Quick Facts and Figures

• 7 floors
• 35,000 sq. meters (376,736 sq. feet)
• 271 beds including 50 for day care
• 44% critical care and special care beds
• 1,500 employees 
• 350 Physicians with advanced specialty and subspecialty pediatric training
• 550 Pediatric Nurses and Nurse Assistants
• 100 Paramedical Staff (Social Workers, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Dieticians)
• 6 operating theaters
• 2 Cardiac Catheterization Labs
• 3 specially oriented intensive care units 
• …and the combined skills of 800 health professionals
  
  

• Hematology-Oncology
• Cardiology
• Endocrinology & Childhood Diabetes
• Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation
  
   

Annual Activities

• 275,000 visits and treatments
• 54,000 visits to the Emergency Medicine Department (ER) - busiest in the country
• 13,500 admissions, amounting to some 78,000 hospitalization days
• 8,200 surgeries including 500 cardiac and vascular surgeries and about 220 neurosurgeries
• 440 dialysis treatments
• 1,200 catheterizations
• 60 cochlear implants
• 40 organ transplantations
  
  

• Digital medical responses after-hours
• Pediatric medical consultations via telephone and videoconferencing
  
  

New Clinical Genetics

• Diseases and genes discovered
• Chromosomal microarray
• Exome sequencing
  
  

Medical Firsts

• Endoscopic repair of laryngeal cleft in 2.5kg preemie
• Video capsule endoscopy for children <2 years
• Artificial pancreas trials outside hospital
• Joint ancestor gene discovery in CDA-II patients
• Local anesthesia for meatal stenosis
• Defibrillator implanted in 4-month-old
• New genes discovered for mental retardation
• Open-heart surgery in 800gm preemie
• Transcatheter artificial valve implant
• Multiple organ transplant
  
  

Academic Excellence

• Two Israel Prize laureates for Medical Research
• Affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
• 5 physicians on Medical Management Faculty at Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine (highest percentage per capita of all 16 TAU-affiliated teaching hospitals)
• 50% staff on Faculty
• 15% hold title of Professor
  
  

Research & Training

• Research Authority
• International Scientific Advisory Committee
• International collaborations, conferences and seminars
• Exchange fellowships
• Advanced specialist training
• Residents, medical students and nurses training
  

International Collaborations
From China to North America

Strategy for the Future

New Southern Wing