Hadassah Medical Center (
Hebrew: מרכז רפואי הדסה) includes two
University hospitals at
Ein Kerem and
Mount Scopus in
Jerusalem,
Israel, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated with the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and
outpatient clinics at Bikur Holim Hospital and the
Malha Technology Centre, as well as in
Tel Aviv. The Center was founded and is partially funded by
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. It also operates a private medical consulting firm as well as a Biotechnology development business.
In 2005, the Center was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize due to its equality in treatment, its ethnic and religious diversity, and its efforts to build bridges to peace.
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A hospital of the same name also exists in
Safed. Hadassah's first hospital, also referred to as "Hadassah Hospital", was founded in
Hebron, but ceased to function after the
1929 Hebron Massacre. The building is now known as
Beit Hadassah, and is populated by
Israeli settlers there.
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Mount Scopus campus
The
cornerstone for the Hadassah hospital on
Mount Scopus was laid in 1934. After five years of construction, the complex, designed by architect
Erich Mendelsohn, opened its doors in 1939.
In March of 1947, the leader of the
Arab Forces in Jerusalem,
Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, threatened to blow up the hospital. He did not carry this threat through, but attacks were carried out on traffic to and from the complex. On the 13th of April, 1948, an armoured convoy of doctors, nurses, medical students, and other staff made its way to the hospital. The group was ambushed, and 77 of its members were killed in what has become known as the
Hadassah medical convoy massacre. After that harsh blow to its functional capability and morale, the hospital wound down operations until it was eventually closed. In the 1949 armistice with
Jordan, Mount Scopus became a demilitarized
enclave, and the facility was ultimately reopened in
Ein Kerem, in Israeli controlled Jerusalem.
As a result of the 1967
Six-Day War Jerusalem was reunited, and after a period of extensive renovation, Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus was reopened in 1975. With over 300 beds and 30 departments and clinics, the hospital is the best equipped serving the northern and eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, a fact attested to by the large percentage of patients coming from the Arab neighbourhoods of
East Jerusalem.
Ein Kerem campus
For 13 years, medical care was provided out of temporary sites throughout the city after access was lost to the Mount Scopus campus. In 1961, construction of a large and modern medical complex was completed adjacent to
Ein Karem, a garden suburb in south-western Jerusalem. The Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America again assisted with funding, and the somewhat out-of-the-way location was chosen in part because an appropriate site was difficult to obtain in the city-center, and Hadassah owned a large plot in Ein Kerem. Today the hospital accommodates 700 beds. It contains 130 departments and clinics in 22 different buildings. The hospital complex also includes the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health, and pharmacology, as well as many modern research laboratories. It is currently the largest and most modern hospital in Jerusalem, and provides many specialized services in complement to those offered on Mount Scopus.
The campus
synagogue is famous for its
stained glass windows depicting the
twelve tribes of Israel, created and donated in
1960 by
Marc Chagall.
Hadassah's director is Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef. Prominent physicians include Dr.
Avraham Rivkind, founder and director of the hospital's trauma center, Dr. Ahmed Eid, head of the liver and kidney transplant unit, and
Knesset Member Dr.
Arie Eldad, head of the department of plastic surgery and burns unit and American Burns Treatment Association
Evans Award recipient.
In March 2007 Jewish American billionaire William Davidson donated $75 million dollars to the hospital.
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References
Bibliography
- Encyclopedia Americana (2003), ISBN 0-7172-0136-8
- Jerusalem Diarist: Ward of the State," New Republic'' April 10, 2006.
- O Jerusalem by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
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