(Hai Pa and the health system) - The Ministry of Health will allocate 2023 additional beds to the hospitals between 2028-1,790 - an increase of 11 percent. How many hospital beds will be transferred to the hospitals in Haifa?
One of the significant hardships faced by the hospitals in Israel, and in Haifa and the outskirts in particular, is the lack of hospital beds. The hospitals in Haifa, and especially the Rambam Hospital - the largest hospital in the north, have known difficult times in this respect, when many times they reached over 200 percent occupancy and even had to take stretchers intended for emergencies out of the warehouses, so that they could be used as a substitute for beds.
The shortage of inpatient beds is well known to the Ministry of Health and over the years hospital managers and senior officials in the health system have complained about it a lot. Now comes the answer, in the hope that it will improve, if only a little, the situation. As part of the multi-year bed plan, the health system will be allocated 2023 additional hospital beds in the years 2028-1,790, so that there will be approximately 17,500 general beds in Israel - an increase of 11 percent. The rate of beds is expected to be 1.77 per 1,000 people by the end of the program, instead of 2.398 per 1,000 people according to 2019 data.
Adjustments following the war
As part of strengthening the hospitalization system in Israel, the Ministry of Health published the multi-year bed plan for the health system, when following the war adjustments were made to the plan, in order to respond to the acute needs of the system immediately and within the next few years, while giving great emphasis to the intensive care, neurology and stroke departments as well as the rehabilitation departments .
In the years 2023-2028, therefore, 1,790 additional beds will be allocated to the hospitals - an increase of 11 percent and in total there will be approximately 17,500 general beds in the hospitals in Israel.
rehabilitation and mental health
In addition to this, and as part of the Ministry's plans for the field of rehabilitation and the field of mental health, 300 beds were allocated for the rehabilitation departments, when two new rehabilitation centers will be opened in Poriya and Hadassah for the residents of the north and the Jerusalem area. Additional beds will be allocated to these beds as part of the reconstruction plan following the war.
For the mental health departments, 245 beds will be allocated, with the absolute majority of the beds in general hospitals and not in mental health centers, and will be supra-regional for hospitalized patients from all over the country. The rate of beds is expected to stand at 1.77 per 1,000 people by the end of the program.
The distribution of beds between the hospitals was determined after a comprehensive staff work that included mapping the existing situation and from a national perspective, after the needs were gathered from the field and after analyzing various parameters, including occupancy, demographic change, clinical aspects, loads, etc., and with the understanding that it must be strengthened both financially and in terms of services the hospitals and give emphasis to the various needs of the hospitals and to reduce disparities in the periphery and the center.
From the Rambam Hospital it was handed over to Hai Pa Because during 2024, 97 beds will be added for the benefit of the hospital.
From Bnei Zion Hospital it was handed over to Lai Fe Because as part of the plan, two beds will be added to the intensive care department in 2024 and 44 to all hospital departments by 2028.
From Carmel Hospital it was given to Lai Pa: "The matters have not yet been finalized, and in any case no additional beds are expected at Carmel Hospital in 2024."
"Reducing gaps between the periphery and the center and adjusting to the needs of the war"
Minister of Health, Uriel Bosso:
"The multi-year plan for the allocation of beds is an important step in the framework of the actions we are promoting to shorten the unbearable queues in the health system and in the mental health system and to improve the accessibility and quality of medical care. The plan we approved is a realization of the coalition agreements signed by Shas Chairman Rabbi Aryeh Deri upon the formation of the government to add significant number of general and psychiatric hospitalization beds each year.
We put special emphasis on a vision of reducing the disparity in the rate of beds per capita between the periphery and the center and in accordance with the needs of the war. We will continue to strengthen the hospitals and medical institutions and enable quality and equal service for all citizens."
"Critical for improving the medical service"
Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Siman Tov:
"The bed plan was built in accordance with the multi-year strategic plan for the health system, with the aim of providing a significant response to the lack of beds and adaptation to the needs that arise as a result of the war. The addition of beds is critical to improving the medical service for the residents of the State of Israel. The Ministry of Health worked with the Ministry of Finance with the aim of increasing the number of hospital beds, already in the annual budget passed, when alongside the bed plan, the ministry encourages the health funds to continue developing the system of home hospitalizations and home rehabilitation."
The really interesting and important information, which is the distribution of beds to the various hospitals, periphery versus center, etc., is not included in the article at all. 143 beds for Haifa out of 1790 is it a lot or a little?
Come on, release money already for hospitals that will be protected from all enemies and send Shabaim to Alef Azazel
And with all this, they want to remove "Carmel" hospital from Haifa and move it to Kiryat Ata. It makes no sense. Let them open a new hospital in Kiryat and not take "Carmel" from Haifa.
In spite of all that... poor people in Israel must leave the country, health is mainly for the rich!