Elisha Medical Center
The Elisha Medical Center, also called Elisha Hospital is a private hospital in Haifa, northern Israel. The center offers its patients physicians, technology and equipment, to provide the patients medical treatment. In order to expand its services and reach a broader patient population, the hospital has collaborated with the Rambam Medical Center. The facilities include the hyperbaric oxygen treatment center and the clinic for magnetic resonance imaging.
Departments
The center has departments dedicated to surgery, gynecology, urology, orthopedics, cardiology, rehabilitation, gastroenterology and dialysis. Elisha has 140 hospital beds and six operation rooms designed to make different surgical procedures, from cardiac and plastic surgery, to back surgery and joint replacement. The hospital has a staff of 300 personnel and 200 doctors, which performs 10.000 surgical procedures, and 12.000 ambulatory procedures each year, as well as in vitro fertilization treatments.
Specialized Centers
Elisha Medical Center houses several specialized units, notably the Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Center, recognized as one of the few licensed facilities of its kind in Israel. This center offers advanced hyperbaric oxygen therapy for various medical conditions.
In 2024, Elisha Medical Center collaborated with the Medix sports medicine center to establish a new medical facility at the Sami Ofer Stadium in Haifa. This partnership aims to provide comprehensive medical and rehabilitation services to athletes and the general population in the Haifa region and northern Israel.
Medical Tourism
In April 2014, Gennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv in Ukraine, was treated at Elisha Medical Center after surviving an assassination attempt. He was transferred to the hospital for specialized medical care, highlighting the center's capability to handle complex international cases.