09.07.2012                      19.Tammus. 5772

Gesundheitssystem:

More beds, geriatric ERs part of state's plan to prepare Israel's hospitals for winter

Health Ministry has granted approval to allot beds for elderly patients, patients who need complex nursing care and those who require geriatric rehabilitation, in public and private institutions.

Hospitals in Holon and Nahariya will open 15-bed wards to ease the overcrowding expected in the winter, the first time in a decade the Health Ministry has decided to open new internal medicine wards in government-owned hospitals….