Founded in 1902, for the past 120 years, Shaare Zedek Medical Center has provided top-level medical care for the people of Jerusalem and is today the city’s largest and fastest-growing hospital. Bringing together a healthy blend of advanced medicine with compassionate care, Shaare Zedek is known and respected as a highly sought-after medical provider throughout Jerusalem, Israel and the broader medical community.
With a constant commitment to discover increasingly innovative means to provide patient care, the hospital treats over 950,000 patients per year. A medical staff of close to 1,000 doctors and 1,500 nurses is complemented by over 900 administrative and maintenance personnel. Many of Shaare Zedek’s medical practitioners are globally respected physicians and nurses, having advanced groundbreaking research into new and increasingly innovative treatments and therapies. 700 volunteers can be found engaged in activities in departments throughout the hospital.
Since early 2020, Shaare Zedek has been thrust into the global effort against the Coronavirus and since that time has become one of Israel’s leading hospitals for the treatment of patients with Covid-19. Over 10,000 patients have been treated on an inpatient basis and many thousands more treated in the Biological Emergency Room specifically set up for Corona patients. Given the high number of Corona patients we have treated and the vast data that emerges from those cases, the hospital has also been a major player in the international research effort into designing and testing various techniques and medicines. To date, over 150 Corona-related studies have been launched at Shaare Zedek.
A highly esteemed academic and research institution, Shaare Zedek acts as a teaching hospital affiliated with the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a relationship which helps promote the centrality of medical education and scientific advancement.
In embracing the vision of compassionate and advanced care that has characterized Shaare Zedek since the early twentieth century, the hospital proudly stands at the forefront of medical advancement both in Israel and around the world.
