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NEW YORK, NY — The Hadassah Medical Organization, a major Israeli hospital system, has opened a medical facility in Beit Shemesh, Israel’s fastest-growing city, located 22 miles from Jerusalem. The new site, to be known as Hadassah Beit Shemesh, will bring Hadassah’s sophisticated medical services to the city, whose population is growing nine percent a year and already exceeds 150,000.
The new facility, located in the Migdal HaMayim neighborhood, will relieve Beit Shemesh inhabitants of having to travel out of town to receive specialized medical care.
The services offered will become available in stages, starting with cardiology, pediatric hematology, gastroenterology, gynecological surgery, the treatment of pediatric eating/feeding issues and a pain clinic. The next stage will add children's psychiatry, ophthalmology, nephrology, treatment for respiratory issues and surgery in what will be two operating rooms.
The director of the new branch is Boris Vershitzky, MD, a Hadassah specialist in family medicine and cardiology.
Hadassah Beit Shemesh is the result of a multi-year partnership between the Beit Shemesh Municipality, headed by Mayor Aliza Bloch, and the Hadassah Medical Organization, led by Director General Dr. Yoram Weiss and Dalia Itzik, Chair of the Board of Directors and former Speaker of the Knesset, Israel’s national legislature.
At the official opening on June 14, Israel’s Minister of Health, Moshe Arbel, and other dignitaries joined Weiss, Itzik and Rhoda Smolow, National President of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America. The American group’s financial support helped make Hadassah Beit Shemesh possible.
"The opening of Hadassah Beit Shemesh is part of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s vision to provide services where people live," said Weiss. "We want to enable residents of Beit Shemesh and the surrounding areas to easily benefit from Hadassah’s high-quality care."
Said Smolow, "Just as the women of Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, began their work in pre-state Israel by meeting the community’s medical needs, Hadassah Beit Shemesh, helped by our almost 300,000 members in the US, will bring expert medical care to the city’s growing population."
ABOUT THE HADASSAH MEDICAL ORGANIZATION:
For more than a century, the Hadassah Medical Organization, a leading hospital system in and around Jerusalem, has set the standard for excellence in medical care and research in Israel. The experience and ingenuity of Hadassah’s doctors and scientists have yielded ideas with vast potential in all areas of medicine, including therapeutics, diagnostic medical devices and digital health. In 2023, Newsweek named Hadassah a world leader in oncology, the only medical center in Israel to receive that honor, and one of the world’s top hospitals in cardiology and smart technology.