The New Medical Pavilion

A major donation has now enabled us to embark upon the construction of the new Medical Pavilion. The donation has covered the costs of  the initial planning, excavation, development  and frame of the building.

We are currently raising funds to construct and furnish the various floors and departments, which are all available for naming.

The building will comprise 6 full floors of patient departments. Each floor, measuring over 2,200 sq. meters, will house up to 72 beds in facilities incorporating the latest in hospital design and technological infra-structure. The new Medical Pavilion will enable the hospital to expand to fulfill the needs of the 21st century with the ever-growing elderly population, including many Holocaust survivors.

The patient floors will  house two departments to each floor with 28-36 patients to each department. The major departments will be; Psychogeriatrics  (catering mainly to patients with dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease); an expansion of the Adult Respiratory Department (the hospital currently houses over 110 patients of all ages on respirators – the largest concentration of its kind in the country); a Complex Nursing Department (which includes units for Pressure Sores, Nutrition, Brain Cancer Care and End-of-Life Hospice); Acute Geriatric Internal Medicine; Dialysis and Geriatric Rehabilitation. Each floor will also have a dining/TV area and a day room, treatment rooms, and staff offices. An expanded Respiratory Care Department for children will be located on the top floor.

An Underground Emergency Hospital, to house and treat patients in their beds, is being constructed in one of the two basement levels and will be equipped accordingly using the latest protective equipment. This is a direct result of the recent  conflicts,  as  building  requirements  for hospitals have  been  revised  to include  expanded  shelters  for  the  protection  of  patients  and  staff from  rocket  fire.  An  expanded  Radiology  Suite  and  a  Synagogue  will be built into the side of the mountain on one of the hospitalization floors and will also double as a shelter in case of attack. Another basement level will house the technical support equipment such as generators, compressors etc.

The new pavilion is being designed and constructed as a “green” building, the first hospital in Israel designed from the “ground-up” to be environmentally friendly.