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 […]
03.07.2013 – Female staffers mark Int’l Women’s Day at Kaplan
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 […]
04.05.2013 – Passing pediatrician delivers baby outside entrance
By JUDY SIEGEL Doctor on the way to lecture delivers baby of woman found in labor in Rehovot hospital public bathroom. NEW MOTHER Rotem Bar (left) and Dr. Hanni Olivestone pose with the newborn at Kaplan Medical Center Photo: Courtesy Kaplan Medical Center A pediatrician passing by the public women’s bathroom near the main entrance to Kaplan […]
04.08.2013 – Chance encounter reunites Moldovans
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Elderly patient and volunteer at Kaplan Medical Center realize on Remembrance Day they grew up in the same part of Moldova. Hospital bed Photo: Wikicommons A 101-year-old patient at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot and a 92-year-old volunteer in the orthopedics department who met on Sunday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, realized that […]
05.01.2013 – Two are nearly blinded by Lag Ba’omer air-rifle hijinks
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Niv Nir, a 13-year-old girl from Gan Yavne, and Omer Sabag, a 23-year-old man from Ashdod hurt in identical incidents. OMER SABAG (left) and Niv Nir (right), who suffered similar eye injuries this week Photo: Courtesy Kaplan Medical Center A teenage girl and a young man almost lost their sight earlier this week in […]
03.07.2014 – Wounded Ukrainian protesters airlifted to Israel for medical treatment
JTA – http://www.jta.org/2014/03/07/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/wounded-ukrainian-protesters-airlifted-to-israel-for-medical-treatment Wounded Ukrainian protesters airlifted to Israel for medical treatment By Ben Sales, Talia Lavin and Cnaan Liphshiz March 7, 2014 12:25pm A wounded individual is transported to a waiting plane, where he will be flown to Israel to receive medical care. (Shimon Briman) TEL AVIV (JTA) – For 17-year-old Bolodimir Bedyuk, a Ukrainian who was severely […]
03.07.2014 – Ukrainians wounded in Kiev arrive in Israel
The Times of Israel Israel & the Region http://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-jews-wounded-in-kiev-arrive-in-israel/ Ukrainians wounded in Kiev arrive in Israel Condition of 9 victims of gunfire is said to be serious as they are transferred to Kaplan and Hadassah hospitals BY YOEL GOLDMAN March 7, 2014, 7:42 pm Nine Ukrainians injured by gunfire during fighting in Kiev were flown to Israel […]
Video – Injured Ukrainians Find Specialized Care in Israel – i24news
See latest 3 minute video link to the international news story with Ukrainian protest victims airlifted to Israel for treatment at the Kaplan Medical Center: Injured Ukrainians Find Specialized Care in Israel – i24news http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mGUbHyH3c4M
01/09/2014 – Dimona woman delivers triplets after undergoing angioplasty for heart attack
Jerusalem Post Dimona woman delivers triplets after undergoing angioplasty for heart attack By JUDY SEIGEL-ITZKOVICH 01/09/2014 18:18 Drama took place recently at Rehovot’s Kaplan Medical Center; woman suffered heart attack at 30th week of pregnancy. Zinav Alpiomi in hospital with baby. Photo: Courtest Kaplan Medical Center A 31-year-old Dimona woman who had tried to become pregnant […]