News and Events

A service dog named Donna recently joined the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus. Donna is helping young patients overcome severe dental anxiety.

Parents of three-year-old Fuad, donate his organs following a catastrophic car accident. Rambam stands in awe of the Machamid family and all those who give the gift of life to another.

To the excitement of all, the Herta & Paul Amir Department of Internal Medicine A, at Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, opened recently following a one-year renovation.

For patients unable to take blood thinners, Rambam HCC, implements a new, innovative procedure for treating atrial fibrillation.

Without the assistance of his usual medical team, leading Rambam surgeon, Dr. Yotam Shkedy recently performed complicated head and neck surgeries in Ethiopia.

A six-year-old ultra-Orthodox boy, underwent life-saving neurosurgery at Rambam. Understanding their religious importance, Dr. Ido Paldor saved one of the boy’s sidelocks.

It is now eight years since Ofer Lavi began donating blood platelets and plasma at Rambam Health Care Campus for cancer patients, trauma victims, and premature babies. Recently, after 102 plasma donations, he realized that ‘102’ is also the emergency telephone number for Fire and Rescue Services.

Rambam Health Care Campus is offering a unique training program for the caregivers of young oncology patients in collaboration with the “Halasartan” Project and the Israel Cancer Association. This course is the first of its kind in Israel.

A doctor in one of Northern Israel’s community health clinics was at a loss. How was he going to perform an ECG on this energetic and restless four-and-a-half-year-old child who was on the spectrum? After consulting with specialists, the ECG was successfully performed in the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus.

Green plants, synthetic grass, and colorful tires are all part of a new playground established by the Purchasing Department staff of Rambam Health Care Campus for the Alvin Network’s Einav Daycare Center for Children with Special Needs in Kiryat Bialik – a suburb of Haifa.

While being rushed to surgery for a C-section at Rambam Health Care Campus, Ella Vinon Hasid’s baby began to exit the birth canal. The baby’s life hung in the balance due to a rare umbilical cord prolapse. Dr. Nadir Ghanem’s resourcefulness restored the baby into the uterus with a swift action that bought precious moments and saved the baby’s life.

A new hematology unit recently opened at Rambam Health Care Campus to meet the growing need for expanded hematology services in Northern Israel.

For cancer patients, balancing body, mind, and soul are important factors in treatment and recovery. Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, is now providing six free, one-hour, reflexology sessions to suitable oncology patients.

Yotam Yonatan, a 48-year-old resident of a small town in Northern Israel, could not believe it when a serious bicycle accident that caused him to lose consciousness actually saved his life.

A novel, minimally invasive, surgery for the lower back, developed in Australia, was recently implemented at Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam), Haifa, Israel. Dr. Ory Keynan, Head, of the Spine Surgery Unit at Rambam, together with specialists from the unit, are now using this procedure.

When Dina Lahav was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, she almost gave up on the idea of breastfeeding her infant son, but then Rambam Health Care Campus stepped in and provided a way.

Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, has received special approval to administer a new breakthrough drug that is highly effective in treating Juvenile Hepatitis C.

Maxillofacial specialists from Rambam Health Care Campus traveled to Madagascar to perform life-changing surgery on children with cleft palates and lips, and then shared their specialized knowledge at an international conference in Scotland.

Anastasia*, just sixteen-years-old, immigrated with her family from Russia only a few months ago – without her most precious possession – her violin. Hospitalized with a stomach condition in the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital at Rambam Health Care Campus, the hospital staff surprised her with a new violin.

Adel Hanaisha, a resident of Nablus in the Palestinian Authority required specialized surgery to remove a brain tumor that only Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa could offer.