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The New Sheltered Emergency Hospital

Mega project in Laniado Hospital – The construction of a huge, innovative and protected emergency medicine hospital at a cost of NIS 130 million The five-year strategic plan of Laniado Hospital has been 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. 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 ER visitors came to the department! 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, expecting significant demographic growth in the coming years . The 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. In addition, under 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 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. We will do everything necessary to finish 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, important, project and we all pray that there will never be a need for the missile protected hospital!"

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