Herzog Hospital Fully Mobilized in Response to Jerusalem Wildfires
Herzog Hospital was on emergency alert status, ready to receive patients evacuated from other hospitals and nursing homes in the Jerusalem area impacted by the fires last week. We immediately readied our underground emergency facility with 100 beds to receive patients. We also activated our underground dialysis unit. And because Herzog maintains the largest Children’s Chronic Respiratory Care Department in Israel, the Ministry of Health requested that we prepare 20 beds to receive children requiring full respiratory support from other hospitals…