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Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel

Coordinates: 32°5′17″N 34°52′3″E / 32.08806°N 34.86750°E / 32.08806; 34.86750
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Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Main entrance
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel is located in Israel
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Geography
Location14 Kaplan St. Petah Tikva, Israel, Israel
Coordinates32°5′17″N 34°52′3″E / 32.08806°N 34.86750°E / 32.08806; 34.86750
Services
StandardsJCAHO accreditation
Emergency departmentYes
Beds258
HelipadYes
History
OpenedApril 1992
Links
Websitewww.schneider.org.il
ListsHospitals in Israel

Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, founded in 1992, is a paediatric hospital focused on children's diseases, particularly organ transplantation and cancers. Schneider treats infants, children, teens, and young adults up to age 18 and for some conditions, age 21.

Overview

  • 7 floors
  • 35,000 sq. meters (376,736 sq. feet)
  • 271 beds including 50 for day care
  • 44% critical care and special care beds
  • 1,500 employees
  • 350 Physicians with advanced specialty and subspecialty pediatric training
  • 550 Pediatric Nurses and Nurse Assistants
  • 100 Paramedical Staff (Social Workers, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Dieticians)
  • 6 operating theaters
  • 2 Cardiac Catheterization Labs
  • 3 specially oriented intensive care units
  • The combined skills of 800 health professionals


Annual Activities

  • 275,000 visits and treatments
  • 54,000 visits to the Emergency Medicine Department (ER) - busiest in the country
  • 13,500 admissions, amounting to some 78,000 hospitalization days
  • 8,200 surgeries including 500 cardiac and vascular surgeries and about 220 neurosurgeries
  • 440 dialysis treatments
  • 1,200 catheterizations
  • 60 cochlear implants
  • 40 organ transplantations

Online Pediatricians

  • Digital medical responses after-hours
  • Pediatric medical consultations via telephone and videoconferencing

History

Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel was inaugurated on October 29, 1991, and officially opened to the public in April 1992. [1]



Treatments

National Referral Center

  • Hematology-Oncology
  • Cardiology
  • Endocrinology & Childhood Diabetes
  • Organ and Bone Marrow Transplantation

New Clinical Genetics

  • Diseases and genes discovered
  • Chromosomal microarray
  • Exome sequencing

Else

  • Endoscopic repair of laryngeal cleft in 2.5kg preemie
  • Video capsule endoscopy for children <2 years
  • Artificial pancreas trials outside hospital
  • Joint ancestor gene discovery in CDA-II patients
  • Local anesthesia for meatal stenosis
  • Defibrillator implanted in 4-month-old
  • New genes discovered for mental retardation
  • Open-heart surgery in 800gm preemie
  • Transcatheter artificial valve implant
  • Multiple organ transplant

Academic & Research

  • Two Israel Prize laureates for Medical Research
  • Affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
  • 5 physicians on Medical Management Faculty at Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine (highest percentage per capita of all 16 TAU-affiliated teaching hospitals)
  • 50% staff on Faculty
  • 15% hold title of Professor

Support

Friends of Schneider is a non-profit Friends Association that has been supporting Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel since its foundation. The Association was established to promote the development and advancement of the hospital and works to raise funds for construction, acquisition of medical equipment, research grants, and special projects. [2]


See also

References

  1. ^ "Milestones". Scneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel.
  2. ^ "About". Friends of Schneider.