Meir Medical Center

Meir Medical Center is a prominent public (governmental) general hospital located in Kfar Saba, Israel. It was originally opened to the public on July 15, 1956, as a hospital for tuberculosis and respiratory diseases. However, in 1962, it was converted into a general hospital and is now part of the Sapir Medical Center, operating under Clalit Health Services, one of Israel's largest HMOs. Meir Medical Center is deeply affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and also with Bar-Ilan University, serving as a significant academic and research base. Meir Medical Center is a large facility, with a capacity of approximately 780 to 817 beds for hospitalization. It annually performs around 20,000 to 22,000 surgical operations and handles hundreds of thousands of diagnostic procedures. The hospital has a robust surgical division with multiple operating rooms (exact count not consistently specified, but implied by the high volume of surgeries). For Intensive Care Un...

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