This week, 10/11/24, the move of the Rambam's heart surgery department to its new premises spanning two floors, each with an area of 1000 square meters - in the Eyal Ofer cardiology building - was completed. The highlight of the department are two operating rooms Completely new, modern and equipped with the best equipment for heart surgery, adjacent to the ward and not requiring travel from the hospital ward to operating rooms on another floor.
Adjacent to the operating rooms is the cardiac intensive care unit and another intermediate care unit - in both of which more treatment beds have been added, and their capacity is greater than before. In the spirit of the times, the two new operating rooms, which increased the total number of operating rooms at Rambam to 24, were built completely protected and allow the team to continue its operation in any situation. On the floor above the operating rooms and emergency units is the new inpatient department for heart surgery, which now covers an entire floor. Bright and spacious, the ward's new inpatient rooms were built with the heart patient, his needs and his accompanying relatives in mind.
The treating staff - surgeons, researchers, and nurses - will also benefit from much improved living conditions. The two new floors of the heart surgery department in the new heart building are part of the cardio-surgical system at Rambam, which is all unified as of today in the same location and allows heart patients in Israel to be given full care: diagnosis, catheterization, echo, and surgeries. "The new facility is suitable for the large heart surgery department and the leader in the north" says the director of the department, Prof. Gil Bolotin, "the combination of all cardiology activity and heart surgery in the same building allows for continued cooperation between the departments and the best treatment for heart patients."
Beside Prof. Bolotin, the department has six other senior doctors, two of whom are leading professors in the field of heart surgery: Prof. Benny Medalion, a heart failure specialist and Prof. Gideon Sahar, an expert in the field of bypass surgery. "We now have three professors with extensive experience in heart surgery who operate at the same time," concludes Prof. Bolotin, "there are not many heart surgery departments in the world that benefit from such an offer."
