Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, also known as Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, is a hospital in Israel. It sits on a 60 acres (242,811.6 m²) campus, 15 kilometers from Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.

History

The Medical Center is named after "Assaf The Physician", who authored the Jewish physician's oath 1,500 years ago, and authored the world's oldest known medical text.

Its first known existence was in 1918, when the British conquered the area from the Turks during the First World War. A British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 camp used it as a military hospital

Military hospital

Military hospital is a hospital, which is generally located on a military base and is reserved for the use of military personnel, their dependents or other authorized users....

 before the creation of the State of Israel. Upon Israel's creation, it was converted into an Israeli hospital.

In July 2008, when Israeli Olympic fencer Delila Hatuel

Delila Hatuel

Delila Hatuel is an Israeli Olympic foil fencer. She represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has been ranked as high as ninth in the world.-Biography:Hatuel is Jewish, and was born in Acre, Israel...

 tore her torn knee ligament

Ligament

In anatomy, the term ligament is used to denote any of three types of structures. Most commonly, it refers to fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones and is also known as articular ligament, articular larua, fibrous ligament, or true ligament.Ligament can also refer to:* Peritoneal...

s one month prior to the Olympics, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament

Anterior cruciate ligament

The anterior cruciate ligament is a cruciate ligament which is one of the four major ligaments of the human knee. In the quadruped stifle , based on its anatomical position, it is referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament.The ACL originates from deep within the notch of the distal femur...

 (ACL), she almost missed out on participating in the Olympics. However, after she underwent treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, which is the largest such chamber in the Middle East, she was able to compete the following month in Beijing, as exposure to oxygen under high pressure speeds up the body's natural healing process.

Services

It is one of Israel's largest hospitals, with 800 beds. It serves over 370,000 people in Central Israel.

The hospital provides major services and emergency, intensive care, general medical, surgical, cardiac, pediatric, neonatal, gynecological, and obstetric medical services. It is an academic teaching facility and is part of the Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

 Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Sackler Faculty of Medicine

Sackler Faculty of Medicine is a medical school which is part of Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.It was named after Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, U.S. physicians who made substantial donations to the school...

. On its grounds are the first and largest Israeli academic nursing school and the oldest Israeli school of physiotherapy.