
The Cleveland Clinic main campus
Recently, a surgical nurse, a pain management coordinator nurse and a head nurse in one of the internal medicine departments spent several weeks at the Cleveland Clinic learning first hand from their respective colleagues. Consistently ranked by US News ∓ World Report as one of America's best hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland is a multi-specialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.
Despite the plethora of frightening headlines about crowding, lack of compassion and overburdened doctors and nurses in the public hospitals, a first-ever Health Ministry survey of 24 medical centers around the country showed relatively high satisfaction among patients.
Prof Moshe Salai, head of Orthopedics at Rabin Medical Center, told us that 30 years ago when he was just beginning his career, he was shocked to be told that there was no point in treating people over eighty years old suffering from fractures in the femoral neck.
"I'm shrinking! I'm in menopause! That's when God says,' Thank you for your children'" said actress Tovah Feldshuh, host at the May 1 American Friends of Rabin Medical Center's luncheon at Manhattan's landmark 21 Club, before handing the mic over to guest speaker Delia Ephron.