The Shaare Zedek Community Medical Center, constructed in 1902, has embarked on an expansion program to meet the growing needs of this city’s Jewish and Arab population. The new medical center, more than eight stories tall, will have as Its nucleus an ultra-modern 500-bed patient facility-twice that of its present capacity – with specialized units for intensive therapy, coronary and emergency care.
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