THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 15, 1981
39
Meyer and Mary Must honored at Annual Dinner
Congregation Bnai David, June 17th, 19861
SHAARE ZEDEK
SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER JERUSALEM • 107 YEARS OF HEALING
Detroit Friends of
Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem
13128 Wales, Huntington Woods, Mich. 48070
544-8412 or 547-3890
In serv ce o all Aman
SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER in Jerusalem is a university affiliated teaching hospital. The $55 million Medical Center, located on a 14-acre
site opposite Mount Herzl was opened in the summer of 1979.
It is nearly a century
since a committee was or-
ganized to establish the
Shaare Zedek Hospital. Its
activities culminated in the
construction, in 1902, of a
hospital building which
serves the population of
Jerusalem till today. The
original 26-bed facility
was, in fact, the first hospi-
tal outside the walls of old
Jerusalem.
Shaare Zedek has been
a history of beginnings.
Each decade of the hospi-
tal's existence has opened
new frontiers in medical
care and research for
Jerusalem and her
environs.
Since the establishment
of the only isolation ward
in Jerusalem in 1910,
Shaare Zedek played a
life-saving role when the
various epidemics of
typhoid, diptheria; polio
and cholera struck the city.
Ips• each of Jerusalem's
great crises, Shaare
Zedek has played an in-
strumental role in saving
lives. During the Arab riots
of 1921 and 1933,
throughout the Second
World War, in the War of
Independence, and again
during the Six-Day War,
the doctors and staff
worked around the clock
to cope with the emer-
gency situation' — often
while under heavy born-
bardment from enemy
guns.
Known as "Jerusalem's
hospital with a heart,"
Shaare Zedek is a hospital
where the concept of
community service is em-
phasized. Every effort is
taken to continue our tradi-
tion of personal contact
between each patient and
the hospital staff, during
and after hospitalization.
The Israel medical pro-
fession, as in medical
communities in many
countries abroad, is di-
vided into two segments;
the hospital and its doctors
on one hand and clinics
and private, physicians on
the other. Shaare Zedek is
attempting to bridge this
"paper wall" of referrals
and notes and to send the
hospital physician into the
community - and bring the
private doctor into the
hospital.
The concept of the
community hospital that
we are attempting to de-
velop is based on the
premise that the hospital is
only one link in the chain of
medical facilities required
in the community. This
chain starts in the cocn-
munity with clinics of var-
ious types: screening
clinics; clinics for advice;
well baby clinics; etc.
These clinics funnel the
patient into the acute hos-
pital where the care that
can be given with the aid of
modern equipment and
instrumentation is avail-
able. From the acute hos-
pital the patients move out
to extended care facilities
and to institutions for
chronic care and nursing
and eventually back into
the community. Not all in-
dividuals must of neces-
sity pass through all links
in the chain, but to ensure
total health care, all links
must exist.
Shaare Zedek has also
initiated a Home Care
Program, the first in Israel.
Doctors, nurses, social
workers and physio-
therapists go out of
the hospital and into the
homes of the patients to
continue their medical
care after discharge. Thus
the program maintains in
the home setting medical
treatment first given in the
hospital and by this variety
of care, continues to keep
the patient in good health
and in his home.
Always striving to corn-
bine modern medicine
with Jewish tradition,
Shaare Zedek is a hospital
for all Jerusalem's people,
regardless of religious af-
filiation, and both staff and
patients include Christians
and Moslems.
For the staff of Shaare
Zedek, patients are not
merely "gall bladders" and
"ulcers" but individuals
who are treated with con-
sideration of all the social,
environmental and psy-
,
-
chological problems as-
sociated with disease.
During the summer of
1979, the century old
Shaare Zedek Hospital
moved from its antiquated
quarters to a new 55-
million dollars complex
overlooking the city and
convenient to its inhabi-
tants. For -the first time in
many years, this remarka-
ble institution is prepared
to serve the medical
0 SCOPE OF ACTIVITY
This year Shaare Zedek provided:
97,001 Adult Hospitalization Days
18,542 Pediatric Hospitalization
Days
14:575 Adult AdmissiOns
72,300 Outpatient Clinic Visits
26,760 Emergency Cases
4,110 Deliveries
4,574 Neonatal Intensive Care
Days
3,269 Cardiac & General
Intensive Care Days
5,022 Surgical Operations
2,600 Adult Dialysis Treatments
936 Pediatric Dialysis
Treatments
1,000,000 Laboratory Tests
30,123 X-rays
4,080 Total Body C.A.T.
Scans
4,820 Neurological
Examinations
1,440 Cardiology
Examinations
1,815 Nuclear Medicine Tests
400,000
of
needs
Jerusalemites with the
latest medical equipment
and technology.
THESE ARE THE FACTS
on the Shaare Zedek
Medical Center in
Jerusalem
Size: 1,300,000 square
feet
Number of Beds: 500 at
first stage: later expan-
sion to over 600
0 COMPREHENSIVE
FACILITIES
25 Inpatient Departments
22 Diagnostic Insitutes,
Laboratories and Services for
Inpatients and Outpatients
33 Specialized Outpatient Clinics
17 Para-medical Departments
and Services
STAFF, STUDENT NURSES
AND VOLUNTEERS
115 Doctors
265 Nurses
110 Para-medical, Laboratory
Technicians, Medical
Administration
360 Technical, Administrative
Services, School of Nursing,
Maintenance
850 Total Staff (full time)
400 Part Time Volunteers
58 Girls, National Service
Program
90 Student Nurses