In Canada during April, May and June, Rambam Health Care Campus was all over the map

"With a new CFRAM Board, educational events featuring prominent members of the Rambam Health Care team, and several articles in the Jewish newspapers in just the last month, we are optimistic about the future of CFRAM and our success in promoting the future growth of Rambam."

Mr. David Green, President, Canadian Friends of Rambam Medical Center

Invasive neuroradiologist Dr. Yaaqov Amsalem, member of an exclusive club comprised of four specialists nationwide that perform intra-arterial brain catheterizations, joined Rambam's medical staff in December 2008 and immediately went to work in collaboration with Senior Neurologist Dr. Gregory Telman.

A coordinated Israeli charitable effort brought Zohara to Rambam in March for a 25-minute, minimally invasive cardiac catheterization unavailable in her home country.

A team of Rambam clinician-researchers has applied PET/CT hybrid-imaging technology to the precise diagnosis of vascular graft infection.

"Ethics make it possible for physicians to work within society because ethical standards address behavior between people. Medical ethics is a discipline that must guide the way of life of every physician and also of the hospital."

Yaron Bar-El, MD
Deputy Director & Director of Medical Operations, RHCC
Member, Medical Ethics Study Forum

• Rambam friends from New York, Colorado, California and Illinois visit the health care campus in May and June.
• A reception on behalf of Rambam was held in Newton, Massachusetts in June.

"It's like an iceberg," N, the patient, says and adds grimly, "and iceberg doesn't even begin to describe it."
"It's like jammed cogwheels," says Prof. Menashe Zaaroor, Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, manipulating the patient's wrist to demonstrate the tock-tock-tock-tock of shackled motion.

Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Rambam Health Care Campus
Laureate, the 2004 Nobel Prize In Chemistry
 
Cancer And Vascular Biology Research Center, Rappaport Faculty Of Medicine & Research Institute,Technion-Israel Institute Of Technology.

Not by chance did the buffet tables offer abundant goodies for healthy teeth and fresh breath – a serving bowl of crudités, another of fragrant nana (mint leaves), and pitchers of iced lemonade and orange juice – although to be fair, cheese cake, chocolate-frosted chocolate cake, and Hamantaschen (in honor of Purim) were also on offer.

Pictured at the heart of campus on the site of the planned Sammy Ofer Northern Regional Underground Emergency Hospital is 3 m deep, 20,000 sq m wide Lake Rambam.

In 2007, Naomi Segal introduced spiritual care-giving into the spectrum of services offered to inpatients at Rambam's Oncology Institute. Two years later, Ms. Segal has become a valued member of the Oncology Institute team and of the hospital-wide palliative-care team.

"God gave me this job and the freedom to grow and to enlarge my ability to help people. I have built a way of life here, and we – I mean the whole hospital administration – have developed an ethos that puts the patient at the center."
Yaffa Perez, Assistant Director, RHCC