The Acute Care Hospital has six divisions:
Division of Internal Medicine
The Division of Internal Medicine oversees the management and academic activities of all medical departments, including all medical subspecialties at the Sheba Medical Center. The hospital is middle-sized hospital and offers both inpatient and outpatient services.
The inpatient facilities include 13 departments with 330 beds servicing over 27,000 patients yearly. In addition to our 72 day beds, our outpatient facilities service 345,000 visits annually. All six internal medicine departments and many of the institutes are affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Many of the senior physicians have academic degrees in addition to medical degrees.
The operations include:
- Six internal medicine departments with intensive care facilities:
Division of Surgery
The Division of Surgery includes 18 surgical departments with 362 beds. The surgical staff includes 280 surgeons and 500 nurses. There are 33 operating tables that are divided up as follows: 13 in the main operating block (to be expanded soon to 16), 9 in Day Surgery, 3 in Ophthalmology, 5 in Maxillo-Facial Surgery, and 3 at the Center of Advanced Technologies.
The surgeons are actively involved in both basic and clinical research. They have published more than 100 scientific articles in many of the world’s most prestigious medical journals.
The Division of Surgery is one of the preeminent surgical training facilities in Israel. Students from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University do their clinical clerkships in our departments. These are fifth and seventh year Israeli medical students, as well as American medical students in their final year.
About 110 residents are trained in all surgical disciplines for periods of four to six and a half years. In addition to Sheba residents, every year we admit about 20 residents, who need to complete their residencies in specific fields, from other hospitals.
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The Obstetrics and Gynecology Division
The Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) at the Sheba Medical Center has been Israel's leading Ob/Gyn center of excellence for four decades. Our mission is to integrate outstanding reproductive science research with cutting edge, high quality, and compassionate clinical care to advance women's reproductive health. We also seek to train the next generation of academic Ob/Gyn physician scientists and provide comprehensive education to visiting physicians from around the world. Equally important, we are committed to developing new reproductive technologies and to advancing cutting edge research in related fields of Perinatology, Gynecology, Onco-Gynecology and Infertility. Discoveries in these areas will permit the development of targeted therapies and prevention strategies.
The Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology includes two Departments of Obstetrics, the Department of High-Risk Pregnancies, the Department of Gynecology, the Department of Onco-Gynecology, a Day-Care Clinic and specialized units, including IVF, Infertility, Urogynecology, and Invasive and Noninvasive Ultrasound. In addition, we manage Outpatient Clinics, an Emergency Room, Operating Theaters and a Delivery Ward. During the last year, the departments performed over 10,000 deliveries and several thousand surgical procedures.
We constitute the largest group of obstetricians and gynecologists in Israel consisting of over 60 senior physicians, as well as over 20 residents and training physicians.
The Sheba Medical Center's Department of Ob/Gyn is affiliated with Sackler Medical School at Tel Aviv University. Medical students from both the Israeli and the American program undergo their clinical rotation in Ob/Gyn at our department.
We have one of the largest academic faculties in Israel with an exceptional group of a dozen professors actively engaged in basic and clinical research. This impressive faculty publishes dozens of publications each year in the most esteemed international scientific journals.
The Department has a proud tradition of academic leadership, excellence in clinical training, innovations in clinical practice and advances in reproductive science research. To maintain its clinical and research leadership position and attract world-class clinical and reproductive science faculty, the Ob/Gyn Department is committed to the following initiatives currently underway:
- Creation of a birthing center allowing the introduction of a modern open-minded delivery ward, which will offer women individual compassionate and responsible state-of-the-art care.
- Establishment of a center for the study of basic sciences in reproductive medicine. The center will have core facilities, individual labs, and strategic alliances with cutting edge research facilities within the Sheba Medical Center and elsewhere. Research will focus on oocyte biology and aging, implantation and placentation, parturition, basic reproductive endocrinology and molecular oncogenesis.
- Development of an Ob/Gyn informatics core program. This program will design and oversee the prospective storage and analysis of data for clinical care, quality assurance, clinical studies and randomized clinical trials.
- Creating subspecialty clinical excellence. We will continue to offer high quality care by world class senior faculty committed to in vitro fertilization, reproductive tract malignancy screening, Urogynecology, and prenatal diagnosis and genetics programs.
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The Division of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
The future of diagnostic imaging relies to a large extent on the current digital revolution affecting all technologically driven disciplines. The Division of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging converges several evolutionary developments to raise the Division to a prominent state of influence in biological physiological and medical research in addition to clinical practice. These dynamic technologies include: Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging, and Spectroscopy, Computed Tomography (CT), Nuclear Medicine (NM), Ultrasonography (US), Digital Radiography (DR), Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and image-guided minimal invasive interventional therapy.
The major challenge in diagnostics today is to converge these evolutionary developments so that medical imaging in biology and physiology can reach its true potential. Complex questions in biology can be resolved by means of imaging as imaging technologies are able to address biologic questions on more fundamental levels and with greater depth.
The Division of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging at the Sheba Medical Center is the largest of its kind in Israel. It is affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
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Laboratory Division
The Laboratory Division at the Sheba Medical Center consists of 35 laboratories, covering a variety of modern disciplines. Seventeen are central laboratories that function independently, providing medical and research services in the fields of Biochemistry, Hematology, Bacteriology, Pathology, Genetics, among others.
The laboratories are equipped with the latest and most advanced automated technology available for performing routine analyses, research programs and clinical trials.
Our laboratories function under strict external and internal quality regulations. The division is now in the process of obtaining authorization for ISO/FDIS 15189, "Quality Management in the Medical Laboratory."
A computerized information system (AutoLab) is assimilated to optimize activities in the division such as quality control and electronic data distribution.
The division employs 350 professionals and 80 researchers. An average of 8,000,000 sample tests of body fluids and tissues are examined each year for about 1,000 different types of tests.
The division includes tissue banks for Sperm, Bone, Bone Marrow, Eye components, Heart Valve Bank and a Cord Blood Bank.
The division provides the following activities at a national level: Central Virology Laboratory, National Center for AIDS, National Tissue Typing Laboratory and the National Phenylketonuria (PKU) Screening Laboratories (functioning since 1964, and screening till September 2003 2,870,000 infants, diagnosing 107 children with PKU).
Eighteen labs are Research & Development oriented, dealing with Oncogenetics, Atherosclerosis, Autoimmune Disease, and Pharmacologic Biochemistry. Our research focuses on innovative diagnostic procedures. Novel methodologies are adopted for exploring morbidity and for tailoring therapy. A branched system of cooperation has been developed between the division and academic institutions to promote these functions.
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