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Sheba Medical Center

Israel, Ramat Gan
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Sheba Medical Center (also Tel HaShomer Hospital) is the main research and educational center in Israel, and the largest medical complex in the country. Founded in 1948 on the basis of an American military hospital, today it is the most modern medical center. 187 Sheba doctors are ranked to be the best doctors of Israel in 30% of disciplines (Forbes rating 2019).

Annually medical center treats 1.6 million outpatients and hospitalizes 430 thousand people. Sheba performs the largest number of surgical operations in Israel — 50 thousand a year (200 daily). In 2013, the hospital was the first in Israel to be accredited by the JCI World Commission. In 2019, it became the No. 1 clinic in Israel, and in 2020 Newsweek magazine (USA) ranked it as the 9th-best hospital in the world.

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    Services provided by the clinic Sheba Medical Center

    Accommodation
    • Accommodation for an accompanying person
    • Assistance with booking a hotel near the clinic
    • Day hospital
    • Hospital for in-patients
    Meeting and escorting
    • Airport meeting and transfer
    • Personal support at all stages of your stay at the clinic
    • Resolving transport issues
    • Translation services
    Documents and visa support
    • Consultations on visa applications
    • Translation of medical documents
    Organization of treatment with MedTour
    • Full support from a coordinating physician
    • Online consultation with a doctor before traveling
    • Quick resolution of all issues that arise
    • Support at all stages of treatment
    Additional clinic services
    • Individual approach to treatment methods
    • Recovery and rehabilitation program
    • Second medical opinion on complex cases
    • The ability to remotely monitor the patient's condition after treatment
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    Location Sheba Medical Center
    Derech Sheba 2, Ramat Gan

    Frequently Asked Questions

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    About Sheba

    The medical town covers an area of 600 thousand m2 (85 football fields) in the suburbs of Tel Aviv — Ramat Gan. Sheba Medical Center consists of 160 hospitals, the biggest of them are:

    • Oncology: cancer research and treatment center, radiation oncology department, institute of immune oncology, and pancreatic cancer center;
    • Institute of Heart and Blood Circulation: Arrhythmia Center, Cardiology Hospital, Cardiac Surgery Unit, and Congenital Heart Disease Treatment Center;
    • Safra Children’s Hospital;
    • The world’s biggest Rehabilitation Hospital;
    • Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology.

    1,700 people can be treated in the clinic at the same time — 2,740 nurses and 1,425 doctors are assigned to them. Thus, each patient is given full attention.
    Sheba center, named after Chaim Sheba, has the largest medical university and the main research institute in Israel. The annual budget of the hospital is more than $500 million — it helps to develop new medicines and regularly update medical equipment.

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    Why patients choose oncology department in Sheba

    Sheba Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center (America’s best cancer clinic in 2020 — U.S. News) has been officially working together since 2011. They exchange protocols and the latest developments of cancer treatment, giving the patients access to the most advanced cancer immune and gene therapy drugs, as well as alternative non-surgical methods for removing tumors: gamma knife, cyberknife, nano knife, ultrasonic scalpel, cryo-radio, and chemo-ablation, medical laser. This is one of the few places in the world where cancer is treated with its own genetically modified immune cells — CAR-T therapy.

    Dr. Raanan Berger is Director of the Institute of Oncology at the Sheba Medical Center: as an oncologist and radiotherapist he is practicing for more than 20 years. He graduated from the medical faculty of Tel Aviv University, then did a doctorate at the Harvard University Cancer Institute. Dr. Berger also is a member of the European and American Society of Clinical Oncology (ESMO and ASCO).

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    Forbes ranked 8 doctors of Sheba clinic to be the best oncologists in Israel
    • Dr. Ronnie Shapira-Frommer — physician and gynecological malignancies expert
    • Dr. Raanan Berger — onco-urologist and prostate cancer expert
    • Dr. Iris Gluck — radiation oncology expert
    • Dr. Einat Shaham-Shmueli — gastrointestinal tumors expert
    • Prof. Bella Kaufman — a leading breast cancer researcher and the deputy chief of the Cancer Treatment Center
    • Zvi Symon — radiotherapy and brachytherapy expert
    • Dr. Amir Onn — pulmonologist and lung cancer expert
    • Dr. Yair Bar — thoracic oncologist and molecular biology, cytology and genetics of cancerous tumors expert

    The cancer treatment center is divided into specialized departments in the treatment of cancer of certain organs, so doctors are well versed in choosing the best treatment tactics for each type of cancer.

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    What are the main oncological diseases Sheba center treats
    • lung cancer
    • breast cancer
    • prostate cancer
    • stomach cancer
    • brain cancer
    • melanoma
    • thyroid cancer
    • cervical cancer
    • all kinds of sarcomas
    • lymphomas and leukemia
    • pediatric oncology and neuroblastomas
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    Why is Sheba Heart Center so popular among foreign patients

    The treatment of cardiovascular diseases is one of the main directions of modern medicine, therefore Sheba opened a separate heart center named after Olga and Lev Leviev.
    It includes 2 research institutes and 13 medical units. In hybrid operating rooms (diagnostic CT, MRI, and PET-CT equipment located inside the operating room), surgeries are performed without cardiac arrest and chest incisions.

    7 doctors of Sheba clinic are ranked to be the best cardiothoracic surgeons in Israel:

    • Prof. Jacob Lavee — cardiac surgeon and President of the Israel Society of Transplantation
    • Dr. David Mishali — director of the department of pediatric and congenital cardiothoracic surgery
    • Prof. Alain Serraf — chairman of the Edmond J. Safra International Congenital Heart Center in Sheba
    • Dr. Boris Orlov — head of the heart valve reconstruction center
    • Dr. Leonid Sternik — cardiac and chest surgeon and age-related heart diseases expert
    • Prof. Ehud Raanani — an expert in aortic surgery
    • Prof. Alon Ben-Nun — head of the thoracic surgery department, expert in combined surgeries on the lungs, esophagus, and heart
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    Why 1,200 patients annually choose neurosurgery in Sheba

    Sheba Medical Center has one of the largest centers of neurosurgery in the world, which consists of 8 divisions:

    • Benign Tumor Neurosurgery
    • Department of Neurosurgery for Pituitary Tumors
    • Neuro-oncology
    • Department of Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
    • Pediatric Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery
    • Spinal neurosurgery
    • Department of Stereotactic, Functional and Radiosurgery of the Brain
      Department of Neurosurgical Rehabilitation

    Operating rooms are equipped with high-definition electron microscopes, virtual neuronavigation, endoscopes, and equipment for functional neurosurgery. The latest model Cyber-Knife M6 is installed here, and for the operation on deep brain stimulation, the latest stimulants are used: Medtronic, Abbott, and Boston. This equipment helps to perform surgery even in vital areas of the brain without the risk of complications and infections.

    4 doctors of Sheba Medical Center are ranked to be the best neurosurgeons in Israel:

    • Dr. Zvi Cohen — leading neurosurgeon, director of the Oncological Neurosurgery Unit. He specializes in neurosurgery, benign and malignant brain tumors, and pituitary adenomas.
    • Dr. Nahshon Knoller — director of the Spine Surgery Unit
    • Dr. Mati Bakon — head of the neuro-interventional service, aneurysms and other vascular pathologies expert
    • Dr. Roberto Spiegelmann — head of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Unit, an expert in surgery for Parkinson’s disease, torsion dystonia, epilepsy, and inoperable tumors.
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    Advantages of Sheba Rehabilitation Hospital

    Rehabilitation Hospital of Sheba Medical Center is one of the largest in the world and famous for its specialized institutes and departments:

    • Spinal Cord Injury Institute
    • Department of Neurological Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injuries
    • Department of Orthopedic Rehabilitation and Institute of Walking
    • Virtual Reality (VR) Training Facility and Speech Therapy Institute
    • Center for breathing and nutrition rehabilitation

    They work together to restore the lost physical and mental functions of patients. Therefore, 6,200 patients annually choose rehabilitation at the Sheba Medical Center.

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    How to get to Sheba Medical Center and where to stay

    Chaim Sheba Tel HaShomer Hospital is 20 km from Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv Main Airport). A car ride takes about 20 minutes. There are 2 hotels in the clinic, the average cost of a double room with breakfast is $120 per day.

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    Почему 6 тыс. 200 человек в год выбирают реабилитацию в Шибера

    Реабилитационная клиника центра Шиба — крупнейшая в мире. Её особенность — множество узкоспециализированных институтов и отделений, таких как:

    • институт повреждений спинного мозг,
    • отделение неврологической реабилитации и реабилитации черепно-мозговых травм,
    • отделение ортопедической реабилитации и институт ходьбы,
    • учебный центр виртуальной реальности и отделение реабилитации речи,
    • центр реабилитации дыхания и питания.

    Они совместно работают над восстановлением утраченных физических и психических функций пациентов, что обеспечивает лучший результат.

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    Как сюда добраться и сколько стоит проживание

    Больница Тель-Хашомер имени Хаима Шиба находится в 20 км от главного аэропорта Бен-Гурион (главный аэропорт Тель-Авива). Поездка на авто занимает около 20 минут. На территории клиники находятся 2 гостиницы, средняя стоимость двухместного номера в завтраком — 120$ в сутки.

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