The American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem

For over 100 years, Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem has played an important role in the life of the City and its mixed population. Shaare Zedek is renowned for its unique blend of superior medical treatment combined with personalized, compassionate care. It is a 500-bed public non-profit hospital, with 50,000 yearly admissions and 200,000 outpatient clinic visits annually.

Since its founding in 1902, the hospital has warmly welcomed all segments of Jerusalem’s diverse population, Christian, Muslim, and Jew. Everyone who comes to Shaare Zedek knows that they will receive the highest level of medical treatment available, from an equally diverse staff of caring, concerned professionals.

Shaare Zedek boasts several Centers of Excellence, areas in which the hospital is a world leader: Emergency Medicine; Cardiology and Cardio-thoracic Surgery; Woman and Infant Medicine; Cancer Care, including Palliative Medicine; Medical Genetics; Pediatric Dialysis; Pediatric Neurology; Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery; and the world’s largest clinic for Gaucher’s Disease.