Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital)

Capacity — 1,500 beds.

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

Ichilov Medical Center is the second largest centre in Israel, and perhaps the most authoritative. This is a comfortable, versatile and fitted up with advanced equipment for all types of diagnostics and methods of treatment centre in the Middle East.

The total area of the medical complex is 21 hectares, and the hospital has more than 5,000 employees. These are 1,300 doctors (including 700 narrow specialists and 75 professors). The clinic's total capacity is 1,500. There are 60 medical departments in all areas of medicine. Each year, the medical centre provides assistance to more than 100,000 patients, more than 30,000 surgeries are performed, and about 10,000 children are born here. In the outpatient departments of the centre, more than 1,000,000 patients are admitted per year.

The highest level of qualifications of all medical personnel, enormous diagnostic capabilities and excellent results of treatment in Israel attract patients from all over the world to the Sourasky Medical Center. The list of services of the centre is extremely wide, and covers all medical specialties and areas — from cosmetology to transplantology. The cardiological clinic of Sourasky Medical Center has received worldwide fame for its active use of invasive cardiology (stenting, angioplasty and other manipulations).

World-renowned specialists work at the Sourasky Center — Prof. Dr. med. Moshe Inbar (leading Oncologist in Israel), Prof. Dr. med. Zvi Ram (leading specialist in Neurosurgery of the Brain), Prof. Dr. med. Josef Klausner (leading Surgeon of Abdominal Operations) , Dr. Lidar (leading Spinal Neurosurgery Specialist) and many others.

Advantages of treatment in the Ichilov Medical Center

• World-renowned specialists of medicine;
• A unique laboratory that performs all types of analyses;
• Unique intraoperative examination techniques;
• Advanced treatment methods: minimally invasive and laparoscopic techniques, robotic surgery;
• The latest equipment and the constant introduction of innovative technologies
• Application of all the latest technological advances, in particular neuronavigators;

The use of unique equipment, advanced technologies allows for surgical intervention with low-impact methods that exclude undesirable consequences make treatment receive here as effective as possible.

Tel Aviv is surrounded by the greenery of parks and magnificent hotels. The Sourasky Medical Center is located in a vast area of 21 hectares, and includes four main clinics: Ichilov General Clinic, Lys Maternity Center, Ida Sourasky Rehabilitation Clinic, Pediatric clinic "Dana". Also this complex includes the institute of the heart "Sami Ofer".

The departments of Tel Aviv State University are based in the Sourasky Medical Center, and there are teaching and research centres located here. Ichilov Hospital is the clinical base of the medical faculty of the Tel Aviv University.

Areas of activity

In the Medical Center Sourasky, there are more than 60 clinical departments in all areas of medicine. The centre has a unique laboratory — all analyses and research that exist in the world (including genetic, molecular, radioisotope) are performed here. The latest equipment and the constant introduction of innovative technologies make the centre a prestigious healthcare institution in Israel. In recent years, the medical centre has been modernised, and as a result of it, a 13-story surgical hospitalisation building was opened. All surgical departments of the centre, including the oncological one, are based here. The roof is equipped with a helipad for receiving emergency patients.

Cancer Center

The oncology centre also has international recognition; for cancer patients, all the newest methods of cancer treatment are used — from unique surgical interventions and radiation therapy to the use of anti-cancer vaccines and non-surgical treatments. Especially the attention of foreign experts is attracted by the achievements of oncologists in the treatment of breast cancer. The assets of the cancer centre include unique interventions for heart cancer and innovative non-invasive techniques for skin cancer. The Sourasky Medical Center has a unique orthopedic oncology department that deals with the problem of malignant neoplasms of the musculoskeletal system.

Surgery at MC Ichilov

Surgical departments in the Medical Centre of Sourasky are considered the best in Israel. It widely uses minimally invasive and laparoscopic techniques, as well as robotic surgery. Neurosurgery here is at the highest level as well — the specialists successfully apply the latest technical advances, such as neuronavigators, unique intraoperative examination techniques and others.

Obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics

The Center for Maternity is the largest institution in Israel dealing with artificial insemination. Here the most complex techniques for micromanipulation technology of egg fertilization are applied, control of the development of the embryo at all stages and storage of eggs and sperm for subsequent extracorporeal fertilisation are performed.

The Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology provides a full range of services, from artificial insemination to obstetrics, as well as the treatment of all types of diseases of the female reproductive system, including oncology.

Pediatric Clinic Dana is a multidisciplinary, best known for advanced hematology department, where bone marrow transplantation is performed, as well as for its neurosurgical achievements: almost 95% of all operations of this area in children are performed here.