was established in 1949 to a ...
neighborhood in north
Tel Aviv
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,
Israel
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established in 1936. The hospital performs surgery and diagnostic procedures in all fields of medicine, including cardiology, oncology, gynecology and urology.
History
The hospital was founded in Tel Aviv in 1936 by
Ben-Zion Harel, a physician who later became a
Member of Knesset
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. It had a staff of 34 doctors and 74 beds. The architect was Joseph Neufeld, a leading proponent of the
International Style in Israel.
In 2009, Assuta moved to a new building in
Ramat HaHayal
Ramat HaHayal ( he, רמת החייל, ''lit.'' Soldiers Hill) is a northeastern neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. Some high tech firms have research and development offices in Ramat HaHayal.
History
The neighborhood was established in 1949 to a ...
. With floor space of 90,000 sq. meters (970,000 sq. feet), it is the largest private hospital in Israel. The building was designed by Canadian firm
Zeidler Partnership Architects
Zeidler Architecture is an international architecture, interior design, urban design, and master planning firm with four Canadian offices located in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria. In addition, the firm has locations in Beijing (China ...
and Israeli architectural firms of Marcelo Brestovisky and
Moore Yasky Sivan. Assuta is owned by the
Maccabi Health Care Services Group.
Today
The hospital has sixteen operating rooms and is certified for surgical procedures in all specialty areas. Some 17,000 operations are performed every year, including complicated surgical procedures such as open-heart surgery, neurological procedures. The hospital operates a cardiac catheterization laboratory and performs all types of angiography procedures, including diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and stent insertion during angioplasty.
Assuta is one of seven Israeli hospitals that received accreditation from the
Joint Commission International
The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. The international branch accredits medical services from around the world. A majori ...
, an organization that sets safety standards for medical care.
Assuta Hospital's
IVF
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clinic is a world leader, performing 7,000 cycles a year. In 2002, the journal
Human Reproduction Update reported that 1,657 IVF procedures per million people per year were performed in Israel, compared with 899 in Iceland, which was second in line. At Assuta's fertility center, a lab houses 25 incubators and 60,000 frozen embryos stored in liquid nitrogen. While the procedure is state-paid at public hospitals, Assuta patients are charged a co-payment of approximately $150.
In 2011, Assuta won the tender for building a new medical center in
Ashdod
Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterran ...
. Assuta operates four hospitals and four outpatient medical centers in Israel. Assuta services in Ashdod will include the operation of an emergency room in a sheltered structure protected from missile attacks, an internal medicine ward, a geriatrics ward, a pediatrics ward, a cardiology center, and oncology institute and a dialysis institute. The wards will have a total of 105 beds with another 100 beds for brief hospitalizations.
Assuta to open Ashdod hospital in 2013
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See also
*Health care in Israel
Healthcare in Israel is universal and participation in a medical insurance plan is compulsory. All Israeli residents are entitled to basic health care as a fundamental right. The Israeli healthcare system is based on the National Health Insurance ...
*Medical tourism in Israel Medical tourism in Israel is medical tourism in which people travel to Israel for medical treatment, which is emerging as an important destination for medical tourists.
* List of hospitals in Israel
*Architecture in Israel
The architecture of Israel has been influenced by the different architectural styles of those who have inhabited the country over time, sometimes modified to suit the local climate and landscape. Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, Isl ...
*Benno Chajes
Benno Chajes (14 November 1880 – 3 October 1938) was a German physician, professor for Social medicine and politician. He was a member of the Prussian parliament representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Chajes was born in Danzig, W ...
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Hospitals in Israel
Hospital buildings completed in 2009
Buildings and structures in Tel Aviv