Meir Hospital

Meir Medical Center (, "Merkaz Refu'i Me'ir") is a hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel. It is the seventh largest hospital complex in the country, and is part of a network of hospitals owned and operated by Clalit Health Services.
History.
The medical facility in Kfar Saba was opened to the public on July 15, 1956, as a hospital for Tuberculosis and diseases of the respiratory system. Later in 1962, Meir was turned into a general hospital and is now part of the Sapir Medical Center. Clalit Health Services (formerly known as Kupat Holim Clalit) built the original hospital thanks to the pivotal influence of Dr. Alfred Grünebaum.
Meir Hospital serves the ethnically diverse communities of the highly-populated eastern [[Sharon plain]], including [[Israeli Arab]] patients from [[Triangle (Israel)|the Triangle]] towns and villages. The hospital is named after Dr. Josef Meir (1890–1955), the first head of Kupat Holim Clalit and director of the ministry of health of [[Yishuv|pre-state Israel]]. Meir was a strong opponent of the elitist private health care then prevailing and stated that medicine should be organized as an equal public service aimed at improving health levels of the population at large. Today, when Meir Hospital medical staff is called upon to save life, it does not discriminate between religion, race or sex, admitting patients from the [[Green Line (Israel)|cross border]] [[Palestinian Authority]] city of [[Qalqilyah]].
Services.
Meir Hospital teaching departments are affiliated with the [[Sackler School of Medicine]], [[Tel Aviv University]], while laboratories are affiliated to [[Bar Ilan University]]. Meir Medical Center specializes in the treatment of [[pulmonary]] diseases and [[Vertebral column|spinal]] surgery and is accredited under the [[Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations|JCI]]. It is the base hospital for the Israeli [[Olympic games|Olympic]] team.
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