Bnai Zion Medical Center

PROJECT MISSIONwith its varied and wide-ranging medical research
Eventually with the financial support of Bnai Zion,activities.
the hospital was renamed the Bnai Zion MedicalCOMMUNITY SERVED OVER THE YEARS
Center in 1988. The hospital has a long history ofThe Bnai Zion Medical Center, located on Mt.
service to the people of Israel. In its early days, itCarmel in Haifa was voted leading Medical facility,
was known primarily as a facility for theoffering high-quality health care in Northern Israel.
treatment of children with developmentalIt expanded to a 450-bed general hospital facility,
disorders. In 1948, during the War ofdedicated to meeting the needs of a growing
Independence, it was the only medical facility inpopulation that reaches from Haifa to the
Haifa available to treat the wounded. It met aneighboring villages throughout the North.
desperate, emergency situation head-on; injuredThe hospital was in the forefront of treatment
soldiers and civilians were accommodated in tentsfor frontline victims of the recent war with
and makeshift huts on hospital grounds and at theHezbollah and other terrorist bombings.
Technion.BNAI ZION'S IMPACT
In 1982, Bnai Zion Foundation presented an initialA recent survey conducted by the Macabi Health
contribution to the hospital, which enabled theInsurance Company rated the Bnai Zion Medical
opening of its new Emergency Room and made aCenter well above the national average. Patients
commitment to raise the funds needed tohave praised the medical staff, their
complete the West Wing Project. In 1988,professionalism, the admission procedures and
recognizing its $5 million contribution, and in honorefforts to relieve pain, and consider the Bnai Zion
of Bnai Zion's 80th anniversary, the hospital wasMedical Center as an outstanding hospital.
renamed the Bnai Zion Medical Center.The hospital has been presented with the most
The hospital is affiliated with the B. Rappaportprestigious Israeli award given to a hospital in
Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (Israel'sIsrael: The Bnai Zion Medical Center has been
Institute of Technology) and serves as a teachingvoted the number one hospital of choice in North
hospital for its students.  Many of the hospital'sIsrael for eight consecutive years.  Its doctors
department heads and senior physicians are onare known worldwide for the development of
the faculty of the Technion and are associatedgroundbreaking treatments and techniques.