2. Contact: The Obstetrics and Gynecology Division
The Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Soroka Medical Center is one of
Dr. Gerry Showstack the best and most advanced in Israel, providing Ob/Gyn healthcare and medical
Resource Development services to the entire Negev, covering over 60% of Israel. The Division's staff
Tel: 972-8-646-7435, Mobile: 972-54-220-2608 is comprised of 50 physicians and 195 nurses who work round the clock, doing
email: shows1@netvision.net.il their utmost to nurture Israel's future.
• Every year 13,500 infants are born in Soroka's Ob/Gyn Division, more
Soroka Medical Center than at any other hospital in Israel
External Affairs • More than 15,000 women are cared
Tel: 972-8-640-3963, Fax: 972-8-640-3901 for annually at the Gynecology
email: iritbibi@clalit.org.il Emergency Room
• Over 26,000 women come to
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Soroka's Women's Clinics each
P.O Box 184-H Scarsdale, NY 10583 year for diagnosis, counseling
and treatment
Tel: 914-725-9070, Fax: 914-725-9073
email: americanfriends@soroka.org The Ob/Gyn Division treats women
website: www.soroka.org of all ages and backgrounds, spanning
diverse cultures and including new and
veteran immigrants, native-born Israelis,
secular, religious and ultra-Orthodox, Jews and
Bedouin all in a highly professional medical division
whose sense of humanity knows no limits.
In light of its vast experience in obstetrics, the very diverse nature of the
population cared for, and the Division's exceptional senior staff, the Ob/Gyn
Division attracts many skilled young medical school graduates, interns, and
residents. Highly talented young medical professionals join the Division's ranks
and together with the Division's senior staff publish hundreds of academic
studies in the most prestigious professional journals worldwide.
The Division will soon relocate to its new
quarters in the Ob/Gyn Building,
adjacent to the Saban Pediatric
Medical Center. The Saban
Pediatric Center itself is also
housed in a new building
that opened just a year ago
and is the main in-patient
hospitalization facility for the
400,000 children who live in
the Negev.
This new complex will form the
main "healthy" entrance to the hospital,
with important breathing space between
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3. newborns, new mothers, and children and the hospital's internal medicine and a physiotherapist, a social worker and a secretary.
surgery departments and units. The new complex is designed and constructed
according to the highest standards, with special care to take into consideration The Department is accredited by the Scientific Council of the Israel Medical
the needs of the new mothers, newborn infants, children, and other family Association to specialize and offer specialized
members. training in pediatric surgery. It is responsible
for instructing medical students from
The new three-story Ob/Gyn Building will consist of 18,000 square meters Ben-Gurion University, as well as
(approximately 190,000 square feet) and include 25 delivery/birthing students in the Medical School
rooms, two obstetrics wards, a gynecology emergency room and an obstetrics for International Health in
emergency room, a neonatal department and an in-vitro fertility unit. collaboration with Columbia
University Medical Center in
The proposed Women and Children's Surgery Complex will contain four New York. The Department
spacious operating rooms, one of which will be designated for the Department is also involved in teaching
of Pediatric Surgery, located in the adjacent Saban Pediatric Medical Center. pediatric surgery to students in the
School of Nursing and the School
of Emergency Medicine.
The Department of Pediatric Surgery
The Saban Pediatric Medical Center, in
The Department of Pediatric Surgery was established at Soroka Medical Center which the Department of Pediatric Surgery is
thirty years ago. It is one of the largest in Israel, and located, is one of the most impressive and advanced in Israel, uniquely designed
a leader in the field. The Department treats with the comfort and convenience of the children and their families in mind,
infants, children and teens – from birth to offering cheerful surroundings and in-house education facilities and amenities
18 years old. alongside first-rate professional care.
The Department of Pediatric Surgery
specializes in a wide array of
advanced surgical procedures and The Need
methods. It leads in several fields,
The surgeons of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and the Ob/Gyn
which include minimally invasive
Division operate on thousands of hospitalized and outpatient women and
abdominal and thoracic surgery and
children every year, and the number is constantly increasing. And yet,
oncology surgery including removal
the pediatric operations are carried out in the hospital's general surgical
of tumors and insertion of catheters for
complex, far from the Department's pediatric wards. This is of course
chemotherapy.
inefficient for the medical staff of the Department of Pediatric Surgery,
The Department has developed a special pre-operative program to prepare as well as inconvenient for the children and their families at a difficult and already
children for scheduled surgery, including a booklet stressful time.
designed specifically to reduce their fears and
anxieties. The booklet, which all children
receive, describes the procedure, the pre-
op preparation, the surgery itself and
the recovery period in the hospital in a
humorous vein and through the eyes of its
main character, a 12- year-old.
The Pediatric Surgical Department
performs an average of 1,700 surgeries
annually, 25% more than carried out at most
hospitals nationwide. The Department's core staff
consists of four senior physicians, seventeen nurses,
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4. Floor plan of the operating rooms The Project
The proposed designated Ob/Gyn and Pediatric Division operating rooms
will be located in the new Women's Building, adjacent to the Pediatrics
Building. The operating room complex will be state of the art and will include
three operating rooms for the Women's Division and one for the specific use of
the Pediatric Surgical Department.
Costs
The construction of the proposed Women and Children's Operating Rooms
complex (1,080 square meters, 11,620 square feet) will cost US $5,500,000,
including medical equipment and furnishings.
Donation and Donor Recognition
The entire Women and Children's Operating Room complex can be named
by the donor for a gift of $2,500,000, or $750,000 for 1 operating room.
Full and prominent donor recognition will be provided at the Women and
Children's Operating Room complex itself, as well as at the Donors' Wall
of Honor at Soroka Medical Center. In addition, there will be a dignified
public dedication and naming ceremony.
Thank you for considering this opportunity and request
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5. Soroka Medical Center ‫המרכז הרפואי האוניברסיטאי סורוקה‬
POB 151, Beer-Sheva, 84101 ‫ת.ד. 151 באר-שבע‬
84101 Israel 08-640-3963 :‫טל‬
Tel: 972-8-640-3963 08-640-3901 :‫פקס‬
Fax: 972-8-640-3901 email: iritbibi@clalit.org.il
email: iritbibi@clalit.org.il www.soroka.co.il :‫אינטרנט‬
website: www.soroka.co.il
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center
P.O Box 184-H Scarsdale, NY 10583
Tel: 914-725-9070
Fax: 914-725-9073
email: americanfriends@soroka.org
website: www.soroka.org