Rambam Health Care Campus
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The hospital Rambam Health Care Campus ( Hebrew: רמב"ם - הקריה הרפואית לבריאות האדם ), also Rambam hospital or simply Rambam, is located in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa ( Israel).
It is the largest hospital in northern Israel, and the fifth largest in the whole of Israel. It was named after the physician and philosopher Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon ( Maimonides ) of the 12th century, also known as Rambam, named.
Facilities
The Rambam Medical Center is a Level I trauma center. About 75,000 people are admitted here every year and another 500,000 are treated in the outpatient clinics and medical institutes. The Medical School of the Technion - the Rappaport Faculty - located next to the hospital. It has 36 departments with approximately 1,000 beds, nine institutes and six laboratories.
The Meyer Children's Hospital, the only purely aimed at children and youth medicine hospital in northern Israel, located on the Rambam Health Care Campus. It was founded in 1986 to treat children aged 0 to 16 years.
History
The Rambam Medical Center was founded in 1938 during the British Mandate period on a crescent-shaped spit of land at the foot of the Carmel Mountains, northwest of the port of Haifa. Planning for hospital construction took over the architect Erich Mendelsohn.
With 225 beds initially it was inaugurated by the High Commissioner of Palestine, Harold MacMichael as British Government Hospital of Haifa.
After the establishment of Israel in 1948, the hospital was named after Rambam.
Extension
In October 2010, work began on a protected underground hospital, can withstand conventional, chemical and biological attacks should. The hospital will then have an autonomous power and oxygen supply, drinking water and medical supplies for up to three days.
Part of the project is also a three-story parking garage that can be converted into a short 2000 -bed hospital, if necessary.