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Quick Facts and Figures

  • 7 floors
  • 35,000 sq. meters (376,736 sq. feet)
  • 271 beds including 50 for day care
  • 44% critical care and special care beds
  • 1,500 employees 
  • 350 Physicians with advanced specialty and subspecialty pediatric training
  • 550 Pediatric Nurses and Nurse Assistants
  • 100 Paramedical Staff (Social Workers, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Dieticians)
  • 6 operating theaters
  • 2 Cardiac Catheterization Labs
  • 3 specially oriented intensive care units 
  • …and the combined skills of 800 health professionals

National Referral Center
  • Hematology-Oncology
  • Cardiology
  • Endocrinology & Childhood Diabetes
  • Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation

     

Annual Activities


  • 275,000 visits and treatments
  • 54,000 visits to the Emergency Medicine Department (ER) - busiest in the country
  • 13,500 admissions, amounting to some 78,000 hospitalization days
  • 8,200 surgeries including 500 cardiac and vascular surgeries and about 220 neurosurgeries
  • 440 dialysis treatments
  • 1,200 catheterizations
  • 60 cochlear implants
  • 40 organ transplantations

Online Pediatricians
  • Digital medical responses after-hours
  • Pediatric medical consultations via telephone and videoconferencing

New Clinical Genetics


  • Diseases and genes discovered
  • Chromosomal microarray
  • Exome sequencing

Medical Firsts


  • Endoscopic repair of laryngeal cleft in 2.5kg preemie
  • Video capsule endoscopy for children <2 years
  • Artificial pancreas trials outside hospital
  • Joint ancestor gene discovery in CDA-II patients
  • Local anesthesia for meatal stenosis
  • Defibrillator implanted in 4-month-old
  • New genes discovered for mental retardation
  • Open-heart surgery in 800gm preemie
  • Transcatheter artificial valve implant
  • Multiple organ transplant

Academic Excellence


  • Two Israel Prize laureates for Medical Research
  • Affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
  • 5 physicians on Medical Management Faculty at Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine (highest percentage per capita of all 16 TAU-affiliated teaching hospitals)
  • 50% staff on Faculty
  • 15% hold title of Professor

Research & Training


  • Research Authority
  • International Scientific Advisory Committee
  • International collaborations, conferences and seminars
  • Exchange fellowships
  • Advanced specialist training
  • Residents, medical students and nurses training

International Collaborations
From China to North America

 

 

Strategy for the Future


New Southern Wing

 

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