Rambam Hospital

Rambam Health Care Campus
Emergency center of the Rambam Health Care Campus
Geography
Location	Haifa, Israel
Coordinates	32°50′00″N 34°59′09″E / 32.8333837°N 34.9858396°E / 32.8333837; 34.9858396Coordinates: 32°50′00″N 34°59′09″E / 32.8333837°N 34.9858396°E / 32.8333837; 34.9858396
Organisation
Funding	Public, Government, and Non-Profit
Hospital type	Tertiary Referral Center for Northern Israel
Affiliated university	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Services
Emergency department	yes
Helipad	yes
Beds	1,000
History
Founded	1938
Links
Website	rambam.org.il

Rambam Health Care Campus (Hebrew: רמב"ם - הקריה הרפואית לבריאות האדם‎‎), or Rambam Hospital, is a hospital in the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa, Israel established in 1938.

It is the largest medical center in northern Israel and fifth largest in Israel, and is named for the 12th century physician-philosopher Rabbi Moshe Ben-Maimon (Maimonides), known as the Rambam.

Rambam Health Care Campus is also an academic teaching hospital affiliated with the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of the Technion, Israel's oldest university.

Rambam Hospital serves as a referral medical center and Level I trauma center, employing a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment. Some 80,000 people are hospitalized there every year, and another 600,000 are treated in its outpatient clinics and medical institutes. The Technion's medical school is located adjacent to the hospital. The medical center has 36 departments with 1000 beds, 45 medical units, 9 institutes, 6 laboratories and 30 administrative and maintenance departments. Comprehensive services for all of northern Israel include trauma treatment, oncology, and neurosurgery.

The Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital officially opened in its peacetime configuration in 2014, following a successful drill to test emergency preparedness. Work on this fortified emergency underground hospital began in 2010; it was designed to withstand conventional, chemical, and biological attacks. Planning for this project began in 2007. The project includes a three-floor parking lot that can be transformed within 72 hours into a 2,000-bed hospital. Made possible through a donation by the late Sammy Ofer, the hospital can generate its own power and store enough oxygen, drinking water and medical supplies for up to three days.

The recently opened Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital has the largest pediatric emergency department in the north of Israel. This nine-story hospital, named for Ruth Rappaport—wife of banker and financier Bruce Rappaport—replaces the current Meyer Children's Hospital, providing additional pediatric facilities. In addition to new patient wards, there is a museum, classrooms and a movie theater.