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Contact:

Dr. Gerry ShowstackResource DevelopmentTel: 972-8-646-7435, Mobile: 972-54-220-2608email: shows1@netvision.net.il

Soroka Medical CenterExternal AffairsTel: 972-8-640-3963, Fax: 972-8-640-3901email: iritbibi@clalit.org.il

American Friends of Soroka Medical CenterP.O Box 184-H Scarsdale, NY 10583Tel: 914-725-9070, Fax: 914-725-9073email: americanfriends@soroka.orgwebsite: www.soroka.org

The Obstetrics and Gynecology DivisionThe Obstetrics and Gynecology Division of Soroka Medical Center is one of the best and most advanced in Israel, providing Ob/Gyn healthcare and medical services to the entire Negev, covering over 60% of Israel. The Division's staff is comprised of 50 physicians and 195 nurses who work round the clock, doing their utmost to nurture Israel's future.

Every year 13,500 infants are born in Soroka's Ob/Gyn Division, more • than at any other hospital in Israel

More than 15,000 women are cared • for annually at the Gynecology Emergency Room

Over 26,000 women come to • Soroka's Women's Clinics each year for diagnosis, counseling and treatment

The Ob/Gyn Division treats women of all ages and backgrounds, spanning diverse cultures and including new and veteran immigrants, native-born Israelis, secular, religious and ultra-Orthodox, Jews and Bedouin all in a highly professional medical division whose sense of humanity knows no limits.

In light of its vast experience in obstetrics, the very diverse nature of the population cared for, and the Division's exceptional senior staff, the Ob/Gyn Division attracts many skilled young medical school graduates, interns, and residents. Highly talented young medical professionals join the Division's ranks and together with the Division's senior staff publish hundreds of academic studies in the most prestigious professional journals worldwide.

The Division will soon relocate to its new quarters in the Ob/Gyn Building,

adjacent to the Saban Pediatric Medical Center. The Saban

Pediatric Center itself is also housed in a new building that opened just a year ago and is the main in-patient hospitalization facility for the 400,000 children who live in

the Negev.

This new complex will form the main "healthy" entrance to the hospital,

with important breathing space between

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newborns, new mothers, and children and the hospital's internal medicine and surgery departments and units. The new complex is designed and constructed according to the highest standards, with special care to take into consideration the needs of the new mothers, newborn infants, children, and other family members.

The new three-story Ob/Gyn Building will consist of 18,000 square meters (approximately 190,000 square feet) and include 25 delivery/birthing rooms, two obstetrics wards, a gynecology emergency room and an obstetrics emergency room, a neonatal department and an in-vitro fertility unit.

The proposed Women and Children's Surgery Complex will contain four spacious operating rooms, one of which will be designated for the Department of Pediatric Surgery, located in the adjacent Saban Pediatric Medical Center.

The Department of Pediatric SurgeryThe Department of Pediatric Surgery was established at Soroka Medical Center

thirty years ago. It is one of the largest in Israel, and a leader in the field. The Department treats

infants, children and teens – from birth to 18 years old.

The Department of Pediatric Surgery specializes in a wide array of advanced surgical procedures and methods. It leads in several fields, which include minimally invasive

abdominal and thoracic surgery and oncology surgery including removal

of tumors and insertion of catheters for chemotherapy.

The Department has developed a special pre-operative program to prepare children for scheduled surgery, including a booklet designed specifically to reduce their fears and anxieties. The booklet, which all children receive, describes the procedure, the pre-op preparation, the surgery itself and the recovery period in the hospital in a humorous vein and through the eyes of its main character, a 12- year-old.

The Pediatric Surgical Department performs an average of 1,700 surgeries annually, 25% more than carried out at most hospitals nationwide. The Department's core staff consists of four senior physicians, seventeen nurses,

a physiotherapist, a social worker and a secretary.

The Department is accredited by the Scientific Council of the Israel Medical Association to specialize and offer specialized training in pediatric surgery. It is responsible for instructing medical students from Ben-Gurion University, as well as students in the Medical School for International Health incollaboration with Columbia University Medical Center in New York. The Department is also involved in teaching pediatric surgery to students in the School of Nursing and the School of Emergency Medicine.

The Saban Pediatric Medical Center, in which the Department of Pediatric Surgery is located, is one of the most impressive and advanced in Israel, uniquely designed with the comfort and convenience of the children and their families in mind, offering cheerful surroundings and in-house education facilities and amenities alongside first-rate professional care.

The NeedThe surgeons of the Department of Pediatric Surgery and the Ob/Gyn Division operate on thousands of hospitalized and outpatient women and children every year, and the number is constantly increasing. And yet, the pediatric operations are carried out in the hospital's general surgical complex, far from the Department's pediatric wards. This is of course inefficient for the medical staff of the Department of Pediatric Surgery,as well as inconvenient for the children and their families at a difficult and already stressful time.

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Floor plan of the operating rooms The ProjectThe proposed designated Ob/Gyn and Pediatric Division operating rooms will be located in the new Women's Building, adjacent to the Pediatrics Building. The operating room complex will be state of the art and will include three operating rooms for the Women's Division and one for the specific use of the Pediatric Surgical Department.

CostsThe construction of the proposed Women and Children's Operating Rooms complex (1,080 square meters, 11,620 square feet) will cost US $5,500,000, including medical equipment and furnishings.

Donation and Donor Recognition The entire Women and Children's Operating Room complex can be named by the donor for a gift of $2,500,000, or $750,000 for 1 operating room.

Full and prominent donor recognition will be provided at the Women and Children's Operating Room complex itself, as well as at the Donors' Wall of Honor at Soroka Medical Center. In addition, there will be a dignified public dedication and naming ceremony.

Thank you for considering this opportunity and request

American Friends of Soroka Medical CenterP.O Box 184-H Scarsdale, NY 10583

Tel: 914-725-9070Fax: 914-725-9073

email: americanfriends@soroka.orgwebsite: www.soroka.org

Soroka Medical CenterPOB 151, Beer-Sheva,84101 IsraelTel: 972-8-640-3963Fax: 972-8-640-3901email: iritbibi@clalit.org.ilwebsite: www.soroka.co.il

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