Internal Medicine D joins the three existing internal medicine departments at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, and will help relieve their extremely heavy patient load. Dr. Nina Avashovitz, the director of the new department: "we are aware of the many challenges facing us and shall be actively striving for excellence”
Last week the
The department is headed by Dr. Nina Avashovitz, who until now was a senior physician in Internal Medicine C, and the hospital’s rheumatology consultant. She is joined by Dr. Younis Said, a specialist in internal medicine and a rheumatologist by profession. He formerly worked as a senior physician in both the
The opening of an additional department will help reduce the pressure on the day to day activities of the other internal departments. Those department’s occupancy sometimes reached 160%, especially (but not only) during the winter.
Currently, the department is recruiting additional personnel in a range of fields – medical (including specialists in internal medicine), nursing care, etc.
Dr. Nina Avashovitz, the department’s director, states that she is aware of the challenges facing the department, particularly in light of the currently distressed state of internal medicine. However, she is hopeful that a major investment in the hospital’s infrastructure and support for extensive academic work within the department will assist in attracting highly qualified doctors and a professionally proficient nursing team. Finally, active efforts will be made to strive for excellence throughout – in medicine, research and in nursing care.
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Dr. Avashovitz and Staff during morning patient visit
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| Nurses situation in the new department |
