“I was fortunate to meet a team of dedicated professionals that really love their work,” 51-year-old Capt. (res.) George Kahlon, says, as he goes through arduous physical therapy to heal serious leg injuries suffered during Operation Protective Edge. Shlomi Diaz Capt. (res.) George Kahlon and Deputy Director of Physiotherapy Services Ofri Brikman Photo credit: Kaplan […]
March 7, 2014 – Ten Wounded Ukrainian Democracy Protesters Airlifted to Israel for Medical Treatment (Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency) TEL AVIV (JTA) – For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely wounded in clashes with Ukrainian police on Feb. 18, Israeli medical care may be his only hope. After a pitched battle with Ukrainian police forces […]
Pictured: Chris Katulka, Friends of Israel Ministries coordinator for the Origins teen and young adult volunteer program at the Kaplan Medical Center, conducted a Tree Planting Memorial service on Thursday, July 3, 2014 for Bret Bontrager, 21, a 2012 Origins volunteer, who passed doing volunteer service in Thailand on June 6, 2014. The Tree Planting […]
Ophthalmology department – shrapnel removed from patient’s eye orbital bone, injury from Ashdod gas station attack. Patient’s vision was successfully saved. Dr. Milshtein with Shlomo Kedem Shlomo Kedem (78), a resident of Ashdod, father of five children and grandfather to six grandchildren, was wounded during a missile strike at the Ashdod gas station Friday morning, July 11, 2014. […]
Implanted cardiac tissues from pig and horse save life of combat soldier The young soldier, Yaniv Yifrah, was diagnosed with severe cardiac insufficiency caused by a damaged aortic heart valve that endangered his life. A combat soldier in the Golani Brigade recently underwent a rare cardiac operation with a pulmonary valve implant from a pig […]
Valve replacement via catheterization: Now more accurate! Kaplan Medical Center heart surgeons performed two valve implantations via catheterization instead of open heart surgery, employing a new generation valve that can be repositioned. This performance to reposition the valve tackles one of the problematic issues related to valve implantation in the cath lab-valvular regurgitation, that occurs […]
AFKMC Opens for the West Coast on Oscar Night Oscar Night, Feb. 22, 2015, nearly 100 Community Leaders gather in the home of Molly and Israel Weinberg, hearing an Israel Update from Consul General David Siegel, and learning of the Life-Saving Work of Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel Meetings were held in the following days […]
“Top Docs” of Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel on IDF/ Israel Mission to Save Lives in Nepal – Adapted from Israel’s Ynet news – feature story published May 5, 2015 – And from reports from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and the Prime Ministers’ Office. On Monday April 27, 2015, Israeli international aid went into action […]
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Volunteer pledges that upon his passing, his life insurance money would be used to purchase advanced medical equipment for the hospital. CLAUDE JEWETT poses with a nurse, patients Photo: (Courtesy Kaplan Medical Center) A 66-year-old Protestant from Midland, Texas, who is voluntarily renovating the pediatric pavilion at Rehovot’s Kaplan Medical Center, surprised management on […]
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH 03.07.2013 All staffers from physicians and nurses to paramedical workers are women at Rehovot hospital’s emergency department. ZOHAR KATUA smiles between female medical staffers at the Rehovot hospital yesterday. Photo: Kaplan Medical Center Although women’s representation in medical schools has reached 50 percent, hospital staff is still mostly men. But at Kaplan […]
