Shamir Medical Center
Geography
LocationBe'er Ya'akov, Israel
Organisation
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityTel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Services
Beds891[1]
History
Opened1918
Links
Websitewww.shamir.org
ListsHospitals in Israel

Shamir Medical Center, formerly Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, is a teaching hospital in Be'er Ya'akov, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel.[2]

History

The Medical Center was named after Asaph the Jew, author of the Oath of Asaph and an early medical text.[3][4] The facility was established in 1918 as a military hospital of the British Army in the closing days of the First World War.[3] It was located adjacent to the sprawling British military base in Tzrifin (Sarafand). After the creation of the State of Israel, it was converted to an Israeli hospital.[3]

The hospital was renamed after the former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in April 2017.

Services

It is one of Israel's largest hospitals, with over 800 beds.[5][6] It serves over 370,000 people in Israel's Central District.[5][6] As a teaching facility, the hospital is part of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.[5] On its grounds are the first and largest Israeli academic nursing school and the oldest Israeli school of physiotherapy.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Table 10: Listed Hospitalization Beds by Institution and Department – General Hospitalization Institutions". מיטות אשפוז ועמדות ברישוי [Hospitalization Beds and Licensing Counters] (PDF) (Report) (in Hebrew). Israel Ministry of Health. January 2020. p. 24. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Assaf Harofeh Medical Center – About AHMC". Ahmc.netguide.co.il. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Assaf Harofeh Medical Center". Ahmc.netguide.co.il. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ Aaron Parry (2004). The complete idiot's guide to the Talmud. Penguin. ISBN 9781440696176. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Assaf Harofeh Medical Center – About AHMC". Ahmc.netguide.co.il. Archived from the original on November 30, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Josef Woodman (2008). Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel. Healthy Travel Media. ISBN 9780982336106. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

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