HaEmek Medical Center

Front view of the HaEmek Medical Center Campus

HaEmek Medical Center (Hebrew: מרכז רפואי העמק, Merkaz refu'i ha-Emek) is a hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula.

History

The origins of this medical institution date back to 1924. The hospital was opened on April 29, 1930. In 1932 it was temporarily closed due to lack of funds.^[1] Through the years the hospital gradually grew into one of the biggest medical facilities in Israel. Nowadays the hospital serves about 500,000 residents of the adjacent region. The hospital has about 1,900 employees.^[2]

The hospital is located at an altitude of about 1500 meters southeast of Afula next to Highway No. 65.^[3]

See also

• Health care in Israel

References

External links

• HaEmek Medical Center

General hospitals in Israel (from north to south) LaGalilee (Nahariya) Ziv (Safed) Poriah (Tiberias) HaEmek (Afula) Rambam (Haifa) Bnei Zion (Haifa) Carmel (Haifa) Hillel Yaffe (Hadera) Laniado (Netanya) Meir (Kfar Saba) Rabin (Petah Tikva) Ma'ayanei HaYeshua (Bnei Brak) Sourasky (Tel Aviv) Assuta (Tel Aviv) Sheba (Tel HaShomer/Ramat Gan) Wolfson (Holon) Assaf HaRofeh (Tzrifin/Be'er Ya'akov) Kaplan (Rehovot) Hadassah Ein Kerem Hadassah Mount Scopus (Jerusalem) Shaare Zedek (Jerusalem) Bikur Holim (Jerusalem) Barzilai (Ashkelon) Soroka (Beersheba) Yoseftal (Eilat)

Coordinates: 32°37′19.88″N 35°19′0.7″E / 32.6221889°N 35.316861°E / 32.6221889; 35.316861