Hadassah Medical Center in Israel

Hadassah medical center Israel: features & strengths

1. Innovative devices for examinations and therapies. In Israel, only Hadassah has its own cyclotron. Implementing this apparatus, physicians produce radiopharmaceuticals for PET-CT.
2. Interdisciplinary general approach. In complex operations, specialists from all areas gather and jointly decide what therapy should be prescribed to patients for a particular clinical picture. It helps to provide more efficient therapy and faster rehabilitation.
3. Therapy of aggressive cancer diseases. Clinic’s doctors also work with little-studied pathologies, comprehensively examining them and developing therapeutic agents. Doctors implement modernized methods for such practice, particularly, cancer treatment with ultrasound (HIFU-therapy), chemoembolization and operations with the Da Vinci robot.
4. In Hadassah, double coronary artery grafting was performed firstly in Israel. Patients who have experienced cardiac ischemia undergo coronary artery grafting using innovative technology – using miniature holes, without dissecting chest.
5. Focus on reproductive medicine. At the maternity ward of Hadassah, there is an IVF center, a sperm bank and an ultrasound room. There’s a fertility preservation unit. Every year, gynecologists perform almost 4,000 IVF procedures.

Hadassa units and centers

Hadassah university medical center provides diagnostics and therapy of ailments in the following specializations.

1. Neurosurgery.
2. Pulmonology.
3. Mammalogy.
4. Reproductive department.
5. Orthopedic division.
6. Cardiac unit.
7. Transplantation.
8. Abdominoplasty and liposuction unit.
9. Gynecological department.
10. Children’s cardiac surgery.
11. Children’s ophthalmology.
12. Pediatric oncohematology.
13. Rehabilitation division.
14. Oncology center.
15. IVF center.

Narrow specialization

• Oncological therapy.

Oncologists of the clinic conduct examination and treatment of all types of malignant neoplasms based on evidence-based medicine, using methods such as radiation therapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, etc.

• Orthopedics.

Orthopedists of the hospital perform complex operations and prosthetics for patients with tumors and inflammation of muscles and bones.

Joints are examined using the methods of arthroscopy and arthrography. After the specialist creates the correct model of the prosthesis on the computer, the joint will be replaced. Such procedures improve clarity of endoprosthesis installation and protect it from loosening.

Specialists also implement laser therapy to eliminate benign neoplasms. The method makes it possible to get rid of the tumor, while maintaining healthy cells.

• Pediatrics.

Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has several departments for the treatment of childhood illnesses. Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons deal with vascular and heart pathologies. Children undergo examination, treatment and are in the hospital until they recover completely. About 140 cardiac catheterizations are performed annually.

Pediatric hematologists specialize in leukemia. They also treat benign nature pathologies – thalassemia and hypoplastic anemia.

Certification

Hadassah university medical center was nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Prize for advancing clinical opportunities in its region – it was first in Israel to perform a kidney transplant and a heart transplant. Clinic performed the world’s first hip replacement using computerized mechanisms.