Meir Hospital

Meir Hospital
Meir Medical Center

Meir Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי מאיר‎, Merkaz Refu'i Me'ir) is a hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel. It is the seventh largest hospital complex in the country.[1]

Meir Hospital serves the diverse ethnic communities of the eastern highly-populated Sharon plain, including Israeli Arab patients from the Triangle towns and villages. The hospital is named after Dr. Josef Meir (1890–1955), the first head of the General Sick Fund and director of the ministry of health of pre-state Israel. Meir was a strong opponent of the elitist private health care then prevailing and stated that medicine should be organized as an equal public service aimed at improving health levels of the population at large.[2] Today, when Meir Hospital medical staff is called upon to save life, it does not discriminate between religion, race or sex, admitting patients from cross border Palestinian Authority city of Qalqilyah.[3]

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History

The medical facility in Kfar Saba was opened to the public on July 15, 1956, as a hospital for Tuberculosis and diseases of the respiratory system.[2] Later in 1962, Meir was turned into a general hospital and is now part of the Sapir Medical Center.[4]

Services

Services

Meir Hospital teaching departments are affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, while laboratories are affiliated to Bar Ilan University.[5] Meir Medical Center specializes in the treatment of pulmonary diseases and spinal surgery and is accredited under the JCI. It is the base hospital for the Israeli Olympic team.[6]

Medical Center Meir provides

  • 717 beds for hospitalization
  • 60 seats in the daily clinic
  • 57 seats for admission to hospital births
  • 28 sites to undergo dialysis
  • 122 clinics[7]

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Coordinates: 32°10′54.94″N 34°53′45.06″E / 32.1819278°N 34.89585°E / 32.1819278; 34.89585


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