Christian Friends of LEARN Rambam Newsletter MORE VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 JULY 2014 Jerusalem Post Article: July 10 Rambam News 2014 Rambam Making Health Not War Summit on Rambam Health Care Campus is released home. Having fought the safety and security of our YouTube located in Haifa, Israel—a city for that person’s life, we can patients and staff. In light of renowned for peaceful only hope they will remain well current events, now, more than coexistence between its mixed and safe. On the other hand, we ever, we must be prepared. Jewish and Arab population. can make arrangements for the In this issue we share with you ongoing care of Palestinian Like Haifa, many ethnic groups our plans and vision for a patients—we can and we do. are represented among our comprehensive infrastructure to employees and patients. Political Physicians at Rambam are assure the safety of society’s perspectives lose significance in actively involved in medical weakest members—the sick and the fight to save lives. Restoring research with the goal of helping infirm—along with those who sick people to health takes people beyond our borders. But care for them. precedence in a hospital—after first and foremost, their focus is all, were we not all created in today’s patients. Each doctor is INSIDE the image of God? committed to one mission: life. THIS ISSUE: Patients treated at Rambam are In times of overcrowding or Parking 2 not limited to Israeli citizens. As emergency situations, our health Preferred the only Level One Trauma care professionals may work Here Center in the north, we also double and triple receive patients from Syria, the shifts. Lian, a Palestinian Children and 2 Palestinian Authority and many Since the 2006 toddler, has lived Families other Mediterranean nations. war with Lebanon, at Rambam HCC First One of the greatest struggles Rambam has been for 17 months undergoing treatment for The Heart 2 for our health care professionals on an ambitious oxalosis—she has had a kidney transplant Matters is the day a Syrian patient is journey to assure and still needs a liver transplant. Rambam 3 Prepares for War What You Didn’t Know... Peace— 3 Well before the Second Few people know that safety Hospital. The linear accelerators Lebanon War, Rambam had against conventional and uncon- used in the new Joseph Fishman You Can 3 been planning construction of an ventional warfare was central to Oncology Center would be Help underground hospital and other this project. Rambam’s surgery permanently installed in the facilities. When missiles landed suites had already been fortified underground hospital. Current 4 near Rambam in 2006, and at against conventional and With another $151 million still Needs at the government’s request, those unconventional warfare. Now, needed, much remains to be Rambam plans were further refined. full fortification had to be drawn done. Nevertheless, today, in into the plans of a renovated ER To meet ongoing needs, and to the event of war, we can assure (completed in 2009), and parts assure the safety and security of the safety of our patients and of the new Sammy Ofer Under- patients and staff, Rambam staff. People around the world ground Fortified Emergency undertook an ambitious have heard of our need and Hospital, the Ruth Rappaport expansion project, with an generously given. For this we Children’s Hospital, and the yet estimated partial cost of $373.5 are deeply thankful. to be named Cardiovascular million. PAGE 2 Parking Preferred Here The 2,000-bed Sammy Ofer quality of care as in our above ground emergency hospital. Fortified Underground -ground facility. We still need funds to finish Emergency Hospital opened in Dedicated elevators will equipping the underground April. In daily use as an connect the underground hospital—but if we need the underground parking lot, this hospital with the fortified facility now, we can use it. facility can convert within 72 hospitalization units above hours to a fully fortified three The underground has gained ground. -level underground hospital. the attention of many, Before opening, a special drill including Dr. Qanta Ahmed. Parking bays will become was successfully held to test Enjoy reading her article and patient wards and treatment logistics and preparedness of viewing this movie about the Transfer of a patient rooms. Everything needed for the underground hospital. drill. Please keep us in your to the underground ongoing care of the sick and prayers, that should the time hospital during the wounded will be available: Today, visitors see one of the come, we will have everything surgical suites, delivery tables, cleanest parking lots ever. But March drill. needed. incubators, dialysis units, Photo Credit: RHCC hidden behind the walls, in the linear accelerators, and more. ceilings, and in storage, are all Read the blog post Wounded soldiers and the items needed for trans- Watch the YouTube Movie civilians will receive the same forming into a fortified under- Children and Families First On June 18, the most Parts of the hospital are hospital will be occupied in sophisticated and advanced fortified to protect the stages, with funds still needed children’s hospital in Israel weakest of the weak: the to complete the interior for opened at Rambam: The Ruth pediatric emergency two of its nine floors and to Staff in the new pediatric Rappaport Children’s Hospi- department, the neonatal equip some departments. emergency room of the tal. A long-time supporter of intensive care unit, and the Please pray for our staff, our Rambam, Ruth Rappaport pediatric intensive care unit. recently opened Ruth patients, and for the soon helped make it all possible. For children in these sections, Rappaport Children's provision to finish equipping simply moving them could Hospital. The new children’s hospital this important and necessary destabilize their conditions! Photo Credit: Pioter Fliter includes spacious wards, play hospital. rooms, a science museum, The emergency department is classrooms, and more. already open. The rest of the View the Photo Album Top & Left) Joseph Fishman Oncology The Heart Matters Center. Bottom & Right) Cardiovascular many), and enable the best The shell of this building has The disease (CVD) is care possible for these at-risk been constructed. However, the leading cause patients. funds are still needed to Cardiovascular of death and complete its construction and In time of war, even the Hospital. disability in Israel. to then equip it. Photo Credit: slightest motion can endanger The new the lives of some CVD Please pray for our Pioter Fliter Cardiovascular patient. For this reason, the cardiovascular patients, for Hospital will meet Rambam’s bottom two floors of the the medical staff who care for need for additional facilities Cardiovascular Hospital will them, and for hearts to be for these patients, enable care be fully fortified. moved to give for this much in one building (instead of needed hospital. CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM NEWSLETTER VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 PAGE 3 Rambam Prepares for War Making health, not war, is what and generous donations. Today we carefully applying the standards set Rambam Health Care Campus is have a safe underground facility for forth in our Bible and holy texts— all about. Health is far more than providing medical care we must to behave in the most ethical, the lack of disease—it includes the deliver during wartime. moral, and decent way possible concept of prevention to promote under the changing circumstances What did Maimonides, the wellbeing and vitality. However, in which we may find ourselves. Rambam, have to say about war in Rambam is also a tertiary care his writings which still serve us Truly we long for no armed center, a governmental hospital today, almost 900 years later? The conflicts, for peace and serenity to that treats the most trauma Rambam explains that justifications flourish everywhere and for all patients in the country. for war vary: some are time. Until then, our role at Geographically, Rambam is highly commanded, some are permitted, Rambam is to bring healing to the exposed to enemy missiles— some are for land expansion, and wounded and diseased, to something we lived through in yet others to defend the people promote health, and to Moses Maimonides, also 2006. The chronic relapse to war and land in which one lives. All see every patient as a known as Rabbi Moshe Ben in our region is distressing and peoples yearn for peace and human whose suffering sobering. Much preparation is serenity, yet conflicting interests may be relieved through Mimon (the Rambam) required to maintain any standard do sometimes lead to war. our efforts. In this way we or special services during wartime. become active partners in bringing Whether King, captain, or foot healing to the world. As the drums of war beat ever soldier, the Rambam’s perspective louder in recent weeks, our (and my own) is to strive to main- medical staff sadly review and tain the highest possible moral and Jesse Lachter, MD Language, revise emergency plans. These ethical conduct with regard to Clinical Associate Professor plans are markedly improved from administration of and participation and Gastroenterologist 2006 because of careful thought, in war. From this perspective any Rambam Health Care Campus Culture, gifted engineers and architects, endeavor can be elevated by and Peace— Rambam Nearly everyone is familiar with Thou will keep him in perfect peace affecting the health of all the Hebrew word for peace, peace, whose mind is stayed on creation as well. shalom (). In Biblical Hebrew, Thee, because he trusteth in Thee. More than the absence of war, this word is rarely connected with In Hebrew, the word shalom Biblical peace is one that rests in the absence of war—the meaning appears twice in this verse—hence the God of Israel, pervades the is much larger.