With meticulously coordinated logistics aided by the Israeli Army Medical Corps, 300 patients from several temporary hospitals in this city were moved today to the new, $30, 000, 000 Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. The new facility, covering an area of 70 acres, located at Kiryat Hadassah (Hadassah Town) is on the edge of this city, in the Judean Hills, and has been incorporated into the municipality of Jerusalem.
The transfer of Hadassah medical facilities from Jerusalem to the Medical Center was carried out in one day. The cost of moving the patients and medical facilities–estimated at $300, 000–was met by Hadassah chapters and groups in the United States.
(In New York, the official opening in Israel of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center was celebrated today at Hadassah House by 300 leaders of the organization. Principal speakers included Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York; Binyamin Eliav, Israel Consul-General in New York; Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky, national president of Hadassah; and Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, vice-president of the American Jewish Physicians Committee. )
The new facility, consolidating Hadassah’s medical, clinical, diagnostic, research and teaching facilities in Israel, is the most modern of the kind in the entire Middle East. Hadassah will contribute a total of $22, 500, 000 for the erection of the complex, consisting of 21 structures. Only about two-thirds of the buildings have been erected to date. Hadassah has contributed $16, 000, 000, and estimates are that the organization must contribute at least $6, 500, 000 more.
The Medical Center will include a 500-bed teaching hospital with service laboratories; a separate mother and child pavilion for maternity and infant care; an outpatient department, to serve more than 200, 000 outpatients annually; the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School–the only medical school in Israel–founded in 1949 by the Hebrew University and Hadassah; the Henrietta Szold School of Nursing and Residence; and a synagogue.
Among the buildings still to be completed or erected are the Medical School, the mother and child pavilion, and the synagogue. The synagogue will have 12 stained glass windows, executed by the famed artist, Marc Chagall. The windows are now on exhibit at the Louvre in Paris, and will remain there until mid-July.
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