Medical Units

Facts and Figures

The Division of Surgery has:

• approximately 290 beds
• more than 15,000 hospitalizations a year
• more than 70,000 surgical ER visits a year
• more than 32,000 surgeries a year
• more than 100,000 visits to surgical clinics a year

The medical staff in the pre-operative clinic includes a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, and a nurse who prepare patients for surgery, providing information about the upcoming operation and performing necessary tests.

Division physicians perform a variety of operations, including complex surgeries such as kidney transplants, advanced surgeries using robotics, laparoscopy, surgery for morbid obesity, endovascular surgeries, and cochlear implant surgeries for the deaf.

Wards of the Division of Surgery:

• Urology
• Orthopedics
• ENT and Head and Neck Surgery
• Surgical Outpatient Clinic
• General Surgery A
• General Surgery B

• Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Ophthalmology Section

• Pediatric Surgery (Under Saban Pediatric Medical Center)
• Vascular Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Neurosurgery.