2014 ANNUAL REPORT Pictured on Cover: the Ruth Rappaport Children’S Hospital RAMBAMHCC 2014 ANNUAL REPORT HOPE STARTS HERE
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RAMBAMHCC 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Pictured on cover: The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital RAMBAMHCC 2014 ANNUAL REPORT HOPE STARTS HERE The new Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital opens JUNE 2014 RUTH RAPPAPORT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN NUMBERS 110% OCCUPANCY 99% 97% 83% 78% 81% 77% 58,056 53% HOSPITALIZATION DAYS Oncology Newborn Surgery Pediatric A Pediatric B NeonatologyIntensive Care Bone marrow Transplants 23,243 26% EMERGENCY HOSPITALIZED ADMISSIONS 3,534 ON 1,100 ONCOLOGY OUTPATIENT CHILDREN TREATMENTS 7,701 ON 53 Dialysis TREATMENTS CHILDREN AGE 0-1 YRS 17% 11-18 YRS 32% 1-5 YRS 33% 44,132 6-10 YRS CHILDREN TREATED 18% in 2014 AGE 0-1 YRS 7% 11-18 YRS 1-5 YRS 43% 28% 5,334 SURGERIES 6-10 YRS 22% <750gr 751- 24 1000gr 19 1001- 1500gr 49 >2501gr 524 222 PREMATURE BIRTHS 1501- 2500gr 210 ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ISRAEL’S 600,000 CHILDREN WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Ruth & Bruce Rappaport and Family Ariela & Eitan Wertheimer Joan & Sanford Weill and the Weill Family Foundation Meri & Sol J. Barer Herta & Paul Amir Relly & Brent Dibner Irma & Aaron Spencer The David & Jacqueline Simon Family The Israel Cancer Association (R.A) Effi & Eli Goldhar The D. Dan & Betty Kahn Foundation Goldie Feldman, Barry & Laurie Green and Family, David Green, Daphne Wagner, Lita & Mickey Green Harry & Sara Gorman, Hy & Bertha Shore David A. Cohen Family Alice & Maurice Benard Women’s League for Israel Dream Doctors The Leir Charitable Foundations Anonymous, Switzerland Tatyana & Alan J. Forman The Greidinger Family Michelle Kahn Zahava & Yoram Cedar Fondation Adelis Pierre Mandel Erna Feist-Elzas …and 981 donors worldwide for helping make the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital a reality 7 7 Professor Rafi Beyar MD, DSc, MPH Director & CEO Rambam Health Care Campus RAMBAMHCC l 2014 ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR FROM VISION TO REALITY Esteemed friends and benefactors… In front of our eyes, Rambam is undergoing an extraordinary transformation. Cement trucks and cranes are giving way to tall, gleaming structures, projecting a powerful message that the future of medical care is unfolding right here on the Rambam Health Care Campus. The Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital is brimming with activity, with the last two of its floors now being completed in time for the 2016 Summit. The wonder in the eyes of children and parents as they enter the hospital’s expansive, colorful atrium reflects a transition from fear and concern to optimism and hope. The opening of the Ruth Rappaport Children’s Hospital is excellent news for the citizens of Northern Israel and the entire country. Every detail 9 FROM THE DIRECTOR RAISED IN 2014 $ Pressing needs in departments 25.1 M and services throughout FROM Rambam present opportunities 2,618 for meaningful DONORS giving IN Rambam’s West Campus 32 remains very much a work COUNTRIES in progress. The imminent opening of the Joseph Fishman Oncology Center, and the challenges of recruiting of the new hospital is intended funding for its equipment and to create an optimally healing facilities, will be the focus of environment, where physicians, our attention for the coming children, and their families can two years. Specifically, the devote their energies to the most completion of two entire floors important task of all—getting and a new radiotherapy unit back to health. will require major gifts, and will significantly upgrade the The newly opened Sammy treatment extended to cancer Ofer Underground Emergency patients throughout Northern Watch Rabbi Hospital extends a critical sense Israel. Eckstein, Founder & of security for our professional Pres. of IFCJ staff, armed forces and the Work on the Cardiovascular at Gratitude citizens of Northern Israel. Hospital and the Biomedical Ceremony During the summer of 2014, Discovery Tower will hopefully Operation Protective Edge begin in the next year and underscored the urgency of intensive efforts are underway this vital facility so near the to complete the planning and nation’s highly unstable northern secure funding to bring these border, and we continue to seek projects to fruition. partners who will enable us to complete its remaining features. RAMBAMHCC l 2014 ANNUAL REPORT We believe in people andlorem in ipsumleadership, and continue to invest heavily in our clinical staff, whose professional development and desire for innovation must be nurtured. Not all of our efforts are directed Rambam’s achievements are towards bricks, mortar and especially noteworthy when equipment; quite the contrary. observed against the backdrop of Israel’s troubled healthcare Watch the This past year we recruited seven system. In a prevailing Department of new department leaders whose atmosphere of budget-cuts Neonatology levels of expertise, matched and downsizing, Rambam is and NICU by our new facilities, further surging ahead, powered by move into its Rambam’s position as a world- vision, partnership, courage, new home class hospital. and commitment to shaping the future of medical care. In the research arena, we have made a strategic decision to I take this opportunity, on behalf focus on genetics and precision of our patients, physicians, medicine—with particular nurses and support staff, to emphasis on the connection express our gratitude to all of between genetics, cancer and our friends and supporters who environmental health. The have helped Rambam become rationale for this decision will be an inspiration and model for underscored in the Rambam- hospitals in Israel and abroad. Haifa Health of Tomorrow Conference during the 2015 Rambam Summit. Rafi Beyar, MD, DSc, MPH 11 Welcome to Rambam, THE North’s premier teaching hospital and research center. RAMBAMHCC l 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 13 A LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENT: DR. HANNA ADMI A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Hanna Admi this summer, for 45 years of professional service, including 18 years In front of our eyes, Rambam is as Rambam’s Director, and for making undergoing Rambam a model ofan nursing extraordinary excellence transformation. throughout Israel. RAMBAMHCC l 2014 ANNUAL REPORT What events have been care. Even as medicine and pivotal in your career? technologies are perpetually Forty years ago, as a young changing, the needs and 60% nurse at a personal crossroad, expectations of the patient NURSES WITH I was awarded the first Cheryl remain constant. BA DEGREES Spencer Nursing Scholarship for academic studies. That decisive How did you bring your & moment set me on an academic academic experience path that led to four years of to nursing at Rambam? 18% graduate and doctoral studies at I believe that the more a nurse is NURSES WITH the University of Pennsylvania, educated, the better evidence- MA DEGREES and a lifelong pursuit of learning. based care she or he provides. & My relationship with Cheryl’s At Rambam we were the first to parents, Irma and Aaron, implement the Clinical Ladder remains as close as family, and for nurses, which provides a 0.3% we recently celebrated the 40th framework and incentive for NURSES WITH anniversary of the Spencer academic advancement. Today, Scholarships. close to 80% of Rambam’s PHD DEGREES nurses have academic degrees. And when you returned Not coincidentally, in Ministry of to Rambam? Health inspections, our nursing Although my original plan was services consistently receive top to become a research nurse, ratings nationwide. instead I was offered the position of Deputy Director of Nursing. How else has nursing developed From the very beginning I loved under your leadership? being in a managerial position Nurses at Rambam are and the opportunity it gave to encouraged to study and implement my values and vision. conduct research, which has significantly upgraded their And what are those values? status within the healthcare That behind the pajamas and team. Overall, Rambam is a the pathologies, the patient workplace that offers a wealth is a human being, with fears of opportunities for growth and and hopes, who deserves the fulfillment. best quality of compassionate 15 One Year and a New Kidney Later “Many new friends are helping us here – Jews, Muslims and ChristianS.” - Maisa Barhoum, Lian’s Mother It has been a year and a half received a partial liver transplant work and family behind to remain since Lian Barhoum came to from her mother last year. Lian’s at Lian’s bedside. Rambam for life-saving treatment treatment was supported by the that is not available in Gaza. Joan and Sanford I. Weill Israeli- Rambam, its physicians, staff and Palestinian Friendship Center supporters, have opened their Recently Lian underwent a kidney hearts to provide the medical transplant with an organ donated Now, just over two years old, care and assistance Lian needs by her father. This was her Rambam is the only home that to lead a healthy life. second such procedure, having Lian knows. Both parents left RAMBAMHCC l 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Saving Syrian 106 Civilians SYRIAN CIVILIANS Since the outbreak of Syria’s bloody TREATED AT civil war, Rambam has extended RAMBAM AS OF humanitarian aid to a steady stream DECEMBER 2014 of civilians caught in the crossfire. A five-year old boy brought to the hospital in critical condition with a bullet lodged in his neck underwent emergency surgery for its removal. After, Dr. Saleh Nassir, one of the surgeons on the operating team, informed the boy’s father of the operation’s successful outcome, “he hugged us and thanked us from the bottom of his heart for saving his son’s life.” 17 The Herta and Paul Amir Pediatric Cardiology Institute Tiny Hearts – Enormous Achievements 3,500 Interventional Therapeutic Procedures on Children in 25 Years After a quarter of a century treating over 100,000 children with congenital heart disorders, The Herta and Paul Amir Pediatric Cardiology Institute is ready to take on the future from its new home in the Professor Avraham Lorber, Director, The Herta and Paul Amir Pediatric Ruth Rappaport Children’s Cardiology Institute Hospital.