NEW SHELTERED EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
The five-year strategic plan of Laniado Hospital is revealed. The flagship project in the plan is construction of a protected emergency medicine hospital, with an area of 4000 square meters. The construction will be completed by the end of 2027. This is phase A of a plan to build a hospital tower with an area of 16,000 m2. So far, about NIS 70 million have been raised for the ambitious project.
Laniado is launching the hospital’s five-year plan for the coming years, with the main goal being the construction of a protected hospital for emergency medicine. Today, Laniado Hospital has an emergency medicine department with 26 beds – the department is not protected at all, and in 2023, over 60,000 inquiries came to the department! The continuation of the emergency medicine department’s activity in such a crowded infrastructure requires the director’s committee and the management of Laniado Hospital to enter into an intensive process of building a protected hospital for emergency medicine. The protected hospital will make it possible to maintain functional continuity, in all the various emergencies, first and foremost rocket fire from the northern area or from the Samaria area. Many resources were invested in the planning of the protected hospital, in order to provide a clinical response to the approximately 500 thousand residents of the city of Netanya and the Sharon area, with for significant demographic growth in the coming years.
The planning team, led by the Dagan Mochli Architects and the Kidan Engineering and Project management, examined many issues of medical innovation, functional continuity, living spaces for caregivers, prevention of infections, protection to an extremely strict standard – the result is a project with an area of 4000 square meters, fully protected for any scenario and contains treatment areas for inpatients (50 inpatient beds + 10 ambulatory beds for short-term treatments), ambulatory patients, an orthopedic and surgical emergency room, a trauma center, various imaging examination rooms (X-ray, ultrasound, CT, etc.). The protected emergency medicine hospital will contain 60 hospital beds, as well as an area for walking patients and of course very spacious living spaces for the concerned family members.
Construction of the protected emergency medicine hospital is a project of strategic value to the State of Israel. The Ministries of Finance and Health are involved in the project, in its compliance with extremely strict construction standards and in partially financing the project. In addition, under the floor of the protected hospital for emergency medicine, a huge underground parking lot with 3 levels will be built that will be used as an emergency hospital for additional inpatient wards, so that the entire Laniado Hospital will be able to maintain continuity of work at any given moment. The project was designed with a forward-looking view with reference to the massive demographic growth until the year 2048, so is the equipment that the Ministry of Health requires to purchase for the project – it is also the most modern currently available on the market.
At the final planning meeting of the project planning team, which included the representatives of the executive committee, the management, the architectural, management and supervision teams, the CEO of Laniado Hospital, Mr. Nadav Chen, said: “This project is our flagship project in the years to come. I dare to state that this is a project with National importance. It is impossible that more than half a million residents of the State of Israel will not receive emergency medical care in the north, and God forbid, they have forced us to speed up the implementation – for the sake of the health and well-being of the residents of Netanya and the Ministry of Management and supervision of the perfect result. I remind you that the construction of a protected hospital is the first stage of the construction of a huge hospital tower, with a height of 8 floors, in addition to 3 underground floors and a protected ground floor, a tower that is an architectural gem, considering the values of the Mediterranean environment on the one hand , and the environment of the patient and the therapist on the other hand, which allow patients, staff and attendants to concentrate on one simple task – saving lives and improving quality of life. We will do everything necessary to finish With God’s help, the construction of the first phase – a protected hospital for emergency medicine that also includes an underground parking lot that becomes an emergency hospital – by the end of 2027. This is a very ambitious project, very important, and we all pray that there will never be a need for shielding!
