Important delegations continue to arrive at the Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC). Recently, a group of senior businesspeople from the USA made a visit, which was closely followed by the Haifa-Boston City to City Delegation’s tour of Rambam. Both groups came for the same reason: to learn about Rambam’s achievements yesterday, today and tomorrow

In recent weeks, Rambam has welcomed a number of honored visitors to its health care campus. On October 27, 2010, a delegation of senior businesspeople from the USA spent an afternoon touring Rambam. Two weeks later, on November 16, 2010, the Haifa-Boston City to City Delegation arrived. Both delegations shared the same goal: to get an overview of the medical center, past, present and future.

The groups also had a common itinerary. They were greeted by Rambam Director Prof Rafael Beyar, who introduced Rambam’s vision and achievements. Prof Beyar conveyed a singular and strong message: “Rambam is the leading medical center in northern Israel. It is also the site of intensive scientific and research cooperation with advanced medical high tech industries in the Haifa area, and with research institutes at the Technion. For these reasons Rambam has become a focal point that creates great interest among senior researchers and scientists and representatives of high tech, biotech, communications and pharmaceutical industries, as well as other medical centers".

Both groups were given a tour, led by Ms Pnina Dagul, of Rambam’s Department of International Relations and Resource Development, A former nurse at Rambam, Ms Dagul transferred to administrative management, where she has assumed the task of overseeing the logistics of hosting delegations at Rambam.

The visitors went on to view a model of the future Rambam Health Care Campus, and received an in-depth look into the current large-scale construction taking place on the campus.  They visited the new Legacy Heritage Clinical Research Laboratories and heard a speech by Prof Michael Aviram, director of the Legacy Heritage Clinical Research Institute at Rambam (LHCRIR), titled, “The Clinician – Scientist Model at Rambam.”

 “We are hosting delegations at great frequency,” said Rambam’s Administrative Director, Dr Esty Golan, who is among the initiators of the “Adam vision” for expansion of the Rambam campus. “A visit to Rambam is still the best way to receive a direct impression – not through the filter of movies or written documents – of what is happening here.”