An 8,000-square-meter emergency room opened in Israel this past week at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), named after Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams, who said the ER is the largest in world.
The facility has 100 inpatient emergency beds, which can be doubled in an emergency scenario.
At the high-tech facility, patients who are well enough will check themselves in and then move to “self-triage,” where automated systems will check their temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and blood oxygen saturation. If patients are at high risk, staff will be alerted immediately.
Mobile robots will help patients find the department they need, and an app will tell them exactly what is happening with their tests, results, and treatment.
{Matzav.com Israel}
It’s also one of the best hospitals in the world: it’s staff of physicians are world class.
Ichilov is not the best in Israel and certainly not in the world. Besides, largest emergency room does not mean a better hospital. It means grabbing more patients.
Getting more doctors to empty the emergency room quicker would make a better hospital. Which emergency room in Israel would be rated the best for this?
Room size/bed count doesn’t mean anything if you’re still made to wait like a worthless dog for hours in the waiting room until someone acknowledges your existence.