Location Tzrifin, Israel Website [1] Address Tzrifin, 70300, Israel Founded 1918 | Hospital type Teaching Lists Hospitals in Israel Phone +972 8-977-9999 Number of beds 800 | |
Affiliated university Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine Similar Sheba Medical Center, Wolfson Medical Center, Kaplan Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital, Schneider Children's Medical | ||
Assaf harofeh medical center israel
Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, also known as Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, is a hospital located on 60 acres (24 ha), 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Assaf harofeh medical center
History
The Medical Center is named after Asaph the Jew, author of the Oath of Asaph and an early medical text. The facility was establihed in 1918 as a military hospital of the British Army in the closing days of the First World War. After the creation of the State of Israel, it was converted to an Israeli hospital.
In July 2008, Israeli Olympic fencer Delila Hatuel underwent treatment in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber at the hospital to speed healing from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. She was able to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing the following month.
Services
It is one of Israel's largest hospitals, with 800 beds. It serves over 370,000 people in Central Israel. As a teaching facility, the hospital is part of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. On its grounds are the first and largest Israeli academic nursing school and the oldest Israeli school of physiotherapy.