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The Department of Cardiac Surgery with
Tomas Herdevall (center back row, blue shirt).
Photography: Netanel Ayzik, 
Spokesperson's Office, RHCC

Patient “Throws” Department of Heart Surgery into the Water

7/18/2017

​​​Four months after the surgery that saved his life, Tomas Herdevall, who has managed the Pacific Rowing Club in Haifa for the past 20 years, set out to thank the medical team that treated him in his own way—with Kayak rowing lessons.

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​Dr. Dina Baron Shahaf (center)
with Maccabiah participants.

Rambam Summary of Maccabiah Experience

7/18/2017

The 20th Maccabiah games come to a close today. Rambam Health Care Campus—the medical center serving Haifa participants—provided medical services to participants, despite the complex logistics involved.

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Professor Minor observing research in 
Professor Gepstein's laboratory.
Photography: Itamar Hashash Daniel

Rambam Strengthens Its Connection with Stanford University

7/13/2017

​Professor Lloyd B. Minor M.D., dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, one of the best medical schools in the world, recently visited Rambam HCC to learn more about what goes on in the largest hospital in Northern Israel.

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Dr. Amoundi (L) and Dr. Sharoni (R) take a few
minutes to play with their young patients.
Photography: Private Collection.

Rambam Doctors Perform Pediatric Surgery Marathon in Ghana

7/13/2017

​Eight days to perform 155 surgeries? Two Rambam doctors and their colleagues traveled to Ghana and took on this near impossible task as part of a humanitarian mission to treat people with cleft lip and palate.

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Doctors performing a brain
catheterization at Rambam.
Photography: Pioter Fliter

Rambam Tops List of Best Hospitals in Israel

7/4/2017

Rambam ranked second place among hospitals in Israel in the provision of quality health care to patients, according to data from the Israeli Ministry of Health's National Quality Indicators Program published last week.

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Rambam Medical Team to Serve 20th Maccabiah Participants

Rambam Medical Team to Serve 20th Maccabiah Participants

6/28/2017

Medical Teams from Rambam Health Care Campus will be the official health care providers for the 20th Maccabiah games, one of the largest sports events in the world with thousands of Jewish athletes from 80 countries.

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​Professors Rafi Byear and Karl Skorecki 
with the 2017 Rambam Awardees.
Photography: Pioter Fliter

Rambam’s Gala Evening Raises 22 Million Shekels

6/19/2017

​​The Rambam Summit ended with its traditional Gala Dinner, and the 2017 Rambam Awards ceremony. The inspiring event raised millions of shekels to benefit the patients of Northern Israel via Rambam Health Care Campus.

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The Joseph Fishman Oncology Center at
Rambam Health Care Campus.
Photography: Micky and Gal Koren.

Palestinian Treated at Rambam Donates to the Israeli Hospital

6/11/2017

​​​He came to Rambam battling Cancer and left with a vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Meet the man who decided to build a bridge between people, starting in Haifa and extending to the Palestinian Authority.

 

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From L-R: Professor Richard Horton, Ms. Alicia 
Kaylie-Yakobi, Professor Rafi Beyar, Ambassador 
Dennis B. Ross, Professor Jeffrey M. Drazen, and 
Professor Karl Skorecki.
Photographer: Morag Bitan

The 8th Rambam Summit: The Kidney—Genetics and Beyond

6/8/2017

​​This week, Rambam HCC welcomed a distinguished circle of friends, supporters, and global leaders in the fields of medicine, industry, and finance, to the 2017 Rambam Summit. This year's theme was “The Kidney—Genetics, and Beyond.”

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This is what it looks like when 
children give from the heart.
Photographer: Itamar Hashash-Danile, 
Spokesperson's Office, Rambam HCC

Birthday Wish Gives to Sick Kids in Haifa

6/8/2017

​​​An initiative that started with birthday present donations grew into a movement involving an entire school and became a toy distribution campaign reaching every hospital in Haifa.

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Dr. Morisio Cohen Weiser performing
Eustachian tube catheterization.
Photographer: Itamar Hashesh-Daniel, 
Spokesperson's Office, RHCC

Give Ear—New Treatment for Blocked Ears

5/17/2017

​​While this new treatment won’t make kids listen better, it will help those suffering from the terrible pain of severely blocked ears. A new technique is being successfully used at Rambam HCC.

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Pictured: One of the kidney surgeries performed at Rambam.
Photographer: Pioter FliterPhotographer: Pioter Fliter

Israeli and Palestinian Families Gifts Each Other With Life

5/17/2017

​​​Four patients entered Rambam’s operating rooms on the same day, two to donate their kidneys and two to receive them. This cross-transplant procedure involved dozens of staff from the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital.

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​H.S. Pavan Kapoor, Ambassador of India 
to Israel hands the award over to 
Professor Best.
Photgrapher: Pioter Best.

Simply Best

4/26/2017

​​​​The prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman was awarded to Professor Lael Anson E. Best earlier this year by the President of India. This week the award was personally handed over to him by India's ambassador to Israel.

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Top (L-R): Rabbi Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Kahlon.
Bottom (L-R): Professor Ron Robin and Professor Rafi Beyar.
Photographer: Pioter Fliter

Rambam's Health Discovery Tower is Underway

4/19/2017

​An outstanding collaboration was launched today with the signing of an agreement between the University of Haifa and Rambam Health Care Campus, aimed at stimulating medical-applied research in Israel.

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