In 1936 all the workers in what was then the center of Palestine (Gosh- Dan of today) agreed that everybody would donate two days of work to the foundation for the area's first hospital, they called it the "Hospital of Judea and Samaria". The hospital was later renamed "Beilinson" Hospital in honor of one of its founders Dr. Moshe Beilinson, a physician and head of the admiration committee of "Kupat Holim", (General Sick Fund), and also the publisher and editor of the newspaper Davar.
Beilinson's highly professional staff of physicians, nurses, and paramedics, the variety of services offered and the many research efforts have all contributed to its growth from a local 70-bed hospital to a 900-bed one.
Just like the city of Petach Tikva, the Beilinson Hospital has always been a leader and trailblazer.
In 1938, it introduced the first Blood Bank in Israel. In 1964 Beilinson Hospital performed the first living-related donor kidney transplant in Israel, and in 1968, the first heart transplant, just one year after the operation was introduced in the world. In 1970 it established the first heart institute in the country; and in 1975, the first born and premature baby intensive care unit. It was also the first hospital in Israel to have a skin disease department, a nephrology (the kidney research) institute, and a dialysis unit. The first implantation of an artificial heart in Israel was performed at Beilinson in 1995.
Today the Beilinson Hospital has grown to be "Rabin Medical Center". This center combines the Beilinson hospital, the Schneider Hospital for children which is the largest and the most advanced hospital for children in the Middle East and the Sharon Hospital which is actually one of Belinson extensions that became an independent hospital.
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