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Years Of… Years Of… YEARS OF… YEARS OF… RAMBAMHCC ANNUAL REPORT 2017 American Friends of Rambam www.aforam.org [email protected] (212) 292-4499 Australian Friends of Rambam www.ausforam.org.au [email protected] (61) 0410 531 593 British Friends of Rambam (Rambam UK) www.rambamuk.co.uk [email protected] (208) 343-8749 Canadian Friends of Rambam www.cfram.ca [email protected] (416) 481-5552 French Friends of Rambam [email protected] (33) 7 82 53 71 10 Friends of Rambam in India [email protected] (98) 191-113-40 Spanish Friends of Rambam www.amigosderambam.org [email protected] (609) 580-268 Israeli Friends of Rambam www.rambam.org.il [email protected] (04) 852-0670 Israel Main Office & All Other Countries www.rambam.org.il [email protected] +972 (4) 777-2919 Pictured on cover: Prof. David Ehrlich (l) and Prof. Ori Better, inducted into the Rambam Leadership Circle in 2017, with Nurse Ilana Ungerman-Tamir. Photo: December 1965 1940 1945 1938-48 Dr. John Herbert Thompson First Hospital Director The graphic relief adorning the hospital’s I O A T N first building in 1938 was designed by the R U world-renowned British sculptor and G type designer Eric Gill U A N I 1938 December 22 YEARS New Government Hospital OF Inaugurated in Bat Galim, Haifa EXCELLENCE, INNOVATION AND HUMANITY ’38 German Jewish expressionist architect Erich Mendelsohn 1950 1955 1948-63 Dr. Raphael Gjebin Second Hospital Director 1948-58 Elsa Yellin - First Head Nurse I O A T N 1948 R U School of Nursing Established, G Headed by Elsa Yellin U A N I I O 1952 A T N R U Government Hospital G Becomes Rambam U A N I 1948 Following an attack on Kibbutz Gesher it was decided to evacuate all the mothers and children to the Carmelite convent next to the hospital Declaration of ’48 Independence of the State of Israel 1960 1965 Dr. Moshe Lazar Third Hospital Director 1958-80 Rosa Haran - Second Head Nurse I O A T N 1965 R U First Deceased G U Donor Kidney A 1967 N Transplant in I Israel First Regional Installation of Hyperbaric Pressure Chamber 1962 New Outpatient Clinics Building Opens 1965 New Semilunar Model for Cardiac Intensive Care—First in the World at Rambam 1970 1975 1963-75 1975-79 Dr. Moshe Lazar Professor Reuven Eldar Third Hospital Director Fourth Hospital Director 1967 1978 First Regional Installation of Advanced Radioisotope Hyperbaric Pressure Chamber Imaging Comes to Rambam 1969 Establishment of the Faculty of Medicine ’73Yom Kippur War Forces Early Occupancy of New Hospitalization Building I O A T N R U G U A N I ’67Rambam Treats Soldiers Injured in Six Day War 1985 1979-81 1981-86 Professor Reuven Eldar Professor Leon Epstein Professor Joseph Brandes Fourth Hospital Director Fifth Hospital Director Sixth Hospital Director 1980-83 Mazal Lubezki - Third Head Nurse 1982 The first Rambam logo 1983 New Protocol Developed 1978 for Treating Crush Syndrome—Now Used Advanced Radioisotope 1982 Worldwide Imaging Comes to Rambam The Medical Research Fund (Rambam Health Corporation) is Established 1985 First In Vitro Fertilization in the Region in Rambam’s Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1980 First Otolaryngological Laser Surgery in Israel T I O N 1986 A 1978 R U The Menashe Meyer G Rambam’s First Computed Children’s House U Tomography System Installed A N (Meyer Children’s I Hospital) Opens ’82Rambam is the Designated Hospital for Casualties During the First Lebanon War 1995 1990 1986-2005 Professor Moshe Revach Seventh Hospital Director 1983-97 Miriam Hasharoni - Fifth Head Nurse 1999 T I O N A Teaching Center for Trauma, R 1992 U Emergency, and Mass Casualty G U First Stent Situations (MCS) Opens A N Catheterization in I the Department of Cardiology 1995 Rambam Works 1998 with Biosense to Develop Cardiac Mapping System Discovery of Human Embryonic Stem Cells I O A T N R U G 2000 U A N I Vision of Adam (Humanity) ’90Rambam Patients & Staff 1994 Prepare for Chemical Warfare First Trauma Treatment During the Gulf War Center in Israel Opens at Rambam 1997 Discovery of DNA Markers that Identify the Jewish Priesthood 2000 1997-2015 Dr. Hanna Admi - Sixth Head Nurse I O 2000 2001 A T N R U Development of GE Healthcare’s New G Computerized PET-CT Imaging System U A Medical Records Developed at Rambam N I System—Prometheus I O A T N R U 2002 G U World’s First A N Beating Heart Cells I from Embryonic Stem Cells Collaboration With Given Imaging to Develop a Gastrointestinal Camera 2000 Vision of Adam (Humanity) Hospital Under Fire The Second Lebanon War 2005 2005 Rambam changes its identity from Medical Center to Health Care Campus T I O N I O A A T N R R 2005 U U G G Rambam Opens 12 New U A U N A Fortified Surgical Suites I N I 2008 Implementing the Clinical Research ‘Vision of Adam’ Institute at Rambam (CRIR) 2007 Established Establishment of First Competitive Research Programs for Clinician T I O N 2009 Scientists—Atidim A R Fortified & Ofakim U G Emergency U A Department N I Opens Hospital2006 Under Fire The Second Lebanon War 2010 2006-PRESENT Professor Rafi Beyar Eighth Hospital Director RAMBAM Health Care Campus 2010 2013 The First Rambam Summit Creating the future of medicine. Rambam & Rambam Award graphic identity is restructured 2012 2014 I O Rambam MedTech Ltd. A T N R The Sammy Ofer Established U Fortified G U Underground A N Emergency I Hospital Opens 2010 Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is Launched 2013 MRI-Guided Focused I O A T N Ultrasound for R Treatment of National Biobank U Essential and at Rambam G U Parkinson’s Inaugurated A N Tremor—First I in Israel I O A T N 2014 R U The Ruth Rappaport G U Children's Hospital Opens A N 2011 I Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System Installed 2015 2015 - PRESENT Gila Hyams - Seventh Head Nurse 2017 Rambam Receives JCI Accreditation with 2015 Honors Rambam Knowledge Center Established 2017 Cornerstone Laid for 2016 2018 Groundbreaking for Helmsley Health Discovery Tower The Joseph Fishman the Eyal Ofer Heart Oncology Center Hospital Opens I O A T N R U G U A N I I O A T N Israel R U G Celebrates U A N I 70 2015 Rambam MindUp Incubator Celebrates Established 80 FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Friends to fruition through the establishment of the If I had to choose a single word to Helmsley Health Discovery Tower: a one-of-a- describe 2017 at Rambam, it would kind, multidisciplinary hub for healthcare, medical be “synergy.” This was the year research, education, and innovation. that Rambam joined forces with a Strategically positioned at the heart of a dynamic number of key strategic partners array of medical research and development to leverage our collective capacity activities, the Helmsley Health Discovery Tower for transformative health care. will have a profound and transformative effect on the world of medicine. It represents a unique The year began with the signing of a letter of collaborative model that is virtually unknown understanding between Rambam and the in Israel. Three distinct institutions – Rambam, University of Haifa, creating a unique partnership University of Haifa and the Technion – will have between the two institutions to jointly establish clinical, educational, and research departments a high-rise tower for research and education housed within its walls, facilitating collaborative on Rambam’s west campus. It ended with the opportunities via the surrounding clinical and landmark decision by The Leona M. and Harry B. innovation ecosystem. Additional facilities Helmsley Charitable Trust to bring this project within will be dedicated to the hi-tech medical Professor Rafi Beyar RAMBAMHCC l 2017 ANNUAL REPORT Eyal Ofer and Prof. Beyar breaking ground for the Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital industry, enabling on- The Joseph Fishman site consultations and Oncology Center is cooperation with clinical bringing the latest and research partners. The developments in cancer potential impact of such treatments to Rambam’s a critical mass of top level academic patients, with new linear and industry research activities cannot be accelerators that support precision treatments, overestimated. As Haifa mayor Yonah Yahav with minimal side effects, to our cancer patients. observed, the Helmsley Health Discovery Tower We expect the linear accelerators project to be will position Haifa as a center for life science completed during 2018. Patients at the center and biotechnology innovation and industry for are also are benefitting from the extensive clinical all of Israel. collaborations with the Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC), under the leadership of In another major development this year, ground Nobel laureate Professor Aaron Ciechanover. was broken for the new Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital. Mr. Ofer, his wife Marilyn and daughter Olivia, In early 2018, Rambam marked the passing of our attended the ceremony marking the continuation beloved friend and benefactress, Ruth Rappaport. of this historic partnership between the Ofer The patients and staff of Ruth Rappaport family and Rambam. We have worked closely Children’s Hospital were thankful to have had Ruth with the Eyal and Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation and her family here in 2017 to on the plans for the new hospital, towards a projected completion date in early 2019. The Rambam family says goodbye to a loyal and The Eyal Ofer Heart Hospital will provide visionary friend. Rambam with the most advanced means Ruth Rappaport of blessed memory to treat and prevent heart disease, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world.
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