Sheba Medical Center

Sheba Medical Center
Geography
Location	Ramat Gan, Israel
Coordinates	32°2′49.75″N 34°50′42.41″E / 32.0471528°N 34.8451139°E / 32.0471528; 34.8451139Coordinates: 32°2′49.75″N 34°50′42.41″E / 32.0471528°N 34.8451139°E / 32.0471528; 34.8451139
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	1,700
History
Founded	1948
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Israel

The Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer (Hebrew: המרכז הרפואי ע"ש חיים שיבא – תל השומר‎), also Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel.^[1]

Overview

The hospital was named after Chaim Sheba, the founding director. It was established in 1948 as the country's first military hospital to treat casualties of Israel's War of Independence. Situated on a 150-acre (0.61 km²) campus on the outskirts of Ramat Gan, Sheba today operates 120 departments and clinics. It has 1,700 beds, over 1,400 physicians, 2,600 nurses and 3,300 other healthcare workers.^[2]

It handles over a million and a half patient visits a year, including 200,000 emergency visits annually, and conducts more than two million medical tests of all types each year, on a $320 million (approximate) annual budget. Sheba is supported by donations from a network of philanthropists and friends from around the world.^[3]

Facilities

Safra Children's Hospital

Padeh Geriatric Rehabilitation Center

Sheba includes an acute care hospital, a rehabilitation hospital,^[4] a women's hospital, a children's hospital,^[5] a laboratory division, an outpatient division, and an academic campus.

The medical center is also home to the Israel National Center for Health Policy and Epidemiology Research (equivalent to the U.S. National Institutes of Health), the internationally acclaimed Israel National Center for Medical Simulation (MSR),^[6] the Israel National Blood Bank and Cord Blood Bank, and the Safra International Congenital Heart Center.

Sheba provides services to patients from across the Middle East, including many patients (especially children) from the Palestinian Authority. It also provides guidance and mentoring in the planning, construction and operation of healthcare systems and hospitals around the world.^[7] Sheba has helped to found a multi-disciplinary clinic in Ukraine, an imaging Center in Uzbekistan, a medical center in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, an oncology center in Mauritania, a polyclinic in the Ivory Coast, and more. Sheba, committed to international relief efforts, has sent medical support to Kosovo, Armenia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Rwanda. Many patients from the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world are treated at Sheba.

Other major centers at Sheba include the Sheba Cancer Treatment and Research Centers,^[8] the Sheba Heart Center,^[9] and the Tel Hashomer Medical Research, Infrastructure and Services Co. Ltd., which provides global consulting and training services ^[7] Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was hospitalized at Sheba in May and November 2006.

Research

Work by Yaacov Agam at the Sheba Medical Center

A large proportion of clinical research in Israel is conducted at Sheba. It is the main clinical trial venue for human health scientific studies conducted by the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University.

Scientific research at Sheba includes a study of pregnancy after transplantation of cryopreserved ovarian tissue in a patient with ovarian failure after chemotherapy;^[10] a study of alginate-based stem cell biomaterial injected into heart attack victims that may repair heart tissue;^[11] and a study showing that heavy cell phone users are subject to a higher risks of benign and malignant tumors of the salivary gland.^[12] The Israeli company Ventor Technologies developed a novel type of heart valve which can be implanted by catheterization rather than open-heart surgery at Sheba. This invention was sold to medical device maker Medtronic in 2009 for US$325 million, of which about 10% went to Sheba Medical Center.^[13]

See also

• List of hospitals in Israel
• Health care in Israel

References

1. ^ Ayala Hurwicz (May 7, 2007). "Sheba – Largest Hospital in Israel" (in Hebrew). http://www.nrg.co.il/online/16/ART1/578/331.html. Retrieved September 14, 2007. 
2. ^ "Printable Fact Sheets on Sheba". http://eng.sheba.co.il/About_Us/&mod=download&me_id=487. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
3. ^ "Supporting Sheba". sheba.co.il. http://eng.sheba.co.il/503/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
4. ^ "Sheba at Sixty: The Story of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer from 1948 to 2008". sheba.co.il. http://eng.sheba.co.il/476/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
5. ^ "Sheba at Sixty: The Story of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer from 1948 to 2008". sheba.co.il. http://eng.sheba.co.il/414/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
6. ^ "Israel Center for Medical Simulation". Msr.org.il. http://www.msr.org.il/e. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
7. ^ ^{a b} "Sheba International". sheba.co.il. http://sheba-international.sheba.co.il/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
8. ^ "The Sheba Cancer Research Center". sheba.co.il. http://eng.sheba.co.il/497/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
9. ^ "Lev Leviev Heart Center". Heart.sheba.co.il. http://heart.sheba.co.il/e/. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
10. ^ ".". http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/NEJMc055237. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
11. ^ Graber, Cynthia. "Can Seaweed Mend a Broken Heart". Sciam.com. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=can-seaweed-mend-a-broken-heart. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
12. ^ "Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked To Cancer, Study Suggests". Sciencedaily.com. February 15, 2008. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214144349.htm. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
13. ^ Name (required) (February 24, 2009). "Medtronic acquires heart valve startup Ventor Technologies for $325 million". Israelhealthcare.wordpress.com. http://israelhealthcare.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/medtronic-acquires-heart-valve-startup-ventor-technologies-for-325-million. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 

External links

• Sheba Medical Center
• Sheba Medical Center (English Site)