Meir Medical Center

Meir Medical Center is one of the largest hospital in Israel. Meir was founded in 1956. Hospital is named after its founder Dr. Josef Mayer. The hospital has ahigh level of professionalism that illustrates by the fact that Meir medical complex was recognized as the best hospital in Israel five times in a row. Meir is a unique complex of medical services. It is characterized by its importance and size. So, today the clinic includes:

• Over 800 beds for hospitalization
• Almost 80 seats in dispensary
• Almost 70 seats for admission to hospital births
• 40 seats to undergo dialysis
• More  than 120 departments and divisions.

Annual indicators of the clinic are:

•  20,000 different surgical procedures for the year
•  6000 deliveries
•  3 200 000 visits to physicians in medical center
•  320,000  hemodialysis

Meir Medical Center has a wide specialization, but in several directions practice and scientific research of hospital are learn in details. The main directions of practice are:

• Nephrology (kidney disease)
• Oncology (cancer)
• Gastroenterology (diseases of the gastrointestinal tract)
• Orthopedics (injuries of the musculoskeletal system)
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
• Spine Surgery
• Radioisotope medicine

Meir Medical Center collaborates with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. The result of this collaboration was the possibility of doctors practice at the hospital and actively participate in research at the university and undergraduate and graduate students to get more practice in this hospital under the supervision of experienced physicians. A high level of medical care and skill of doctors proves that the hospital was elected supervisor of the Olympic Committee of Israel. This means that the best athletes of country receive all the examinations, treatment and prevention in this hospital.This is an important fact, because medicine of Israel has the high level and the recognition of this medical center by leading athletes and functionaries of the Olympic Committee demonstrates a level of exclusivity and medical services in the hospital.

Meir Medical Complex is an example of modern medicine. It must be innovative, timely, comprehensive. All these qualities are owned by this hospital.Many people from the former USSR, even in Europe and other parts of the world prefer to be diagnosed and treated at this center. The doctors from Meir hospital demonstrated that they are able to treat the most serious or exotic diseases. That why medical tourism are increased in this hospital every year.