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Bnai Zion Medical Center
Posted by admin in Bnei, Environmental, Health, family on September 14th, 2009
Posted by Moishe Alexander
PROJECT MISSION
Eventually with the financial support of Bnai Zion, the hospital was renamed the Bnai Zion Medical Center in 1988. The hospital has a long history of service to the people of Israel. In its early days, it was known primarily as a facility for the treatment of children with developmental disorders. In 1948, during the War of Independence, it was the only medical facility in Haifa available to treat the wounded. It met a desperate, emergency situation head-on; injured soldiers and civilians were accommodated in tents and makeshift huts on hospital grounds and at the Technion.
In 1982, Bnai Zion Foundation presented an initial contribution to the hospital, which enabled the opening of its new Emergency Room and made a commitment to raise the funds needed to complete the West Wing Project. In 1988, recognizing its $5 million contribution, and in honor of Bnai Zion’s 80th anniversary, the hospital was renamed the Bnai Zion Medical Center.
The hospital is affiliated with the B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Israel’s Institute of Technology) and serves as a teaching hospital for its students. Many of the hospital’s department heads and senior physicians are on the faculty of the Technion and are associated with its varied and wide-ranging medical research activities.
COMMUNITY SERVED OVER THE YEARS
The Bnai Zion Medical Center, located on Mt. Carmel in Haifa was voted leading Medical facility, offering high-quality health care in Northern Israel. It expanded to a 450-bed general hospital facility, dedicated to meeting the needs of a growing population that reaches from Haifa to the neighboring villages throughout the North.
The hospital was in the forefront of treatment for frontline victims of the recent war with Hezbollah and other terrorist bombings.
BNAI ZION’S IMPACT
A recent survey conducted by the Macabi Health Insurance Company rated the Bnai Zion Medical Center well above the national average. Patients have praised the medical staff, their professionalism, the admission procedures and efforts to relieve pain, and consider the Bnai Zion Medical Center as an outstanding hospital.
The hospital has been presented with the most prestigious Israeli award given to a hospital in Israel: The Bnai Zion Medical Center has been voted the number one hospital of choice in North Israel for eight consecutive years. Its doctors are known worldwide for the development of groundbreaking treatments and techniques. To meet the needs of all Israelis, the Medical Center has established the following specialized departments:
* Gynecology and Obstetrics
* Pediatrics
* Neurology
* Otolaryngology
* Neonatal and Premature Unit
* Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
* Orthopedics
* Internal Medicine Specialties (including Metabolic, Gastrointestinal, Endocrine Disorders and Cardiac & Liver Disease)
* Ophthalmology
* Childhood Development Center
* Urology
Construction of the Chais Building for child development was completed in September 2005. The Child Development Center was established in 1976 as the only program of its kind in Haifa and northern Israel. Today it is recognized as the region’s leading center for diagnosis and treatment of young children from infancy to six who have neurological-developmental challenges.
The Center provides consultation, assessment and ongiong treatment for a range of neuro-developmental problems: for children with genetic syndromes, autism, cerebral palsy, language and learning disorders, premature babies and others. This multidisciplinary family-oriented program places the family and the child at the focus of the treatment. More than 700 children, both Jewish and Arab, from all over northern Israel are treated here every year.
Ofarim is part of the Child Development Center. It is the only diagnostic, developmental service for blind and visually impaired children in northern Israel. The unit is committed to appropriate developmental treatment beginning in infancy and the staff strongly believes that early treatment can make all the difference. The program includes rehabilitation daycare for blind and visually impaired infants up to age three. Children receive therapy and paramedical treatments along with typical kindergarten activities, which is the best rehabilitative and educational option for these infants.
The hospital recently completed its new Neonatology Unit. This is the only protected neonatology department in Israel.
The Maternity Department was recently renovated as well.
CURRENT EFFORTS
The hospital is working toward building reinforced units for about 250 patients and staff that will protect against direct rocket attacks. In 2008 construction will begin to be able to convert an underground parking lot into an emergency room with one hundred beds to treat incoming wounded in the event of an emergency.
The hospital is in the process of renovating the Gastroenterology Unit.
PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
To finish construction of the Pediatric Department and add a pediatric emergency room to it, to upgrade the Admissions Office, to build a new Otolaryngology Department and to build a new Urology Department are just some of the priorities of the moment.
AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Summer 2007 – Award for Best Hospital Food
Bnai Zion Medical Center won first prize for the best healthy gourmet meal in a competition with fifteen hospitals from all over Israel. The competition took place at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon and the panel of judges included a famous author of cookbooks, the minister of Health, the chairperson of the union of chefs, special dieticians and senior chefs. The award-winning meal was prepared with minimal fats and salt and consisted of chicken breast stuffed with antipasto, fresh beetroot salad, sweet potatoes and baked zucchini. It was topped off by a special dessert made of dough in the shape of a basket, filled with fresh fruit and syrup made of tahini (known to be iron-rich) and honey.
Chef Naor Aschenazi heads up the very capable and dedicated food preparation team at the Medical Center.
August 2007 – Award for Excellence
The Bnai Zion Medical Center won an award for excellence in the unique activity of its Multidisciplinary Center for Sexual Abuse and Incest Victims.
The prize was announced at the annual convention of Middle Eastern hospital managers held in Thailand in August. Bnai Zion Medical Center is the only hospital in the world that offers continuous treatment – both in the hospital and in the community – to victims of this abuse on an ongoing basis.
More information about this prestigious award and the activities of this department can be found in the December 2007 Hanukah edition of the Bnai Zion VOICE.
Autumn 2007 – Citation for Courage
Dr. Saab, an intern IN the Ophthalmology Department, received the Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Defense Forces citation last month for his courage in treating soldiers while under fire and rockets during the second Lebanese War. His force was among the first that went into Lebanon, and as a result of the difficult location and many soldiers wounded, they had to ‘open’ a clinic in one of the deserted houses in Lebanon. There he treated soldiers while under enemy fire, while the house was hit, and the soldiers inside were injured. Dr. Saab was injured from slivers in his face, eyes and limbs. Despite these injuries he insisted on continuing to treat other soldiers. A day later he and his staff were evacuated back to Israel.
The hospital is very proud to have Dr. Saab on staff.
Autumn 2007 – Research Conclusion
A recent new survey conducted at the hospital has proven that receiving an epidural at the beginning of delivery doesn’t cause any problems. Based upon this result, women who want an epidural can get it right away. As a result of this research, other hospitals in Israel and abroad have accepted this conclusion and act accordingly.
This research was recently published in the American Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal.
Jewish Community and Charity
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Cuba, Environmental, Health, Hockey, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, Youth, family on June 18th, 2009
The Aleph Institute is just about the only national not-for-profit organization working to provide faith-based programming, religious freedom advocacy and social services for tens of thousands of Jewish men and women in “institutional environments” (prison, military, nursing homes) and their families at home. Aleph’s Center for Halacha and American Law (CHAL) develops unique educational materials on Torah ethics and values, implements them in classroom curriculums and distributes them to schools and to the general public.
The American Jewish Committee has the mission to safeguard the welfare and security of Jews in the United States, in Israel, and throughout the world and to enhance the quality of American Jewish life by helping to ensure Jewish continuity and deepen ties between American and Israeli Jews.
American Red Magen David for Israel (ARMDI) is the only authorized fundraising organization in the United States for Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent to a Red Cross Society. ARMDI supports the MDA Emergency Medical, Ambulance Blood and Disaster Services.
The American Technion Society (ATS) supports the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel’s premier university, to ensure the Technion’s continued excellence and achievement. The future of a secure and economically independent Israel is in high technology, and the future of high technology in Israel is at the Technion.
For more than 88 years, the Anti-Defamation League has been combating anti-Semitism and bigotry of all kinds. Their web site chronicles the history and current status of many issues in this ongoing battle.
Since 1843 B’nai B’rith, “Children of the Covenant,” has carried forward the idealistic mission: uniting Jews in service to their community and the world. B’nai B’rith is the world’s largest Jewish human rights, community action and humanitarian organization.
The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations is composed of independent organizations whose unity of purpose is a secular expression of our Jewish heritage, with particular emphasis on the cultural and ethical precepts of Jewish learning.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations represents 52 national Jewish organizations from across the political and religious spectrum. The Conference provides a forum for deliberations of American Jewish leadership and a central address for key American, Israeli and other world leaders to consult on issues of critical concern to the Jewish community.
Giving Wisely, sponsored by the School of Social Work of the Hebrew University, is the Internet Directory of Israeli nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, developed to help donors to evaluate and make educated decisions (or even know which organizations are legal) so that they can choose those that are closest to their own areas of interest.
Hadassah the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer women’s organization, whose members are motivated and inspired to strengthen their partnership with Israel, ensure Jewish continuity, and realize their potential as a dynamic force in American society. In Israel, Hadassah initiates and supports pace-setting health care, education and youth institutions, and land development to meet the country’s changing needs. In the United States, Hadassah enhances the quality of American and Jewish life through its education and Zionist youth programs, promotes health awareness, and provides personal enrichment and growth for its members.
Hadassah Kaddish is a program under which your donation to Hadassah ensures that the ancient Kaddish prayer will be recited each year beneath the Chagall windows at Hadassah Hospital in Jeruslaem.
JCC Association of North America is the leadership network of, and central agency for the Jewish Community Center Movement. It is comprised of more than 275 JCCs, YM-YWHAs and camps in the US and Canada, annually serving more than one million members and an additional million non-member users.
Jewish Family & Life (JFL), a fast-growing pluralistic entrepreneurial non-profit organization, is the world’s leading publisher of original Jewish content online. Their on-line presence includes:
- JewishFamily.com
- GenerationJ.com
- SocialAction.com
- JVibe.com
- MzVibe.com
- JewishSports.com
- JewZ.com
- JBooks.com
Jewish Deleware is a fine example of a website devoted to a regional Jewish community.
The first fifty years of the Jewish National Fund were spent purchasing the land that would become the State of Israel. Now after another fifty years spent developing the land for the people, and with the continued assistance of supporters from around the world, JNF has a vital role in conserving and protecting the ecology of the land for now and the future. The JNF web site offers a lot of ways to help Israel, including planting trees in Israel and helping Israeli victims of terrorism.
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national, nonprofit agency which allocates donations from the Jewish community to nonprofit organizations providing food, help and hope to hungry people of all faiths and backgrounds.
NAVAH Organization provides financial and social support to victims of terrorism in Israel. NAVAH receives donations that are used to assemble care packages to be delivered by groups of volunteers to victims and their families in Israel. Each package contains a loving message from donors and the organization works to facilitate contact between donors and recipients if it is requested. NAVAH also provides direct financial assistance to help victims meet their increased expenses as they recuperate from their injuries.
United Jewish Communities represents 189 Jewish federations, 400 independent communities and 700,000 people across North America, who contribute more than $2 billion every year to help repair the world. The UJC site is a rich source of news and information about Jewish affairs and charitable works.
World ORT is one of the largest non-governmental education and training organisations in the world, with past and present activities in over 100 countries. A non-profit, non-political organisation, ORT’s objective is to meet the educational and vocational requirements of diverse students throughout the world. Currently, ORT educates or trains more than 290,000 students annually, through its network of programmes, training centres and schools.
http://middleeastfacts.com/links/links_jewish_charity.php
The report reviewed by Moishe Alexander, CFC CEO
Moishe Alexander donated to Chabad at Western
Posted by admin in Aid Services, Environmental, Health, Israel, School, Torah, Uncategorized, Youth, family on May 4th, 2009
Chabad House is a unique and vibrant center, providing a home away from home for Jewish students and faculty at Western University in London Ontario as well as to any man, woman or youngster who walks through it’s doors. It’s staff and volunteer workers are pioneers in the most literal sense, treading a path and showing the way to bring the light of Torah and Jewish tradition to all Jews.
Acceptance of every Jew, regardless of their level of religious commitment or practice, has become a trademark of Chabad. Blending traditional values with modern day techniques, we have been successful in reaching even the most alienated person, helping them to appreciate their roots and proudly identify with their Judaism.
The Chabad House’s doors at Western will always be open to every single Jew and human being, regardless of their affiliation and background.