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Dr. Galit Kaufman: Assuta Ashdod is a 'fortress of care' on Israel’s front line

Assuta Ashdod Public University Hospital CEO Dr. Galit Kaufman blends wartime reality with a call for bold, compassionate leadership in healthcare

Assuta Ashdod Public University Hospital CEO Dr. Galit Kaufman
 View of the Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod.

Four-week-old infant in Ashdod died of respiratory failure, Health Ministry says

Yael Yativ ,CEO of Friends of Assuta Ashdod Public Hospital Associations  Director of Development – Assuta Ashdod Public University Hospital

It wasn’t a miracle. We were prepared: Assuta Ashdod Hospital on Innovation and Humanity in Israel

The late president Chaim Herzog, and the new garden bearing his name at Assuta Ashdod hospital on Sunday

Israeli hospital honors Chaim Herzog after Dublin renames ex-president's park


Israeli medical mission to Ethiopia educates on new forms of surgery

The Assuta Ashdod medical team will help to build a national training program for laparoscopic surgery in Ethiopia

Prof. Kashtan with team ahead of their trip to Ethiopia.

Israeli doctor pushes the frontier of surgery in Ethiopia

Prof. Hanoch Kashtan who recently joined Assuta Ashdod and his team have trained over twenty Ethiopian surgeons and nurses. 

 Prof. Hanoch Kashtan with his first patient at the hospital in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

This drug could stop Ashkenazi women from developing breast cancer 

Dr. Larisa Ryvo now works with Olaparib to prevent breast cancer from occurring or recurring.

 Dr. Ryvo checks her patient at Assuta Ashdod Hospital

Israeli virtual hospital gives health, hope to Palestinians

Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital has launched a new clinic for Arabs living in the territories. Its guiding principle is “we want to bring health to everyone.”

 Prof. Adi Leiba looks into his microscope at Assuta Ashdod Hospital

How to stop a child from experiencing pain during hospitalization

Assuta Ashdod’s pediatric department aims to provide a pain and anxiety free experience for its patients using medical clowns, playing movies, and providing tablets and toys.

 Dr. Noa Rosenfeld-Yehoshua at the pediatric ward in Assuta Ashdod Hospital

Around 6,000 Israelis die yearly of infectious disease. Home hospitals help

For the last five years, Assuta Ashdod has been at the forefront the home hospitalization program in Israel.

 Inbal Amit

Can Israeli lab stop staggering death toll from antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

"Antimicrobial resistance, is like climate change. We need to act now so our children can have a world to live in" says Dr. Nadav Sorek head of Assuta Ashdod Hospital’s infectious disease center.

 Dr. Nadav Sorek, head of Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital’s new emerging infectious disease center and clinical microbiology lab together with lab researchers

Who are Israel's best doctors in each field?

The list contains a total of 378 doctors and, for the first time, includes gynecologists and fertility specialists.

 Female doctor looking at x ray film of patient head injury while working with another doctor at the hospital. Medical healthcare staff and doctor service.

An 'EpiPen' bracelet? Assuta Ashdod develops concept to save lives

A pediatric nurse at Assuta has developed a concept for the first-ever compact epinephrine injection device. She was able to do that via Assuta Ashdod accelerator.

 Sarah Sberro-Cohen, Assuta Ashdod pediatric nurse who developed the compact epinephrine injection device.

Hospital workers must be protected - editorial

Security must be stepped up at hospitals and clinics across Israel. Law-enforcement authorities should use a heavy hand against anyone who acts violently against medical staff.

MEDICAL STAFF at Hadassah-Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem assemble and hold placards, declaring a strike and protesting violence against hospital personnel, May 2022.