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Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Today the most comprehensive medical facility in Israel and the Middle East, the Sheba Medical Center (SMC) began as a small military hospital established parallel to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. The first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, tasked Dr. Chaim Sheba with the challenge of opening a hospital to treat the wounded of Israel's War of Independence, especially the many men and women injured in the battles to secure the road to Jerusalem.
In the close to 60 years since then, the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer has grown into a into a 150-acre university-teaching hospital, with 120 departments and clinics, 1,700 beds, and 6,000 healthcare professionals, scientists and support staff. It serves as the teaching facility for Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine and School of Nursing. SMC uniquely combines a major Acute Care Hospital with a Rehabilitation Hospital, Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital. SMC merges Israel’s best advances in high-tech science and medicine with traditional healing services, including the finest nursing faculty and outstanding care for the elderly.
Over the decades, Sheba has been credited with many Israeli medical "firsts." Sheba conducted Israel's first open-heart, artificial heart, and pediatric congenital heart surgeries, and Israel's first test-tube baby was born at Sheba. Today, Sheba leads Israel in medical innovation and technology as well as medical research.
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Quick Facts
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| Type |
Medical Center University Teaching and Research Facility |
| Campus |
150 Acres |
| Departments & Clinics |
122 |
| Beds |
1,700 |
| Physcians |
850 |
| Nurses |
2,000 |
| Patients per year |
±1,100,000 |
| Emergency Cases |
±200,000 |
| Babies Born per year |
± 6,054 |
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