Shamir Medical Center, formerly Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, is a teaching hospital in Be'er Ya'akov, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel.[2]
| Shamir Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Be'er Ya'akov, Israel |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Beds | 891[1] |
| History | |
| Opened | 1918 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.shamir.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in Israel |
History
The Medical Center was named after Asaph the Jew, author of the Oath of Asaph and an early medical text.[3][4] The facility was established in 1918 as a military hospital of the British Army in the closing days of the First World War.[3] It was located adjacent to the sprawling British military base in Tzrifin (Sarafand). After the creation of the State of Israel, it was converted to an Israeli hospital.[3]
The hospital was renamed after the former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in April 2017.
Services
It is one of Israel's largest hospitals, with over 800 beds.[5][6] It serves over 370,000 people in Israel's Central District.[5][6] As a teaching facility, the hospital is part of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.[5] On its grounds are the first and largest Israeli academic nursing school and the oldest Israeli school of physiotherapy.[5]