Rambam Summit 2011 - Putting Children's Health at Center Stage

HAIFA, May 30-31, 2011 -- Dr. Donna E. Shalala, President of the University of Miami, and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton, was among six exceptional individuals presented by Rambam Health Care Campus (RHCC) with the prestigious Rambam Award for 2011.
The longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history, Dr. Shalala pioneered health and welfare reform and raised child immunization rates to their highest levels. In accepting the honor, she said, "At the end of fairy tales, children are saved by the woodcutter. Grandparents are the caring adults in fairy stories, and we are the caring adults in the real world. The investment in the health and education of all kids is the passion of my career."
Also awarded this year's prize, which is conferred for outstanding contributions to medicine and humanity, were actress, film star, and author Ms. Gila Almagor Agmon; industrialist Mr. Nochi Dankner; the late philanthropist Mr. Joseph Fishman and his family; financier Mr. Harvey Krueger; and the Hon. Mrs. Laura Wolfson Townsley, Chairman of the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust.
Presentation of the prize was the high point of this year's Rambam Summit: Putting Children's Health at Center Stage. The gathering took place in the Israeli Mediterranean port city of Haifa on May 30-31, 2011, and attracted healthcare professionals, medical researchers, members of the hospital's Board of Trustees and international Boards of Directors, and Friends of Rambam from throughout Israel, Europe, and North America.
The two-day event included an in-depth Guided Tour of the Rambam campus at a time of massive hospital construction and development, presentations by Rambam's top executive and medical leadership, a Gala Dinner, and a Scientific Conference dedicated to children's healthcare.
This year's gathering fortuitously coincided with a nationwide physicians' strike. Prof. Rafi Beyar, Director and CEO of RHCC, officially opened the Summit by addressing the strike's relevance to the hospital. "Rambam is at over 100% occupancy," he said. "The physicians' strike is not only about raising doctors' salaries and increasing the number of physicians in Israel; it is about the need for an increased number of beds, too."

Rambam Health Care Campus is a 1,000-bed teaching and referral hospital, and tertiary healthcare provider for the more than two million people of Northern Israel. At the Summit's Board of Trustees Meeting, Prof. Beyar announced that the hospital has reached the halfway mark in its $310M capital campaign to support clinical and research advances and mega infrastructural growth

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