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located in

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. It is owned and operated by

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, Israel's largest

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. In January 1996, Beilinson Hospital and Hasharon Hospital were merged and renamed Rabin Medical Center. It has a capacity of 1,300 beds.

History

Beilinson Hospital

Beilinson Hospital was founded in 1936 to serve the nearby agricultural settlements. All Jewish workers in central Palestine agreed to donate two days' worth of wages toward its construction. The hospital opened with 70 beds. It was named for Dr. Moshe Beilinson, one of its founders. HaSharon Hospital was built in 1942 as an extension of Beilinson. In 1954, a new building in the

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was designed by Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson, pioneers of Israeli modernist architecture. In 1938, the country's first

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was established at Beilinson. Beilinson Hospital was the first medical institution in the country to have a

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department, a

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institute, and a

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unit. In 1968, the first heart transplant in Israel was performed there. The first implantation of an artificial heart in Israel was performed at Beilinson in 1995. Belinson400

Golda–HaSharon Hospital

HaSharon Hospital was founded in 1942 by a team of

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s from the Beilinson Hospital as a satellite surgical unit. It was originally established in a 1-floor building, and named Beilinson II. It originally had 28 beds. Beilinson II was renamed HaSharon Hospital several years later. In 1982, Golda was appended to the hospital's name, after the late Israeli prime minister,

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. Golda-HaSharon Hospital currently has 400 beds.

Merger

While physically separated, the two hospitals were officially merged in 1996 in a budget saving consolidation and the umbrella organization renamed the Rabin Medical Center, in memory of

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, the prime minister who had been assassinated in the previous year.

Clinical research

In 2012, the hospital received NIS 63.5 million in revenue for clinical research, after a 70% increase from 2011, topping the list for Israeli hospitals.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Hospitals in Israel Buildings and structures in Petah Tikva 1936 establishments in Mandatory Palestine Buildings and structures in Central District (Israel) 1996 establishments in Israel Commemoration of Yitzhak Rabin