Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is the largest clinical complex in Israel, founded in 1961. The Hospital wore the name Ichilov Hospital until 1973. The complex has 5 divisions: General clinic, rehabilitation center, children’s hospital and the maternity ward and the Heart Institute “Sammy Ofer.”
There are 1100 hospital beds, 60 departments and institutions, 150 outpatient departments in the Center. It employs 980 physicians and 468 other health professionals. The teaching staff of the Tel Aviv Medical University is leading a medical practice at this center. Junior medical personnel consists of approximately 2050 people.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center’s strategy of developing and expanding centers of excellence has created tremendous demand for services—by over 1.5 million patients per year, who receive optimal expert care. To maintain the leading position among the other Israeli medical complexes, most of the expenses of Sourasky Medical Center are spent in the acquisition and maintenance of the latest medical equipment.
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is the center of the global medical tourism. A multybranch complex program has been effectively used for many years in the Ichilov Medical Center for the foreign tourists. It provides the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment, attentive and caring attitude of the medical staff. 20 laboratory departments of the Ichilov diagnostic center is superior to the level of many European laboratories. You can hold the following laboratory tests: hematology, genetic, microbiological, general, radioisotope, endocrinology, etc. These laboratories have positive feedback by the quality control Institute.
The multiprofile medical center “Ichilov” is specialized in various fields of medicine: neurosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery, microsurgery of the nervous system, trauma, surgical oncology, orthopedic oncology, transplantation of the liver, pancreas and others.
In the field of oncology “Ichilov” Hospital doctors have achieved the greatest success. In the “Ichilov” center have been developed and successfully applied in practice, non-surgical treatment of skin cancer, and surgeries to remove malignant cardiac tumors. New technologies of treatment of multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukemia, have been developed here.
Every year in the department of neurosurgery thousands of operations are carried out in traumatic or organic lesion of the spinal, brain and peripheral nerves.
“Ichilov” Hospital Department of Orthopedic Oncology successfully cope with benign and malignant tumors of the hands and soft tissue.
The Department of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) – Head and Neck Surgery at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center treats a wide range of patients who need surgical or conservative treatments for the nasal passages, sinuses, ears, mouth, pharynx, throat, head and neck regions, or the base of the brain. Doctors in the department perform complex surgical procedures to remove benign and malignant tumors in the skull base, head, neck, and trachea, as well as reconstructive surgery.
The Souraski medical center is using numerous reproductive In Vitro Fertilization ( IVF) technologies. The clinic has its own sperm bank. It is the largest medical center of Israel for the treatment of infertility.
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital treats children of all ages, from newborn to age 16. Dana-Dwek’s expert medical professionals offer individualized care for each child, to address his or her specific medical, physical, and emotional needs. All elements of care – including treatment method, child-sized equipment, and facility architecture – are focused on the special needs that children have.
The Division of Cardiology at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center cares for the complete spectrum of heart patients, from critically ill patients (such as heart attack patients); to chronic patients who require ongoing therapeutic monitoring, or rehabilitation; to patients seeking preventive care.
The high level of training and technical equipment of the cardiovascular surgery department makes it possible successfully treat patients suffering from congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, heart valve disease, tumors of the chest cavity and so on. Heart transplant unique operations are carried out in Ichilov Hospital.
The Division of Orthopedics of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center treats a wide variety of conditions related to the skeletal system and movement – bone, joint, and connective tissue – such as joint replacements, traumatic injuries, and sports conditions, osteoarthritis, arthritis, diabetic foot.
In the Department of Plastic Surgery are conducted reconstructive surgeries after surgical treatment of tumors of the head, neck, breast resection, burns and injuries. The high professional level of doctors and modern equipment allows to carry out surgical operations of any complexity.
As a Tel Aviv University research base , Department of Urology Medical Center treats kidney disease, applying the most innovative techniques.