The Hillel Yaffe Medical Center is a major hospital

Hospital

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 on the western edge of Hadera

Hadera

Hadera is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel approximately from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along of the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain...

, Israel

Israel

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. It serves a population of about 380,000 residents in an area ranging from Zikhron Ya'akov in the north to Netanya

Netanya

Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

 in the south, from the Mediterranean coast in the west to Umm el-Fahm and the Green Line

Green Line (Israel)

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 in the east. The center is named after Hillel Yaffe

Hillel Yaffe

Hillel Yaffe was a Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader who immigrated to Palestine during the First Aliyah. He was instrumental in curing malaria among the Jewish population of Palestine in the early 20th Century, and helped improve the medical infrastructure of the Yishuv during the same...

, a pioneering Israeli doctor who worked in nearby Jewish settlements in the land of Israel during the First Aliyah

First Aliyah

The First Aliyah was the first modern widespread wave of Zionist aliyah. Jews who migrated to Palestine in this wave came mostly from Eastern Europe and from Yemen. This wave of aliyah began in 1881–82 and lasted until 1903. An estimated 25,000–35,000 Jews immigrated to Ottoman Syria during the...

 in the early 20th century.

History

• 1957 - The hospital was founded in a number of small wooden shacks that were erected on the sand dunes to the west of Hadera.
• 1967 - The academic school named after Pat Matthews was founded.
• 1970-1975 - The hospital was the national center for organ transplant
  Organ transplant
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  s, under the leadership of Dr. Erwin Ya'akov, the manager of the surgery division.
• 1980 - The modern building for patients was populated. It continues to serve the majority of units at the hospital.

Buildings

As of 2006 the operations of the hospital are centralized in two main buildings:

• The main building was designed by the architect Ilya Belzitzman and was dedicated in 1980. North of this building, facing the entrance to the emergency room, stands a statue of the professor and doctor Rafi Karso, who was the manager of the neurology division, the institute for alternative medicine, and the institute for alleviating pain
  Pain
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  .
• The "building of the institutes" was designed by the architect Alex Shohet.

A new multipurpose building, which was designed by the office of the architect Uzi Gordon, is under construction, and is expected to be finished and ready for use in 2009.

Diverse population and staff

A diverse group of doctors and nurses works at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center: Arabs and Jews, natives and immigrants. The patients also reflect the diversity of the region's population: urban people alongside rural farmers, natives and immigrants, Jews and Arab

Arab

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s. The hospital thus serves as an example of peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews, and of absorbing immigrants from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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 and other lands.

Divisions and units

Urology Orthopedics 1 Orthopedics 2 Endocrinology and diabetes Ear, nose and throat Day hospitalization The unit for fertility and assisted reproductive technology Assisted reproductive technology Assisted reproductive technology is a general term referring to methods used to achieve pregnancy by artificial or partially artificial means. It is reproductive technology used primarily in infertility treatments. Some forms of ART are also used in fertile couples for genetic reasons... Anesthesia and operating rooms General intensive care Cardiac intensive care

General pediatrics Neonatology Plastic surgery Surgery 1 Surgery 2 Pediatric surgery Vascular surgery Emergency room Neurology

Gynecology and obstetrics Ophtalmology Internal medicine 1 Internal medicine 2 Internal medicine 3 Psychiatry Cardiac catheterization Rehabilitation

Institutes

• Gastroenterology and hepatology
• Pediatric development and rehabilitation
• Nephrology and high blood pressure
• Radiology
• Cardiology
• Pathology
• Sexual health
• Hematology
• Dermatology
• Holistic (alternative) medicine
• Mental health

External links

• Hillel Yaffe Medical Center homepage (Hebrew)
• Hillel Yaffe Medical Center homepage (English)