IBD centres in Israel
3 hospitals with a dedicated service for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Listed alphabetically by city — not ranked.
Haifa
Rambam Health Care Campus
The IBD Service of Rambam’s Institute of Gastroenterology covers outpatient clinics, surgery, rheumatology and dermatology consultation, treatment of the bone disease that can follow IBD, a nutrition service, a day treatment centre and advanced endoscopy. Around it sit three further named clinics: one for pregnancy and fertility in IBD, one for the move from paediatric to adult gastroenterology, and a nurse-run IBD clinic. The service’s clinic runs on Mondays, 09:00 to 14:00, on the first floor of the Amir building.
Jerusalem
Shaare Zedek Medical Center
The IBD Unit sits within the hospital’s Digestive Diseases Institute and works as one team of gastroenterologists, digestive-system surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, gynaecologists, nurses, a dietitian and a psychologist. Its stated aim in drug treatment is to hold the disease down over the long term, including in the most complex situations, and where surgery is needed it is bowel-sparing and sphincter-sparing. A coordinating clinical nurse is named with her own line and the unit’s mailbox, and the unit runs educational workshops and meetings for patients.
1 named clinician
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov)
The IBD Unit of the Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases treats Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and runs an unusually long list of clinics of its own: bacteriotherapy, a joint dermatology and gastroenterology clinic, a transition clinic for adolescents, a pouch clinic, a medical cannabis clinic, a nutrition clinic and a joint rheumatology and gastroenterology clinic. It is directed by a gastroenterologist whose stated expertise is inflammatory bowel disease and bacteriotherapy, and a coordinating nurse is named beside him. The unit is on the first floor of the Sourasky building, wing D.
1 named clinician
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