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Everyone knows that being hospitalized is no fun, but a team of firefighters and rescue workers decided to give the hospitalized children at Rambam Health Care Campus something worth remembering – a special rappelling demonstration from the roof of Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital.

Israel established the field hospital in Mostyska, outside of the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, in mid-March.

Children of surgical team members at Rambam Health Care Campus were given a unique and exciting opportunity to experience their parents' complicated work days. They got to try out working with different medical devices, and even enjoyed a little “screen time.”

Leading the new service will be Professor Ronen Arnon, an internationally recognized pediatric liver disease specialist who recently joined Rambam Health Care Campus as a senior physician and Head of the Pediatric Liver, Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition Institute in Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital.

Twice the joy at Rambam Health Care Campus: A Haifa resident gave birth to a son and then became a grandmother when her daughter gave birth to a baby girl one week later.

Metastatic pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease with low life expectancy and especially poor quality of life. A new research grant will seek ways to improve those statistics.

On Monday April 4, Prime Minister Bennett—accompanied by the Border Police Chief, the Deputy Police Commissioner, the Commander of Israel's National Counter Terror Unit, and the Commander of the Commando Brigade—visited wounded soldiers folowing a visit on April 2 by Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai.

A unique virtual window initiative has been implemented in the Bone Marrow Transplantation Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus. It helps to meet the unique needs of bone marrow transplant patients in isolation – all thanks to the generosity of the family of Arnon Ori, Z"L.

For almost four weeks now, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals have been volunteering 24/7 to staff a hotline for Ukrainian residents in need of mental health support.

Qigong is a series of exercises based on an ancient Chinese text that attributes medicinal properties to motility. Those who practice this unique craft believe that it brings balance and serenity at all levels.

David Malka, an IDF veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following the Second Lebanon War, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer exactly 15 years after the battle in Lebanon. He was looking for ways to strengthen his youngest child, who also had to deal with his father’s illness.

In Israel, the days leading up to Purim are filled with merriment, and many of the staff members and patients at Rambam Health Care Campus were happy to join in the fun! Festivities have been held across the campus, and some of the highlights are below.

Rambam Health Care Campus Nursing Administration employee Masha Bozhko speaks to the Israeli Hebrew-language news site “ynet”, sharing how she decided to rescue the son of her childhood friend from the war zone in Ukraine.

Rambam Health Care Campus is sending help to refugees from the war in Ukraine. The donations are sent to the Haifa absorption center which then distributes the aide to the refugees. This is the second donation to leave Rambam for this important cause.

The conference was the first event held by the newly established Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. MIT Professor Leo Anthony Celi addressed the conference on the topic of ensuring that machine learning for healthcare works for everyone.

The brother is a doctor, the nurse is a physiotherapist, and together they treated COVID-19 patients at Rambam.

Against the background of the war that broke out in Eastern Europe, a delegation of senior officials from Moldova visited Rambam Health Care Campus in order to understand how a hospital is run during emergency situations.

In recent years, there has been a steady increase in both the workload in the Departments of Internal Medicine and the number of critically ill patients in need of higher levels of care.

Swallowing objects is a danger most often associated with toddlers and small children, but even at later ages, putting foreign objects in the mouth can be life threatening.

Rambam Health Care Campus recently opened a center for rapid lung cancer diagnosis, shortening the diagnostic process for patients suspected of having lung cancer to just 14 days from the patient’s first appointment until treatment begins. Until now, the average length of time for this process in Israel is three to six months, and in the US, the average is six months. This new center is the first facility of its kind in Israel.