Sheba Medical Center — Sheba Tel Hashomer

Capacity — 1,700 beds.

Specialisations: anesthesiology, gastroenterology, visceral surgery, gynecology, neurology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, cardiology, dermatology, diabetology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, psychiatry, oncology, rheumatology, traumatology, urology, pulmonology.

Sheba Medical Center is a specialised national medical clinic of Israel with competence in many areas. It is the largest comprehensive medical centre in the Middle East, known for its care and advanced medicine. It is also a major scientific and medical centre that collaborates with the international representatives of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to develop new drugs, treatment methods and technologies, as well as being the world's largest centre for medical education.

Today, the Sheba Medical Center unites six main institutions:

• extensive medical research complex
• medical education academic campus
• emergency hospital
• children's hospital
• Women's Hospital
• Israel's main rehabilitation hospital

Sheba Medical Center, which is a university training hospital (part of the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University) and a specialized medical centre, uniquely combines the largest Israeli emergency hospital and national rehabilitation hospital. The clinic combines the best achievements of Israel in science and medicine in the field of high technologies with traditional medical services, including the best nursing faculties and outstanding care for the elderly.

About 6,000 medical professionals, committed to the highest standards of medical diagnostics and personal medical care, provide nearly 4,000,000 procedures and medical tests to more than 1,000,000 patients each year at the Sheba Medical Center.

Such a number of patients is justified, even considering that Israel's citizens make up only 64% of this number. Patients from all over the world come here, because all medical staff here have a high level of empathy and compassion, which allows them to perceive the patient's goals as their own and helps them to achieve. It works as if the patient is the only one in the practice.

Of course, just a desire to help is not enough. In order to really help one needs to have enough medical knowledge, experience and the necessary equipment to implement the most advanced treatment programs. The doctors of the Sheba Medical Center have all of these as they are assisted by researchers of the Sheba Medical Faculty. Here, the latest equipment and innovative methods help thousands of people to return to normal life. The technologies and approaches developed here are used to help patients all over the world, and only proven medications and methods are used in practice. To maintain this level of medical care, tens of millions of dollars are invested annually in the development of a research centre and are constantly in touch with the world leaders in each branch of medicine. This is innovative and personalised medicine internationally.

In 2003, Sheba Medical Center wondered: "How to raise world standards of health care at the expense of our own?" For more than a decade now, they have been using a unique model of training specialists, which they borrowed from the military pilots of Israel and the USA. Digital technologists, robotic simulators and specific training protocols for doctors were the answer. Today, the centre trains doctors all over the world, first and foremost Israeli doctors. The Israeli National Center for Medical Modelling today has already reduced the number of medical errors in 24 clinics in Israel and Europe by 38%.

You can not belittle the values of drugs in the treatment of most pathologies. Being in constant contact with the patients of hospitals, clinicians and pharmacological researchers annually produce from 4 to 8 drugs for the treatment of pathologies that were previously considered incurable or not controllable.