Assuta Medical Center

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The hospital was founded in Tel Aviv in 1936 by Ben-Zion Harel, a physician who later became a Member of Knesset.[https://web.archive.org/web/20040531045819/http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_print_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=386 MK Ben-Zion Harel] It had a staff of 34 doctors and 74 beds.{{Cite web|url=http://duns100.dundb.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=comp_eng&duns=600345243|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620193402/http://duns100.dundb.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=comp_eng&duns=600345243|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-06-20|title=Assuta Medical Centers profile | Hospitals by Income | © Dun's 100}} The architect was Joseph Neufeld, a leading proponent of the International Style in Israel.[http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/back-to-the-future-the-tree-is-still-standing-1.380371 Back to the future / The tree is still standing], Haaretz

In 2009, Assuta moved to a new building in Ramat HaHayal. With floor space of 90,000 sq. meters (970,000 sq. feet), it is the largest private hospital in Israel. The building was designed by Canadian firm Zeidler Partnership Architects and Israeli architectural firms of Marcelo Brestovisky and Moore Yasky Sivan.{{Cite web |url=http://aiq.co.il/su_article.php?id=78&num=75&lang=eng |title=The New Assuta Hospital, Tel-Aviv |access-date=2012-01-27 |archive-date=2013-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214846/http://www.aiq.co.il/su_article.php?id=78&num=75&lang=eng |url-status=dead }} Assuta is owned by the Maccabi Health Care Services Group.{{Cite web|url=http://www.maccabi4u.co.il/1787-he/Maccabi.aspx|title=Maccabi Health Care Services}}

{{As of|2011}} the hospital had sixteen operating rooms and is certified for surgical procedures in all specialty areas. Some 17,000 operations are performed every year, including complicated surgical procedures such as open-heart surgery, neurological procedures. The hospital operates a cardiac catheterization laboratory and performs all types of angiography procedures, including diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and stent insertion during angioplasty.{{Cite web |url=http://med-international.com/assuta.htm |title=Assuta Medical Centers |access-date=2011-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928015642/http://med-international.com/assuta.htm |archive-date=2011-09-28 |url-status=dead }}

Assuta is one of seven Israeli hospitals that received accreditation from the Joint Commission International, an organization that sets safety standards for medical care.{{Cite web|url=http://english.themarker.com/seven-hospitals-receive-prestigious-int-l-safety-accreditation-1.352000|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723171912/http://english.themarker.com/seven-hospitals-receive-prestigious-int-l-safety-accreditation-1.352000|title=Seven hospitals receive prestigious international safety accreditation|archivedate=July 23, 2011|website= themarker.com}}

Assuta Hospital's IVF clinic performs 7,000 cycles a year. In 2002, the journal Human Reproduction Update reported that 1,657 IVF procedures per million people per year were performed in Israel, compared with 899 in Iceland, which was second in line.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9644 |title=Israel leads the world in IVF |access-date=2011-11-30 |archive-date=2014-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827020735/http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/9644/ |url-status=dead }} At Assuta's fertility center, a lab houses 25 incubators and 60,000 frozen embryos stored in liquid nitrogen. While the procedure is state-paid at public hospitals, Assuta patients are charged a co-payment of approximately $150.[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/world/middleeast/18israel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Where Families Are Prized, Help Is Free], The New York Times

In 2011, Assuta won the tender for building a new medical center in Ashdod. Assuta operates four hospitals and four outpatient medical centers in Israel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Thousands-hit-streets-in-TA-social-justice-protest-275826|title=Thousands hit streets in TA social justice protest|date=June 30, 2012|website=The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com}} Assuta services in Ashdod will include the operation of an emergency room in a sheltered structure protected from missile attacks, an internal medicine ward, a geriatrics ward, a pediatrics ward, a cardiology center, and oncology institute and a dialysis institute. The wards will have a total of 105 beds with another 100 beds for brief hospitalizations.{{Cite web|url=http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000740716&fid=1725|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130108053912/http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000740716&fid=1725|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-08|title=Assuta to open Ashdod hospital in 2013 - Globes|date=January 8, 2013|website=archive.ph}}

In September 2022, a woman at Assuta Medical Center, while in her 30th week of pregnancy, was informed through genetic testing that the fetus she was carrying was not biologically related to her or her husband. Following this discovery, the Israeli Ministry of Health intervened and immediately began an investigation. A committee, led by Professor Ami Fishman, was formed to identify the biological parents of the fetus. The hospital was ordered to cease taking on new IVF patients to prevent similar occurrences until the investigation was complete.{{cite web |url=https://thejewishindependent.com.au/wrong-baby-systemic-failures-exposed-in-israels-ivf-implant-mix-ups |title=Wrong Baby: Systemic Failures Exposed in Israel's IVF Implant Mix-Ups |author=The Jewish Independent |date=August 6, 2023 |access-date=November 22, 2024}} Following a protracted legal case, on November 24, 2024, the Family Court in Rishon LeZion made a final ruling that the two-year-old child, who had been raised by the non-biological parents since birth, should be transferred to her biological parents.{{cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/court-rules-child-born-after-ivf-mix-up-must-be-taken-from-birth-parents-given-to-genetic-parents/ |title=Court rules child born after IVF mix-up must be given to genetic parents |author=Israel Times |date=November 24, 2024 |access-date=November 22, 2024}}

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