With the strike of midnight on January 1^st, ushering in the calendar year 2011, Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center firmly established itself as Israel’s most active maternity hospital, after recording 13,758 maternity deliveries, with a total of 14,020 babies (including twins, triplets, etc.) in 2010. Until 2011 that status had previously been held by Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, the only hospital serving a population of  750,000 in the Negev,  while Shaare Zedek is one of four hospitals serving the greater Jerusalem area.   

“We are proud to assume this ranking as Israel’s leading maternity facility, a status we have held for the Jerusalem region for many years,” said Professor Jonathan Halevy, Shaare Zedek’s Director General. “The fact that our hospital plays such an instrumental role in the physical development of Jerusalem and Israel, is a particular source of pride and we expect our numbers to only continue to increase in the coming months and years.”

“This number is not only indicative of how busy we are in our maternity facilities, but the natural outgrowth of such significant development in our population is that Jerusalem’s medical facilities in general face the need to expand,” Professor Halevy said. “The necessary response on our part is the ongoing expansion of our pediatric facilities, most prominently the current construction of the Wilf Children’s Hospital."

Shaare Zedek’s Wilf Woman and Infant Center on 'Charlie’s Floor' is comprised of 13 individual delivery rooms and three separate post-natal departments, the third being the Hochstein Maternity C Department, which was opened in 2008. The hospital maintains the very active Huberfeld Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which cares for an excess of 600 infants each year, some born as early as 25 weeks of gestation. 

The large number of babies born at Shaare Zedek, considerably higher than most large urban medical facilities in the western world, has also enabled the hospital to take a leading position in a variety of research studies connected to pre and post-natal care. Physicians from the Wilf Woman and Infant Center have contributed many highly-regarded papers and studies and recommendations from Shaare Zedek are now being practiced in major maternity facilities around the globe.

With the strike of midnight on January 1^st, ushering in the calendar year 2011, Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center firmly established itself as Israel’s most active maternity hospital, after recording 13,758 maternity deliveries, with a total of 14,020 babies (including twins, triplets, etc.) in 2010. Until 2011 that status had previously been held by Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, the only hospital serving a population of  750,000 in the Negev,  while Shaare Zedek is one of four hospitals serving the greater Jerusalem area.   

“We are proud to assume this ranking as Israel’s leading maternity facility, a status we have held for the Jerusalem region for many years,” said Professor Jonathan Halevy, Shaare Zedek’s Director General. “The fact that our hospital plays such an instrumental role in the physical development of Jerusalem and Israel, is a particular source of pride and we expect our numbers to only continue to increase in the coming months and years.”

“This number is not only indicative of how busy we are in our maternity facilities, but the natural outgrowth of such significant development in our population is that Jerusalem’s medical facilities in general face the need to expand,” Professor Halevy said. “The necessary response on our part is the ongoing expansion of our pediatric facilities, most prominently the current construction of the Wilf Children’s Hospital."

Shaare Zedek’s Wilf Woman and Infant Center on 'Charlie’s Floor' is comprised of 13 individual delivery rooms and three separate post-natal departments, the third being the Hochstein Maternity C Department, which was opened in 2008. The hospital maintains the very active Huberfeld Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which cares for an excess of 600 infants each year, some born as early as 25 weeks of gestation. 

The large number of babies born at Shaare Zedek, considerably higher than most large urban medical facilities in the western world, has also enabled the hospital to take a leading position in a variety of research studies connected to pre and post-natal care. Physicians from the Wilf Woman and Infant Center have contributed many highly-regarded papers and studies and recommendations from Shaare Zedek are now being practiced in major maternity facilities around the globe.