Hadassah International - Our Mission in Action

Supporting Healing ♦ Teaching ♦ Research

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Hadassah International Supports the

Hadassah Medical Center's Cutting-Edge Care and Research

Everyone loves exciting events!! Hadassah Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, New Zealand, and United Kingdom are famous for hosting major events—whether concerts with prestigious musicians, film and opera premieres, art auctions and viewings, provocative and enlightening seminars, elegant luncheons, or gala dinners. These events not only raise substantial funds for the Hadassah Medical Organization, but also raise awareness among countless numbers of people about Hadassah’s work. In each of our countries spanning five continents, generous individuals contribute funds to support the Medical Center.

Over the past 28 years, Hadassah International supporters have raised almost 100 million dollars for healing, teaching, and research.

Made possible by Hadassah International:

¨ Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, Hadassah’s new inpatient facility, to be dedicated in 2012. 8 Cornerstone (one-million dollar) donors and 50 rooms

¨ Abu Gosh Women’s Health Program, empowering Arab women to fortify their own health

¨ African Ophthalmic Nurses’ Retraining

¨ AIDS Center

¨ Arab-speaking social worker to ease the way for Arab children in Hadassah’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit

¨ Arabs being registered in Hadassah’s Bone Marrow Registry

¨ Arthroscopy Unit

¨ Assistance Publique-les Hôpitaux de Paris collaboration with HMO in gerontology, day care, management, how nurses approach AIDS patients, etc.

¨ Bernice Tannenbaum Playground

¨ Blood Bank

¨ Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

¨ Burns Unit

¨ Cardiac Surveillance Machine

¨ Cardiology Department

¨ Center for Pediatric Genetic &Chronic Diseases

¨ Chronically ill children and those with HIV/AIDS

¨ Hadassah Germany Skin Center and Department of Dermatology

¨ Genetics research and research partnerships between the Hadassah Medical Center and Austrian institutions such as the University Hospital Vienna

¨ HIV/AIDS treatment & research

¨ Intensive Care Unit beds

¨ Judy and Sidney Swartz Center for Emergency Medicine

¨ Laparscopic equipment

¨ Lariboisière - Institut des Vaissaux et du Sang collaboration with HMO

¨ Linear accelerator

¨ Liver Department

¨ LOKOMAT, providing locomotive therapy for the Rehabilitation Unit

¨ Medical Clown to alleviate the fears of hospitalized children

¨ Monique & Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research

¨ Mt. Scopus renovation & expansion of the Outpatient Unit and Emergency Department

¨ Nancy Falchuk nurses' scholarships

¨ Neurology collaboration between Rothschild Hospital Paris and HMO

¨ Neurology Department

¨ Nystagmus Center

¨ Oncology Department

¨ Operation Solomon for the training of Ethiopian dental assistants

¨ Ophthalmology Department

¨ Oxymeter machines for neonatology

¨ Palestinian doctors being trained at Hadassah

¨ Pathology Lab

¨ Pediatric Hemato-oncology Unit

¨ Pediatric Ophthalmology

¨ PET Cyclotron

¨ Physicians from Hadassah sent to Malawi & Rwanda

¨ Pierre and Marie Curie Institute (Hadassah was the first foreign institution with which Curie collaborated in scientific research)

¨ Post-traumatic stress treatment & research

¨ Prostate cancer, pediatric, and genetic research,

¨ Retraining of Russian nurses

¨ Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower, Hadassah’s new inpatient facility, to be dedicated in 2012.

¨ Stem cell research

¨ Trauma Unit computer which enables doctors to receive photos of trauma victims from the scene of the accident in real time

Hadassah International Creates Connections and

Builds Bridges

Hadassah Medical Organization

Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef

and Ms. Lea Pope, General Manager of

The Alfred, signing the Memorandum

of Understanding

Thanks to an initiative of Hadassah Australia, the Hadassah Medical Organization and The Alfred in Melbourne, a premier trauma facility, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to share medical expertise and conduct joint research projects.

Hadassah Austria provided funds for a computer that, with a digital camera, relays images of a victim’s injuries to the trauma unit—in real time.

Facilitated by the vision and financial support of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO, the Hadassah Medical Organization embarked on a cooperative venture with

Canada

’s Sunnybrook Hospital. Called SHOTE—Sunnybrook Hadassah Orthopedic Trauma Exchange—the collaboration aims to advance scientific and clinical understanding in this medical specialty.

Hadassah France initiated and facilitated a research partnership between the Hadassah Medical Center and the Gustave-Roussy Institute, France’s leading cancer center. Hadassah Nice facilitated the formation of a formal collaboration between the Hadassah Medical Organization and the University Hospital of Nice, France in the fields of emergency preparedness and response and AIDS.

Hadassah Germany and the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf established the Hadassah Germany Skin Center at the Hadassah Medical Organization for skin cancer treatment and research.

AIDS prevention in Ethiopia

Hadassah Luxembourg NGO contributed to Hadassah’s extensive AIDS treatment and prevention program in

Ethiopia

, saving countless lives.

Mexican dentists enjoyed a fulfilling week

of academic exchange at Hadassah

Hadassah

Mexico

forged connections between the Hadassah Medical Organization and hospitals and health ministries both in

Mexico

and

Costa Rica

“Help the Jews Home” of Norway, a long-time organizational supporter of Hadassah, has donated funds to retrain Russian and Ethiopian immigrants for health careers at Hadassah Hospital.

Panama

initiated the collaboration between

Panama

’s Hospital Santo Tomas and the Hadassah Medical Center, where Hadassah trauma specialists helped Santo Tomas to open the first Trauma Unit in the country.

Participants from Hospital San Tomás line up to receive

their Trama Seminar diplomas.

Realizing that Turkey and other countries around the world could benefit from an association with the Hadassah Medical Organization, Aytúl Gökce, wife of the Turkish ambassador to Israel, decided to form an Israel-based unit for ambassadors and their wives. Called the Hadassah International Corps Diplomatique, this unit creates awareness about the Hadassah Medical Organization in the diplomatic community.

Hadassah International units support the Hadassah Medical Organization’s highly successful Hospital Clown Program. The medically trained clowns work with physicians to facilitate treatment for frightened children undergoing difficult medical procedures.

Hadassah clown helps frightened

children in Haiti afer earthquake

Through international nursing symposia, Hadassah International provides foreign health professionals with unique educational opportunities not available otherwise. These renowned seminars have brought Hadassah expertise to Argentina, Mexico, Panama, Spain and Venezuela.