As Operation Iron Swords is being waged in Israel, Hadassah Hospital is fighting desperately to save lives and heal the wounded. As the violence escalates, the number of injured – soldiers and citizens – continues to rise. Many of these individuals suffer from severe physical injuries, such as gunshot wounds, shrapnel injuries, and amputations, which […]
Throughout the pandemic, Hadassah’s psychiatry unit has been full, with a six-month waiting list for new patients. Its day clinics have been at capacity, too, fielding 17,000 patients in 2021 and a months-long waiting list just to get an appointment. At certain times during the pandemic, many interventions went remote, but “therapy via Zoom is […]
Coping with Anxiety, Depression and PTSD in these Extraordinary Times
Prof. Esti Galili, Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem, together with Dr. Claudio Michanie, Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the CEMIC University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prof. Galili emphasised that she was not sharing knowledge but rather sharing her experience in this pandemic. Dr. Michanie expressed […]
Moving into the Future: Hadassah Dedicates New OR Complex
The long-awaited operating room complex for the Hadassah Medical Centre’s Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower was dedicated on January 10th. Built to allow Hadassah’s high-level surgical teams to carry out complicated surgeries under optimal conditions, with a level of technology used by the world’s top-tier hospitals, the complex took eight years to complete at a […]
