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MARMA RADDATZ
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
Remarks on Child Care
University of Maryland, College Park
October 3, 1997
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Thank you very much. (applause) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you Neil, thank
you Professor Seefeldt, thank you Congressman Hoyer, thank you, President Kirwan As I was
sitting up here and Steny was introducing the President's family, when he introduced his wife,
President Kirwan turned to me and said you know, I met her in Junior High School. He said, she
sat behind me and she couldn't stand me and I thought, that's exactly the kind of memories I have
from Junior High School, you know, the boy you really liked at the end of the year was the one
you couldn't stand at the beginning of the year but this Junior High romance has certiunly stood
the test of time and I'm delighted to be here with your family and with the family of his great
University. I came here today for 8 number of reasons. Part of it as the President suggested, is
because I enjoyed my visit to be the Commencement Speaker so much and was very honored to
receive an Honorary Degree and also because I have followed with great interest the work that is
being done at this University in many areas but in particular, I have been impressed by the work
that has been done in the area of human development, social and public policy, and we of course,
as you know, we're blessed in the White House by having Professor Galston with us for a
number of years so I feel a real kinship with the work that is done here and the people who are
part of this great University community. So when the opportunity arose for me to come and
speak with you about an upcoming White House Conference on Child Care, I immediately seized
it. Because as the Congressman said, the President and I are hosting a White House Conference
on Child Care on October 23rd and I wanted to come and tell you why this is an issue that
deserves White House attention, deserves the attention of our Nation, one that we hope will raise
awareness of these issues around our country. Some of you may recall that last spring the
President and I hosted a Conference on Early Learning and Brain Research and we brought to the
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Nation's attention the very exciting work that has been done by researchers here at NH and
elsewhere across the country that demonstrates clearly how important it is that we take the first
three years of life because of what is happening in a child's brain and we wanted to get that
information out because although many people intuitively knew that and experts like Professor
Seefeldt taught that, there wasn't the hard data that supported that information until recently with
the kind of work that has been going on in brain research and so for a lot of reasons, this is a time
when all of us have to focus on what we best can do in our own homes and families is well as in
our larger society to insure that each child has a chance to live up to his or her promise. I saw
that in action this morning here at the Center for Young Children, what a wonderful facility you
have here, a Child Care Center that is warm and inviting with workers that are creative and
energetic and focus, a range of books and toys and crafts materials. I answered questions from
the five year olds who wanted to know, among other things, what my favorite food was, what my
favorite color was, and then a real stumper, what my favorite roller coaster was. I had to confess
to this little boy that it has been so long since I've been on a roller coaster, I couldn't remember
the names of any of the roller coasters I like but I certainly had the feeling that this is a place
where children are treasured and valued and stimulated, a place that any of us would happily stay
for juice and nap time any day. But, that Center is far too rare. Even though more and more
families are seeking child care, in fact, over half of the infants under age one are in day care,
twelve million children under the age of six, and seventeen million more, age six through
thirteen, have both parents or their only parent in the work force. The plain fact is that there is
simply not enough quality care for the children who need it. Quality child care is financially out
of reach for the hard working American families whose children deserve the best attention they
can receive. So today I come with a very straightforward proposition that this situation must
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change for the sake of our children and our future. And there are ways I want to suggest that
each of us can participate in this change. Every working parent in this room and in this country
knows how urgent the matter is, any Mom or Dad who has ever left a child with a care giver for
even a minute has felt at the gut level the importance of quality care. The stress around child
care affects families ranging from the poorest all the way to the most affluent. It is a daily
pressure for parents with preschoolers and parents with children in school who for whatever
reason cannot get home to supervise a child themselves. For more than twenty five years, I have
worked on issues affecting children and families, but in the last four and a half years I've been
privileged to travel around our country on my own and with my husband, listening and talking
with parents about their economic concerns, the issues that affect them on the streets where they
live, whether its crime or the environment, and I've heard over and over again how important
child care is. Yet, despite its importance in our everyday lives, it is not an issue that has been
dealt with effectively by our society. Now, there are many reasons for this oversight and some of
you who are students of human development and child care could recite many of thera, I'm sure.
But, I think its fair to say that until the demographics of our citizenry changed until economic
forces and women's choices led so many mothers into the work force, this was not an issue that
many people thought was serious. It was, like many issues, affecting children in the past, viewed
as a soft issue that was a disproportionate concern to women. Yet now we know it is one of the
hardest issues we face and it is an issue that had economic and social implications that go far
beyond the individual concern that each of us brings to it. Fortunately, times are changing.
Partly because of the work that many of you are doing, partly because more and more parents are
speaking out, partly because America's employers have come to understand that the rength of
their bottom lines depends on workers who are not absent, who will have their mind on their
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work when they're there, whose child care needs are being met and partly because We have
people in leadership like the President of this University, like this member of Congress before
you who represents you, and because of my husband and members of Congress and State
Legislators of both parties and many Governors who have made this a priority. All of this brings
us together in the name of a shared belief, that the children of our country deserve child care as
fine as that provided right here at this University. In fact, American children deserve the best
care in the world. Now, there are many reasons to put our childrens needs first but let me just
mention a few of them. One reason, as I've already stated is because we know that how we care
for our children is critical to their intellectual and emotional development. You know, it wasn't
so long ago and I can actually recall when I was younger and thinking about children a lot and
even pregnant with my own, that it used to be kind of a joke among a lot of fathers I knew that
they would say, well, you know let's wait until he can throw a ball or she can talk to me and then
I'll pay attention and, you know, it was the kind of attitude that had been prevalent for most of
history that you know, very young children should be cared for by their mothers, other women,
that there wasn't much for fathers to do because there wasn't much happening until a child started
to in some way assert a personality, act on his or own. Well, now we know clearly that that was
mistaken As we talked about at the White House Conference on Early Childhood Development
in April, what happens to a child in those earliest years can make all the difference for a lifetime
Just 15 years ago, even scientists thought that baby's brain structure was virtually complete at
birth. Now, neuroscience tells us that it is a work in progress and that everything we do with a
child has some kind of potential, physical influence on that rapidly forming brain. A. one
participant at the White House Conference put it, "nature and nurture don't compete, they
cooperate."
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Children's earliest experiences, the sights and sounds and smells and feelings they encounter, the
challenges they meet, they determine how their brains are wired. For those of you who know a
lot more about computers than I know, we're talking about how the brain shapes itself through
repeated experiences. The more something is repeated, the stronger the neurocircuity becomes.
And those connections in turn can be permanent. In this way, even the seemingly unimportant,
totally forgettable events of our first years are anything but trivial. It is during this time that
children learn to soothe themselves when they're upset, to empathize, to get along with others, to
become and we hope they will, human beings of the finest order.
Experiences in those first three years of life can also determine how well a child learns. When
someone speaks, reads or plays with an infant or toddler, he or she, whether it is a parent, a
grandparent, an older sibling or a care giver, is activating the connections in that child's brain that
will one day enable her to think and read and speak and solve problems herself. Now, what that
means is that subpar care, whether in the home or in a child care setting, means that a young
brain is being deprived of what it needs to live up to its natural potential. Now that is a very
serious conclusion for us to reach and now we have no more excuses. If we know that ignoring a
child, being impatient, pushing off a 8 month old, or a 16 month old, failing to invest the time
that is necessary in that two and a half year old, then we have to acknowledge, its not just a
momentary action, but it adds to the past and the present and the feelings that that child is
internalizing and it also literally affects the brain. Another reason we need to act is that we now
have evidence that child care is too often inadequate, research presents a troubling picture. A
recent national study of child care centers found that 70 percent of children are in care that is
barely adequate. Ten percent are in care that is dangerous to their health and safety. Infants and
toddlers are at the greatest risk with 40 percent in care that poses a threat to their health and well-
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being. That means that they spend hours of their days with care givers who do not follow basic
sanitary practices, who rarely cuddle, talk to or play with these infants and toddlers, n rooms that
lack toys and other materials to encourage development and in places where the ratio of children
to adults is too high for individual attention. Only twenty percent of our children are in what we
could call "high quality care," such as what I saw this morning.
A study of child care in family-based settings found equally disturbing patterns. Only 56 percent
of these programs provided adequate care, 35 percent were deemed inadequate, which means as
we now know, that the hours spent there could actually undercut a child's development and only
9 percent offered high-quality care which was defined as enhancing the growth and development
of children and even where quality care is available, it is often financially out of reach for
parents, particularly low income parents. According to the 1995 census, families earning under
$1200.00 a month pay an average of 24 to 25 percent of their income for child care. That takes a
big chunk out of a household budget but it was still not enough to ensure quality care. I asked
about the cost of the child care centers here on this Campus and there is a sliding scale which is
very important, but it still costs between $340.00 and $600.00 a month. Middle class families
are hit hard as well. Families earning up to $36,000. pay out 12 percent of their income for child
care without any guarantee that that twelve percent is buying quality. It is difficult to think of a
consumer situation in America where so many people are paying so much and too often getting
so little.
Another reason we need to act is that we now know from another study that was just completed
by the National Institute for Child Health and Development that good child care can be beneficial
to young children. Whether it is care given at home or in a day care center. Now, there's no
doubt that the most important lasting influence on any child is that child's family. But we do
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know that good, quality child care can improve a child's chances, if that child is in a difficult
family situation or enhance a child's learning and maturity if that child is in a good family
situation. And for children who come out of family situations that are not always conducive to
their well-being, bad child care can make a difficult situation even worse. Now a final reason we
need to act is because of the changing nature of the work force. We know that the Ainerican
work force has changed dramatically in the past forty years and that has meant dramatic changes
in family life. Half of all mothers with children under the age of one are working ouiside the
home and not only are more parents working, they are working longer hours. So this issue must
become a policy challenge for all of us because it clearly affects the well-being of children,
American workers, and the dynamism of our economy itself. I would imagine that many of you
who are parents and those of you who are students, not yet parents, can equally shut your eyes
and imagine or think back to one of those work family conflicts that has occurred in all of our
lives. Even though my daughter is a Freshman in College, I still remember vividly the days
when my child care arrangements fell through and I was not able to do anything about them.
Now, luckily for me those were very few because I have the kind of job where if my Haughter
were sick or if she had a special occasion that I wanted to take advantage of in her preschool or
her school years, I could arrange my schedule. That is not the case for the vast majority of
working Moms and Dads. I also have the advantage, except for two years of her life, to live in a
Governor's Mansion where there were lots of people around, that is not a common experience for
most working mothers. And so I'm very aware that my situation was unique but even with it, I
recall vividly those few times when despite my best efforts and a very supportive husband, and
all of the balancing we all do, it just all fell through and I had to scramble like crazy t) make up
for it. One time in particular when I couldn't cancel something or just not go into work or go in
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late, I had to be in court at nine o'clock and Chelsea was up all night sick and my babysitter was
sick, probably with the same thing Chelsea was sick with and my husband was out of town and
my family wasn't around and I called one of my best friends and she wasn't available, and it was
just a real terrible feeling that you get when you know that you want to be with your child and
because if work demands you can't and I was lucky enough to find a neighbor who could come in
an sit with her and I called home every chance I had a break and rushed home when ] finished to
find her you know, very well taken care of But, that is not what is available to most parents and
I know it is infinitely tougher for most women who everyday are trying to do the best: they can.
And I honestly don't know how single parents do it. And I think we ought to be very
sympathetic and very supportive of all parents but particularly of single parents. Too many
children end up because of their parents challenges, caring for themselves or being supervised by
older siblings. And we know what happens when children are left unsupervised. According to
the FBI, it is during the late afternoon that our youngest children, those who are in their pre-teens
or early teens, are most likely to experiment with drugs, to become involved with criminal gangs,
to get pregnant, to commit violence or to get into trouble in other ways.
So, when that 3 o'clock bell rings, kids are relieved but a lot of working parents panic and we
have to find a way to help parents with school age children as well. So, we know we need to act
but where do we start. Well, we can learn from models of excellent child care around our
country. They can provide the energy and expertise and inspiration for what we need to do now.
One very bright spot is the military's child care system. Our Defense Department runs the largest
child care system in the world. Taking care of the children of the parents who are in the front
lines of America. I was privileged just two days at Quantico Marine Base to be able to see first
hand what is being provided for the children of our Armed Forces and I have to say I saw what
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every parent would want for her child. A beautiful facility, well-trained workers, hijgh standards,
unannounced inspections both in the Center and in the family day care settings, a tol free
number for parents to call with their concerns, mandatory training for everyone that comes into
contact with and works with a child. And, most importantly, good wages and solid benefits and
respect for staff. Now, that has resulted in lower turnover and more experienced care givers.
Now, that wasn't always the case and I learned in a very open discussion that the military's child
care was not always what we would hold up as an example. In fact, even the Center that I visited
Quantico is brand new because the previous one had to be shut down because it didn't make the
grade a few years ago. But, the leadership of our military knows that readiness depends upon
mothers and fathers being able to do their work without worrying about whose carings for their
children. So the military made a commitment to turning its child care system around and
Quantico is now a shining example of what can be done. I want to tell two stories that I heard.
The first, from one of the Commanders there was what happens before good child care in the
military. I heard about a mother and a father who were both called to duty on an emergency
basis at the same time. I believe they were both pilots. They had to be in the air at the same
time. When that happened, they had to bring their two infants in basinettes' to the office of their
Commander, leave those basinettes' in their Commander's office with instructions for care and
feeding. Now, that beats any story about child care challenges that I've ever heard. The second
story is about, "what happens now?" That there is quality care available no matter what the
occasion. I met a Staff Sergeant, a single Dad, raising two little girls. He said that when he took
his daughters to day care the first day they cried when he dropped them off, but the second day
they cried when he came to pick them up. 1 was especially impressed by this very tough Marine
whose obviously put in his time at the weight training facility, talking with great pride about how
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he mastered pigtails and ponytails for his daughters but I think part of the reason his confidence
is so high about embarking on the rather daunting task of being a single Dad of two little girls is
because he's gotten a lot of support from the child care facility and the care giver's wao have
been there, helping him along, encouraging him, giving them advice, helping to create that
village. On a serious note also, we were privileged to have Lt. Colonel who I see n the
audience here speak about the perspective of the child care system from the perspective of a
commander. He said that his soldiers are more productive when they don't have to worry about
their children.
Now, I probably should say his Marines are more productive when they don't have to worry
about their children and the result of that is a much higher level of preparedness 24 hours a day.
Now, there are certainly differences between the military and civilian sector, but I believe that
the military's experience can serve as a for the American work place in general. When parents
don't have to come to work feeling concerned about how their children are doing, they can make
a much more positive contribution which benefits all of us. Just before I visited Quantico I was
in Miami at Baptist Hospital there that also has made a commitment to child care. I saw another
first class facility, I learned about how they have adjusted the hours because just like the military
they have 24 hour work days in a hospital and I heard a lot of detail from the Chief Executive
Officer about why it is good economic sense to provide this service. I met at the hospital with
the Board of Directors of something called, Florida's Child Care Executive Partnership, a group
of business executives appointed by Governor Lawton Chiles to address child care issues. In
creating this partnership, Florida put aside two million dollars the first year to match dollar for
dollar Corporate contributions for child care. And the Board was charged with engaging the
private sector in this effort.
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Once asked, the Florida business community responded quickly and generously and his year the
legislature and the business community are doubling their commitment so that we're taking both
public dollars and pulling them to create more affordable quality child care and because of this
effort, thousands of more working families in Florida now have access to the kind of care I saw
at Quantico, I saw at Baptist Hospital, and I saw here at the University.
Because we know that providing good child care requires community involvement. The grant
money in Florida only goes to communities where businesses have come together with child care
organizations to forge a plan of action.
And, when I ask these business leaders why they thought the partnership was successful, they
didn't hesitate to answer in very business like terms. They said it was good for the bottom line.
They said they didn't have to spend as much time recruiting new workers who left because of
child care problems. They didn't have to spend as much money recruiting new workers who had
to be trained. They didn't have to worry about absenteeism which had been dramatically. Now,
that was also the experience of many other businesses with whom I have met and I just find it
being repeated over and over again.
So, because I find the partnership concept so impressive, I'm very pleased to announce today that
the Department of Health and Human Services is awarding a half million dollar grant to the
families and work institute, the National Governors' Association, and the Finance Project, to
assist states in developing these partnerships with the private sector. And, the Present has earlier
this year, the military, the Department of Defense, to work with the private sector, to take the
experience they've gained, their guidelines which have been carefully written and bring those to
the table to discuss with more child care centers and family day care providers what can be done
to use money like that available in Florida to make models that can be replicated. Because all
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sectors of society have to be involved, businesses, schools, police departments, religious
organizations, libraries, citizens' associations, the Federal, the State, and the local governments.
We hope that the White House Conference will be a catalyst to bringing many of these sectors
together. I also hope that at the White House Conference we will discuss ways that could assist
parents who wish to make the choice to stay at home with their children more econoinically
feasible because its not just creating good child care centers and family day care centers outside
the home, how do we create real choices that are available to working families so that they in the
privacy of their family can make a decision that it is economically feasible for one parent to be
there for their children.
It is important to remember that this Conference is a starting point. I hope that it marks the
beginning of National discussion and action. And I hope that its focus on the three keys areas
will spark individual ideas around the country. Now, the three key areas are the lack of
affordable child care, quality concerns, and the need for school age care. We have already
discussed affordability and we've made some progress. The President took some steps to address
this need. For starters, the expanded Federal funding for child care. In fact, since 1993, child
care funding has risen by approximately 68 percent and it now reaches more than one million
children through subsidies which is critical if they're going to have financial access to quality
care. And I'm encouraged too that in the last four years more states are committing their own
resources to help working people pay for quality child care.
In the balanced budget agreement, the $500 child tax credit
will go to 27 million families with 45 million children under the age of 17. Now foi the typical
American family with 2 kids, this child tax credit will mean 1,000 more dollars in take home pay
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per year. That is especially important for low-income families who are also going to benefit from
this child tax credit. Thirteen million children from families with incomes below $30,000 will
receive the credit. That's a lot of young teachers, police officers, farmers, nurses and others who will
have some extra income to put into whatever their family decides, but certainly one of the great
expenses is improving child care. Also through the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, more
working families have had a cut in their taxes which has on average meant an increase in their
income of over a thousand dollars. So, there have been real steps forward so that there's more child
care available, it's subsidized, and there's more of an opportunity for families with children to take
advantage of these programs. The President has also made child care an essential component of
welfare reform. He insisted that welfare reform include spending for child care because we're
putting a lot more women, single women with children, into the work force. So it will be increased
by nearly $4 billion over the next 6 years. But that is still not enough and we have a long way to go
to explore how better to enable parents to meet their child care costs. Quality is the second key
issue. We have to do more to support child care providers. We have not done a good job of lifting
up the profession that is so important in taking care of our children and matching that with increased
income and job opportunities and benefits. I've been to a lot of child care centers and I've met many,
many terrific people running and working in them but their salaries are woefully low and many leave
the profession because it's not one that enables them to support themselves and their own families.
I remember one provider who told me with tears in her eyes that with the birth of her second child,
she had to leave taking care of children which is what she loved to do more than anything and go to
work in an office because she needed to make more income. So we have to do all we can to
encourage and support child care workers to get training, to build their skills and increase their
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knowledge which will demand higher salaries and benefits. We have to find the very best people
to take the jobs of caring for our children because parents should not have to worry whether their
child is safe at day care and the vase majority of teachers are absolutely superb in caring for their
children, but there a few who we need to make sure do not go into the classrooms of our day care
centers. And we also have to help parents do a better job of searching out good child care. In survey
after survey when parents are asked, they really don't know what they're looking for They don't
know what kind of equipment should be there; they don't know what kind of training they would be
demanding for the child care workers. Too often parents are better informed about what kind of car
to buy than what kind of child care to choose. So we have to help parents become more informed
consumers to create that demand that will absolutely say to the market place, we must have higher
quality for the money we're paying One of the interesting results of a lot of the research that has
been done recently is that good quality child care is generally but now always more expensive than
inadequate child care. And in the middle, there's a lot of child care that could be vastly improved
with some good training and better guidance there would make a big difference for the money that
is being paid. Now I hope that we will continue to focus on safeguarding the health and safety of
children in our system around the country. Certainly the President earmarked money going to the
states for child care for quality improvements. And this summer he proposed a new rule requiring
that child care programs that receive Federal dollars make sure that all children are immunized. And
in 1995 the administration launched the Healthy Child Care America Campaign which promotes
partnerships between child care centers and health agencies. That initiative now in 46 states teaches
child care centers how to create safe healthy environments. A lot of times when we do the ese surveys
and we get the results and people go in and say, this isn't sanitary; this is not appropriate, the child
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care workers don't know that. Nobody's told them. They're not sure about what they're supposed
to be doing. So through the Healthy Child Care America Campaign, we intend to do a better job of
educating child care workers.
And, finally, school age care. A critical issue for millions of working American families.
I have visited some excellent school age child care programs. The other day in Quantico, I visited
one of their schools and saw what was available for the children there, but most children and their
parents do not yet have access to good school age child care. Places where the children can do
homework or play sports or learn to play a musical instrument Home Alone might have been a
hit movie but it is not a good script for real childrens' lives and we need to move to make sure more
children can safely and productively spend those after school hours in a place like i: school or a
library or some other setting that is good for them.
I'd like to close with one thought and then invite your questions. We are privileged to live
in a time of tremendous bounty in our country. We are at peace. Our economy is booming. Social
problems that for years held us back are receding. The crime rate is down, the teenage pregnancy
rate is down. On so many fronts we're making progress together. At a time such as this presents
a special opportunity free from crisis we can do work that might not be possible in stormier
moments. So we should use this good fortune to make a difference, to lay the ground work so that
the generations of children to come will be able themselves to build a country that has so many
opportunities and take advantage of the blessings that we all have. So turning to child care is not
just something that is a nice issue to talk about. It is as the President calls it, the next Great Frontier
of Public Policy, to build up and strengthen our families, to give them more support so they can do
their jobs both at home and in the work place will help up chart that Frontier not only SQ that we are
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led to a better world for the children I saw today, but for generations of American children to come.
And I invite all of you to be part in taking action to make sure that happens.
Thank you all very much. (applause) I'm glad there were babies here. That's a wonderful
reminder of why this is so important. Well, as I understand what we're going to do now. We have
two people with microphones in the isles. If anybody has any questions, they should line up behind
the gentleman here and the young woman there and take a turn, but if not, that's all right, too. I don't
mind at all.
Hi.
Hi. (Mrs. Clinton)
I have a question. I'm am employee on campus. I've been a secretary here for fifteen years.
I have a four year-old son. I'm a single mother. I wanted to get my son to go to school here at the
nice center. It would cost me over $500 a month and my salary is $25,000 a year. So how can that
help employees here on campus? And I'm not the only single mother that has had a problem with
this.
Mrs. Clinton - And that is one of the reasons why I mentioned that we have td do more to
provide more slots in child care for working parents like yourself and we have to help subsidize
quality child care because you are a perfect example of the problem that I'm trying to illustrate. You
make $25,000 a year
...
With no child support.
Mrs. Clinton - with no child support. So that's your total income.
Correct!
Mrs. Clinton - And that's before taxes
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Correct! And I live at home with my parents.
Mrs. Clinton - And you're doing all you can to keep expenses down living at home and good
quality child care such as we see here at the university would cost $500 a month, which is $6,000
a year, which is a 25 percent of your before tax income. I mean that is exactly the problem that I'm
talking about. So what have you done for child care?
Well, I went to a Catholic school in the area and they gave me a scholarship for j 1st this year.
So I pay $200 a month to have him in full-time pre-K. But if I did not have that and ( didn't have
my parents, I would probably have to quit my job and go on welfare because who would watch my
child during the day and how could I afford that and live in an apartment.
Mrs. Clinton - Well, that is the problem. I could not more vividly describe ii. And, so, I
hope that some the proposals that will be discussed at the White House Conference, yo If child will
be in school before we probably get much of the changes that I would like to see happen, but then
you'll need, you know, after school care which is another part of this debate. But I hope that some
of these proposals will focus exactly on what you're talking about. We need more subsidies for
working families, particularly single parents. If we are going to have a policy in our country of
ending welfare and expecting everyone to work, we have to do more to support those parents with
children who are trying to do the best they can by working. And I want to thank you for what you're
doing. (applause)
Hi, I'm the Director at Galludette University Child Development Center and have worked
with children with disabilities for the last 20 some years in child care and I'm curious what you all
are suggesting the focus and direction more and more children with special needs are now in child
care centers because of Special Ed laws and I'm curious where you all stand on that.
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Mrs. Clinton - Well, we stand with you as an educator of children with specials needs and
with parents of children with special needs because it is more expensive to care for a child with
special needs. And, again, parents face the same difficulties, only more so because of the additional
costs. And it's not just financial costs. It's also emotional and psychological costs that is much
higher when you have a child, whether it's your only child, or one of a number of your children with
special needs that you need help caring for and also for many children, you want to integrate them
as early as possible into as typical a life as you can possibly arrange for them and that requires, often
times, you know special transportation, special equipment, whether it's wheel chairs of other kinds
of medical equipment, it often requires, in your case, with deaf children, specially trained caregivers.
So this is an issue that is a part of our overall issue of quality and affordability. I am old enough to
I keep saying that - I think that's because I'm going to turn fifty this month. I'm old enough, I'm
nearly a half century old. Think about it for all you young people. It's hard to believe it happens.
(laughter) So I can remember (applause) many, many years ago when I worked for the Childrens
Defense Fund and when I was involved in other activities concerning children, going into places
where children with disabilities were literally just left on the floor all day. I cannot tell you some
of the places I have seen. Now that was twenty-five years ago. I haven't seen places like that
recently, but I'm not invited to those places in my current position and I know that there are lots of
excellent facilities for special needs children and I know that there are some that are really very
inadequate. So this is a big part of what we're going to be talking about. Yes.
Thanks for coming. I'm a student here and I would like to know how does the European
child care or World child care compare to the United States and are you planning to have any World
input on planning for American child care.
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Mrs. Clinton That's an excellent question. I want to thank you for asking that because often
times we don't learn about what works in other places and there are some very good models in
Europe of National Commitment to Child Care. In fact when I was at the child care center here at
the university, I learned this morning that the facility is modelled on facilities in northein Italy. The
university architects went and visited because of the great room with the classrooms off the side and
it's really something beautiful to behold. But there are some very good programs in a number of
European countries that I think bear some attention. I have personally visited child care centers in
France and in a few other countries, particularly in France and Denmark which were very impressive
to me because there was a national commitment to the provision of quality affordable child care that
went beyond political ideology. I remember when I visited France, I went to various cities and
looked at their child care facilities and whether I was in a city that was run by a very conservative
mayor and city council or one run by the socialists party, I didn't see any difference. And I asked
a very conservative mayor in a French city how he could explain this national consensus about
spending both national and local dollars to build excellent facilities, make them affordable, and he
said but they're all our children. You know we are creating future French citizens and he said it as
only a Frenchman could say it with a lot of flourish. It was like I asking such a ridiculos question.
How could politics have anything to do with taking care of one's children. They fight about other
things and even in the recent efforts to reign in the budgets in a lot of the European countries to make
them more economically competitive, their caring for children has not been an issue of debate
between the political factions in the countries that I'm aware of. They are going to remair committed
to universal health care for all of their people and for adequate education and child care for preschool
and I think it's a very important National commitment and I think we should look to she if we can
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learn anything from that. I write a little bit about the French system in my book because I was
impressed by it. Yes.
Being college students, most of us don't recognize there's a problem in child care but also
being very involved in community service, what can we do as college students?
Mrs. Clinton - That's also a very good question and I think community service is a critical
key to being able to provide enough voluntary manpower to help out in a lot of the centers that are
particularly serving lower income families. And I know that a number of young people both through
university community services and through Americore have signed up to work on things like
America Reads and mentoring and tutoring children and I think looking for opportunities to work
with even younger children to give them the attention that they need would be a very good way of
working with at least one family, one child. Maybe showing a mom or a dad how to read to a child
with just by you doing it, modelling it for them, playing, teaching some of those silly games and
songs that you were taught- all of which help build the brain. I mean all those little things that we
used to do all make a difference. And you know there's a lot of evidence now that you know young
women, young mothers when they speak to children in those little high voices we all adopt when we
see little kids. Like oh, oh Michael, you're so cute. You know our voices just go up like, you know,
full register. That has an impact The child really can hear it. And young men and fathers who are
more physical with babies and, you know, play games with them, that also stimulates the brain
development. So there's a lot that both young men and women could do in giving of their time to
work with some of these kids, especially as I say in lower income family areas where there may be
too many adults taking care, too few adults taking care of too many children.
Good afternoon. My name is Cecilia Johnson and I'm a family child care provider and I have
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been for twenty years. My question is of the eight parents that I have who are single mothers, one
who just recently came off of welfare, the biggest problem that they undertake is getting benefits
from the jobs in which they work to help take care of their children, especially medical benefits.
And with the rising costs of child care and the costs of taking care of your child, I would like to
know how do we plan to help our single mothers who can't get benefits from their jobs to help take
care of their children.
Mrs. Clinton - Thank you for asking that and thank you for being a family day care provider.
Until we have some program that takes care of all of our childrens' health care needs, we will not
solve this problem completely, but in the Balanced Budget Agreement, we made a big step forward
as a Nation. Because through the commitment of $24 billion that was raised by raising the tax on
tobacco, we will be able to provide health care for half the children who are currently uninsured,
many of whom fall into the category you're talking about. Now a lot of mothers getting off of
welfare should be very sure they're not still eligible for Medicaid because they often are. We have
3 million children in America who are eligible for Medicaid but their mothers and fathers don't know
they are so they are left to the whims of the emergency room or not being taking care of So making
sure your eight moms check to see whether they're available and eligible is the first thing. Secondly,
this new money - this $24 billion will expand coverage in every state. So making sure they know
where to go to find out how to sign up their child for health care I think is the best advice you could
give them and to help them, you know, know where to contact somebody and to try to find out. But
we still have too many Americans who do not get health insurance through their work, are not
eligible for any kind of government assistance, and they just fall into this large pool of 40 million
uninsured Americans, about 11 million of whom are children. And so we just have to keep making
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sure everybody who's covered with Medicaid and the new Child Health Program are covered, then
we need to see what else we're going to do to cover the remaining children and adults. So please
give them that information.
Mrs. Clinton, I hate to do this but your staff has suggested that you maybe should take only
one more question.
Mrs. Clinton - All right.
Well, actually instead of a question I wanted to issue an invitation to you to come visit me
at the Childrens Developmental Clinic on this campus. Come back one more time this Saturday and
see a new program or different program from what we've been talking about today, which is
undergraduate and faculty members volunteering their time on Saturdays to play with the children,
provide role models for the children, and to deal with those hours of concern that you mention for
late afternoon hours, excuse me, the week days when they are unsupervised. And the special thing
about our program is that it's for children with physical disabilities, who have self-esteem issues and
who get isolated at schools and also children from disadvantaged neighbo hoods, from
disadvantaged backgrounds. I work with children from the Cools Spring Elementar / School who
are Hispanic mostly and who have parents who are very disengaged from education and if you ever
have the time to come visit us on Saturday, I'd love to show you what can happen when people
volunteer for free.
expenses
Mrs. Clinton - Well, the young man who asked the question what he might do, you need to
sign him up. (laughter & applause) Well, unfortunately I can't be there this Saturday laughter) but
I'm very glad you stood up to invite me and did such a good job describing what you do because I
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think that's the kind of a model that more people need to hear about That there is some hing literally
for everybody to do. Whether it's in our own homes spending more time with our own children,
maybe the children next door or down the block or if somebody else in your family who doesn't have
the time and is working too hard and needs a helping hand, or whether it's being involved
professionally as so many of you are as child care providers at a center or in a home! We all have
something we can do and volunteering to help support parents and child care providers is a very
important way of not only providing a service but for each of us to know firsthand what you know
about what a difference it can make in a child's life. And so I hope that you'll be engaged in this
issue and thinking about it and sharing ideas and here on this campus try to reach out o everybody,
you know, whether it's the young people who are at this center or the young women who stood up
who is working here as a secretary already who needs some support, needs a helping hand. I bet if
everybody on this campus just looked around at the people you already know, you'd find that there's
something you can do to help relieve some of the burdens of taking care of children, especially for
single parents. I really want to stress that. It is so important that we support them and give them the
kind of attention and volunteer activities that will enable them to know they're being good moms and
dads because that's what everybody wants to feel. And if we could get that idea across, I think a lot
of our other problems in this country would take care of themselves.
Thank you very much. (applause)
President Kirwan --Mrs. Clinton I hope that you can sense the very strong and special feelings of
support there are on this campus for you and the work that you're doing and also sense how honored
we are to have you at College Park. We know that during school breaks, there will 1 kely be some
colors of another school prominent in the White House (laughter) and we think you need to be able
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to retaliate with the colors of one of your schools. So we have a little gift we want to give to your
that we hope you'll wear when Chelsea is home.
Mrs. Clinton - Absolutely! (applause)
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From "Violence to Tolerance"
A national campaign on violence against and by youth -
"Creating a Path from Violence to Dialogue and Social Understanding"
One of the main goals of this campaign is to develop national awareness of the
issues of violence both against and between children and youngsters, with special
emphasis on the phenomenon of dating violence. We also hope to arouse the
various sectors of Israeli society to an increased awareness of the possibility of
taking action to limit and decrease the scope and intensity of this unprecedented
violence.
An expected outcome of this campaign is the furtherance and adoption of more
preventive programs within the social, educational and therapeutic frameworks that
care for Youth.
To advance this campaign, an inter-organisational forum was established, including
all the related Government ministries, the I.D.F., Elem, the J.D.C., Ashalim
association and the National Youth Movement Council. The campaign is also
supported by business corporations and private foundations.
Objectives.
1. To initiate a keen, intensive public debate on the issue of increasing violence
among and against children and adolescents in Israel.
2. To reinforce and re-emphasise the need of implementing educational programs
within the school system that focus on violence reduction.
3. To develop community based preventive measures that will aid adolescents to
resolve their individual and group conflicts by non-violent means.
4. To increase cultural sensitivity to issues of youth violence.
5. To pool the resources of all sectors of the community, organisational,
Government, business, academic etc. to combat violence.
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The campaign comprises 5 major elements:
1. A wide -ranging publicity campaign. This will include T.V flashes, billboards
and posters, stickers for every child to wear, radio slogans, street corner
petitions against violence etc.
2. Parallel to the publicity campaign, there will be educational programs
throughout the whole school system in Israel.
3. There will be a conference organised by Elem and Tel Aviv University in
tandem with an ongoing exhibition on violence against and by youth in Israel.
The conference will include a moot court confronting Israeli society and the
Israeli Governing System on their responsibility for violence amongst and
against children and youth. Mrs. Hillary Clinton will make the closing speech
of the Conference.
4. All the children of the country, and all the youth movements will be mobilised to
campaign against violence on the day of the conference. All the children of
Israel will sign a declaration committing themselves to avoid physical and verbal
violence; to report cases of violence or imminent violence and to look for signs
of undue stress in their surroundings.
As a result of the campaign we plan to introduce a new program for schools
that focuses on reducing dating violence among Israeli Teenagers.
The Program's major goal is to decrease dating violence amongst adolescents and
guide them in dealing with issues of couple relations and sexuality, by emphasizing
equality, respect and cooperation. This educational Program is intended for high
school students studying in grades 8 to 11 from various cultural backgrounds. It is
planned to include 50 schools in the program.
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Elem's National Network of Youth Counseling Centers
and Outreach Van Programs
To be presented to Mrs. Hillary Clinton during her visit to Israel,
November 10, 1999
Two of the major programs operated by "Elem - Youth in Distress in Israel" are
the Youth Counseling and Information Centers and the Outreach Van Program. The
Counseling Centers provide guidance and help for youth within a Coffee-Shop
setting while the Outreach Vans operate in various cities in Israel and are aimed at
the rescue of street children.
Program Descriptions:
The "National Network of Youth Counseling and Information Centers" is a
project that operates Counseling and Information Centers for youth located
throughout Israel. The Centers provide teenagers. whoever they are, regardless of
their cultural background, socio-economic condition and/or level of functioning;
with information, a receptive ear and counseling in subjects that preoccupy
contemporary adolescents such as employment. army service, dating and
sexuality, S.T.D., drug abuse, leisure time activities, etc. The rationale guiding
the project is the creation of an accepted, normative, stigma-free place, where
initial preventive work will be available for teenagers at risk suffering from
hardship or in crisis. The aim is to prevent their deterioration to marginal
behavior, violence, crime and drug abuse. ELEM, the Ashalim association,
J.D.C., in collaboration with other NGOs' and various Government agencies
joined forces for this purpose. They undertook to pool resources earmarked for
initiating and developing the program in ten locations within Israel during 1999.
The Outreach Vans Program: The initial concept for the Outreach Van
Program was based on a similar project implemented in New York City by
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Covenant House. However, this model of intervention was developed further and
elaborated into an innovative and multi-dimensional approach towards helping
street children. The Israeli model is unique in that it encompasses not only a
solution to the children's basic needs while on the streets, but also, a new
intervention program providing overall guidance and long term solutions. This
Program utilizes the "Never Let Go" approach for working with unattached,
abused and exploited children who find great difficulty in trusting any of the
existing aid services.
Visit Plan:
A 45 minute visit and program demonstration is planned to take place at the
"Kfar-Saba Youth Center". The Center also encompasses a large public area for
the Van Program presentation.
The visit will be conducted in an informal manner and will take place as follows:
gathering at the Center's entrance:
1. Opening remarks:
Mrs. Nava Barak, President of Elem.
Mr. Izik Vald, Mayer of Kfar Saba
Mrs. Ann Bialkin, President, Elem America
Mr. Steve Shweger, Director General JDC -Israel
Dr. Mike Naftali, Executive Director, Elem - will host and guide the visit.
2. Live simulation of how the Outreach Vans operate, by Van volunteers and
staff.
3. Within the Center: Two personal stories will be related by teenage girls
residing in Elem Hostels.
4. Visit to the Counseling and Information Center's facility. The visit will
include an informal conversation with the Center youth workers, volunteers and
youth benefiting from Center services (including immigrant youth from
Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union).
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patients, and provide the finest
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SCMCI is located on the
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SCMCI was built following a
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care organization, with 15
health system and its national
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clinics. A teaching hospital
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Medicine, SCMCI is supported
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Why a Children's Hospital?
Children respond differently
than adults to sickness and injury.
They become seriously ill more
quickly; they need child-size
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Children also have very different
emotional, psychological and social
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In all fields of pediatrics,
SCMCI is setting a new standard of
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medical services
Our highly trained staff - working
with state-of-the-art equipment and a
for children - all
unique, multidisciplinary approach -
have introduced pediatric specialties
under one roof.
not previously available in Israel.
Surgery
All types of general and specialized
pediatric surgery are performed in our
7 state-of-the-art operating theaters,
including organ and bone marrow
transplantations. SCMCI has Israel's
only department of pediatric
anesthesiology.
Intensive Care
Here are some of our special
The 95% survival rate is equalled
Inpatient services:
by only a handful of hospitals world-
wide. We handle the full range of
Hematology-Oncology
life-threatening cases, and offer
Over 60% of Israeli children with
Israel's first Pediatric Burn Center,
cancer and serious blood diseases
as well as advanced Neonatal and
are treated in this national center.
Cardiac Intensive Care Units.
Our cure rate for childhood leukemia
is nearly 75%, and with our Bone
Psychiatric & Adolescent Medicine
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As throughout the world, a growing
more children will be cured.
number of young people - especially
teenagers - are afflicted with suicidal
behavior, eating disorders such as
anorexia nervosa, and other related
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Since opening in 1992,
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such as pancreatic islet cell
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This hospital is
A Happy Ch' d
/ond rful. We saw
Heals Better
pecial architecture,
happy environment.
A hospital can be a
Brightly colored, softly lit and
frightening place for a child.
carpeted departments create a
t is inspiring."-
Pain, separation from family, an
sense of friendly calm. Centrally.
unfamiliar physical environment
located nurse stations promote a
zer Welzman,
and a cast of strangers. create
feeling of security: just reach out,
untold fear and stress in a child.
and we're there,
resident of the
And a fearful and tense child is a lot
harder to heal.
Facilities Focusing on the Family
State of Israel
Children who feel safe and calm
Private and semi-private
recover more quickly; when parents
patient rooms offer all the comforts:
are close by and actively involved,
convertible chairs for parents to sit
treatment is more successful.
in by day and sleep in at night; full
bath and shower; television and
telephone; and even specially
designed linens and pajamas - in
short, everything to make child and
family as comfortable as possible.
President
Departments and clinics also feature
Exer Welsmon
visits vktim of
spacious and well-equipped play and
terror attack in
SCMCI's Bum Unit
computer rooms and parents' lounges.
All this goes a long way to
Calm and Secure Atmosphere
helping children and families feel -
and heal - better.
Every detail has been
designed with the child and family
SCMCI has:
in mind, creating warm, appealing
224 beds
surroundings that minimize stress
7 floors
and fear. Comfortable facilities for
360,000 square feet
parents encourage family involvement.
Separate MRI building
Our sun-drenched atrium sets the
with family restaurant
tone for visitors to the hospital: a
5 private apartments for
welcoming gift shop, glass elevators
parents, at nominal cost
and colorful reception cubicles create
Nearby hostel for
an inviting, friendly environment.
families (in development)
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At SCMCI, we believe
Treating The
a sick child needs -
Whole Child
and deserves - more
T'Ialim School Education Program
and in play rooms located in every
than just excellent
department - supervise activities
medical treatment.
Critically and chronically
adapted to the child's age and
ill children face long and repeated
medical condition. Libraries and
Our psychological,
absences from school. At SCMCI,
computer games diversify
specially trained teachers and
recreation; frequent parties and
educational and
tutors, working with the patient's
entertainment programs help keep
own class teachers, enable the
the children smiling.
developmental
child to keep up with schoolwork.
With special computer rooms and
support services
innovative software, the child can
even participate - in real time - in
provide "whole child"
classroom lessons taking place in
his own school.
care unique In Israel
and the
Middle East.
Changing the Equation
Fear of the unknown = stress = pain
We make great efforts in preparing
children and their families for
unknown, frightening procedures
Child Life Program
such as surgery and cardiac
catheterization. These programs, carried
Play and recreation are
out with love, patience and a zealous
critical to the sick child's
respect for the child's autonomy
development and healing,
and dignity, change the equation to:
alleviate stress and fear and help
pass long hours of hospitalization.
Knowledge = calm = healing
Our staff of teachers, play specialists
and volunteers - working bedside
This is the SCMCI way.
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Research for a Better
Future
Ongoing research is
crucial to maintaining clinical
excellence. Innovative research
is conducted in many fields of
pediatrics, including joint
projects with leading researche.
abroad. More than half of our
doctors - the highest percentag
of any Israeli hospital - are staff
lecturers in Tel Aviv University's
Sackler School of Medicine.
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Reach ng Out,
SCMCI, My great
Building Bridges
thanks for the care
you gave my son
Our mission goes beyond the
hospital's walls. We reach out - to our
Despite our being
Arab neighbors, to new immigrants, to
community clinics, even to developing
Arabs from the West
nations. These bridges go even further -
into Asia, Africa, eastern Europe and
Pediatric nurses
Bank, we were
Latin America. SCMCI hosts special
from developing
countries
training courses for pediatric nurses
receive advanced
from dozens of countries throughout
training in SCMCI
received with warmth
the developing world.
& respect
Improving Community Medicine
of
Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel has strong ties with
course
the community and is committed to
Violinist
improving children's medicine
lezhok Perlman:
|oyed
throughout Israel. A network of
Living proof for
SCMCI patients
innovative satellite pediatric clinics
that handloaps
devoted
can be overcome
has been established, including the
first in an Arab city - the Children's
care, which were
Health Center in Taibe. These clinics,
Absorbing Aliya
run by senior SCMCI doctors,
given to us without
introduce new standards of health
We play an important role
care into the community.
any regard for religion
in absorbing new immigrants,
particularly from eastern Europe and
or race - and would
the former Soviet Union. More than
50 immigrant doctors have taken
have made any Jewish
part in SCMCI's pediatric residency
program; more than 100 nurses have
received advanced training to help
Violinist
family proud The
base stem
them find employment in SCMCI
puts a smile
on SCMCI
feeling is wonderful."
and other Israeli medical facilities;
patient
hundreds of immigrants were trained
Yussuf Ibrahlm (father
and employed in constructing SCMCI,
and dozens more work in various
of Samir, 9) Ramallah
hospital services.
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Turning A Dream
Into Reality
Many people have pulled together to realize the SCMCI dream.
First and foremost are Helen and Irving Schneider, whose
vision, generosity and devotion have made SCMCI what It is - a
treasure for the State of Israel and the Middle East. Our thanks
go to them, and to the many individuals and organizations the
world over who have supported SCMCI.
Still, there is much more to be done.
Healing sick children is a noble, Ilfe-giving endeavor. We Invite
you to be part of it. As our sages tell us, "He who saves one
soul is as one who has saved an entire world."
For more Information,
please contact:
IN THE U.S.:
M
Medical Development
for Israel, Inc, (MD!)
130 E. 59 St., Suite 1203
New York, N.Y. 10022
Tel.: (212) 759-3370
Fax: (212) 759-0120
IN ISRAEL:
Schneider Children's
Medical Center of Israel
14 Kaplan St, Petach Tikva
Tel, (03) 925-3770
Fax: (03) 924-7515
The Public Council
for SCMCI
14 Kaplan St. Petach Tlkva
Tel. (03) 925-3742
Fax: (03) 925-3855
909
018
IS
Our Children Foundation
14 Kaplah St. Petach Tikva
Tel : (03) 925-3802
Fax: (03) 921-0885
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Dear Friend,
would like to share with you some thoughts
Nava Barok
regarding a special project now under construction at,
President, Istoel Friends of RMC
Chair, Board for the WCHC
Rabin Medical Center (RMC). The new Women's
Comprehensive Health Center (WCHC) Is one of the most
exciting and unique ventures in Israel's health care today,
and I am proud to be part of the team of dedicated
individuals who have committed themselves
to making this dream a reality.
The WCHC will lead the way in bringing the highest
quality of preventive, diagnostic, medical and surgìcal
care- to the women of Israel throughout each stage of
their lives. With the entire spectrum of women's health
services housed under one roof, patients will benefit from
the expertise of a highly-qualified myltidisciplinary
team of professionals. The Women's Comprehensive
Health Center truly symbolizes, life and health for the
women of this region well into the next millennium.
We are grateful to Helen and Irving Schnelder whose
vision and generosity have enabled the realization of this
project, Since its Inception, however, there has been an
Increased demand on health services due to the merger
of the Beilinson and Golda hospitals into Rabin Medical
Center. To meet these growing needs, the WCHC must
continue to expand and develop.
In the hope that you will find this endeavor as important
and worthwhile as we do, I look forward to working with
you and those who have already pledged their support
on behalf of the WCHC.
Best Wishes
Nava Barak-
Nava Barak
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A
LIFETIME OF COMPREHENSIVE CARE
W
hen it comes to a woman's health and well-being, we want to deliver the best. With
this goal in mind, the Rabin Medical Center is in the process of developing the new Women's
Comprehensive Health Center. a state-of-the-art facility which meets the unique health
needs of women - all under one roof.
At the WCHC we are committed to providing the most advanced and extensive services
available, reaching far beyond traditional areas of childbirth and routine gynecology. We
offer a complete cycle of care during every stage of a woman's life - from adolescent
gynecology to menopause appraisal and beyond. Our total approach to wellness means
women will benefit from first-rate diagnostic breast health services, fertility clinics, family
planning, genetic counseling, osteoporosis treatment, psychological consultation, fitness
and nutrition management, and more.
Of course, we are also proud of our ultra-modern maternity facllities, which Include new
labor-defivery-recovery suites, an advanced ultrasound and fetal monitoring unit and an
excellent high-risk pregnancy unit.
In every sense, from puberty on, the women of Israel will have one place to which
they can turn for all their health care and wellness needs.
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IMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION
Today, sclentific and medical advances have made it possible
for women to lead healthier, more energetic lives. The strong
emphasis on education and prevention at the WCHC provides
women with the right tools to make Informed health care choices.
The new Center will deliver lectures and Informational sessions
on a broad spectrum of women's health topics. Our physicians,
surgeons and medical staff will reach out to women, offering
specialized programs in breast health, nutrition and weight
management, osteoporosis counseling, treatment for victims
of sexual abuse and alternative medicine options.
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NNOVATIVE RESEARCH FOR A HEALTHIER TOMORROW
Gutting-edge research is also an integral part of the WCHC mission. Our
physicians contribu ite to the introduction of new medical technologies and advanced
treatment modalities for the benefit of all women,
!
WCHC research activities range from discovering new ways to prevent HPV viruses
causing cervical cancer to ground-breaking techniques for in vi tro fertilization.
We have developed a process to freeze ovarian tissue from women undergoing
potentially damaging chemotherapy, thus making It possible for them to have
children later In llfe,
In addition; our physicians have been instrumental in gulding the development
of the ARGUS Fetal Distress Detection System, an exciting advance in chlldbirth
technology that enables nurses at a central station to monitor bables'
vital signs prior to delivery. This system will greatly decrease
the chance of complications during birth as well as help
prevent potential brain damage to newly born infants.
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A
FOUNDATION OF MEDICAL AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Rabin Medical Center, Israel's largest health care facility, houses many of the top
medical and surgical departments in the country and is a leading academic Institution,
affillated with the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine. RMC's national outreach
program of community clinics. enables patients to receive the best ongoing care near
their homes.
We are also fortunate in having adjacent to our campus the Felsensteln Medical Research
Center, with its 50 laboratorles dedicated to applled medical research and the Schneider
Children's Medical Center of Israel, the only tertiary care hospital In the Middle East devoted
to infants, children and adolescents.
For all of these reasons, Rabln Medical Center is the ideal setting for the Women's
Comprehensive Health Center. With our wealth of talented physicians, latest medical
technologies and strong support from friends around the world, we feel confident that
together, we will make a significant contribution to the health care and well-being of Israeli
women for generations to come.
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MEDICAL SERVICES - PRESENT & FUTURE
Andrology - Sperm Bank
Breast Health Services
Clinical and Basic Research
Colposcopy and Vulvar Clinic
Day Care
Diabetes In Pregnancy
Early Detection of Cancer - Breast. Cervix, Ovary
Endoscopic Surgery
Family Planning
Female Infertility
Genetic Counseling
Gynecological Oncology
Gynecology
High-Rlsk Pregnancy
In Vitro Fertilization and Micro Manipulation
Male Infertility
Menopause
Obstetrical and Gynecological Ultrasound
Obstetrics
Osteoporosis
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Prenatal Screening
Psycho-Social Services
Sexual Dysfunction
LIORA KOLFON LIORA KOLTON MARKETING UDIN enotography,
Urogynecology
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Rabin Medical Center
39 Jabotinsky St.
Petach Tikva 49100. stael
Tel:972-3-937-6001
Fax 972-3-923-2223
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KUPAT HOLIM
There ANOT 77700 INP
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Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israol
Dear Mr. Schneider,
" Thank you in the name of all SCMCI children.
You have helped more children than you will ever know ! "
Ayal Beer
These words were said by Ayal Beer to Mr. Irving Schneider on stage, during the Adler Prize for
Child Welfare Ceremony, when he presented Mr. Irving Schneider with a framed picture of
hospitalized children holding letters making the sentence: WE LOVE YOU !! V.
Mr. Irving Schneider received the Adler Prize for Child Welfare, in May 1998, for his significant
contribution accompanied by a rare and unique personal involvement, which provided the means to
promote the care and treatment of children and youth in need.
Aval Beer in a letter to Mr. Schneider: " My name is Ayal Beer and I am 13 years old. I live in
Rehovot, Israel. A year ago I was diagnosed with Leukemia A.M.I. and throughout the year I was
faced with very difficult treatments that involved a lot of side effects. In the beginning I was
hospitalized and it was very depressing. Luckily, I was transferred to Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel. Thanks to the great staff of the SCMCI, I am now past my last protocol and a Bone
Marrow Transplant I hope to begin school in two weeks and resume my former life."
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NEW YORK
The
ewish Week
THE EVENTY JF YORK ST. DECEMBER 12,
COEXISTENCE
In Accord For Kids
Chabad emissaries will make their rounds
len Schncider, is the country's only tertiary pc-
at a building in Petach Tikvah during
diatric center.
Chanukah, passing out holiday goodies to
There was some concern about intergroup
young Jews and Arabs. At the end of Ramadan
relations when the hospital opened in 1992.
the Muslim monthlong fast period that starts
But its unofficial molto is "The mothers of
Dec.30, officials from a fundamentalist Islamic
Israel will make it work." says Shalit who was
Organization will come to the same
in New York recently.
building, where they will distribute
Patient's mothers - and fathers
gifls to Arab and Jewish children.
- have endorsed the hospital's no
The building is the Schneider
distinctions policy, he says. Its staff
Children's Medical Center of Is-
of teachers for inpatient children in-
rael, and its new director says good
cludes two Arabs. Atab physicians
relations between Jews and Arabs
and nurses work there. All signs are
are the norm there.
in Hebrew and Arabic. "It's fully in-
Children from both groups room
tegrated," Shalit says.
and play together, and their parents
Dr. Itamar Shalit
He points to a haredi father who
provide moral support to each other
helped an Arab family arrange dialy-
says .Itamar Shalit. Some 20 percent to 30
sis treatments for their ill child, to the Arab fa-
percent of the patients in the 225-bed hospital
ther who consoled the parents of an Australian
usually are Arabs from Isracl proper, the Pales-
athlete injured in the bridge collapse during the
tinian territories and neighboring Arab coun-
opening cercmonies of this summer's Maccabiah
tries. A "bridge to peace," Shalit calls it.
Games, and to the Arab family who offered their
He says concern for children outweighs par-
8-year old son's organs to Arabs and Jews after
ent's political differences. "They sit together.
being accidentally shot earlier this month by Is-
Usually they discuss the medical care of the
raeli soldiers in Bethlehem.
kids." Shalit says.
"We have a unique relationship with the
While most Israeli hospitals provide care to
Palestinian Authority," Shalit says. "This is one
everyone, the Petach-Tikva institution, named
example of coexistence without any problems.
for New York philanthropists Irving and He-
Steve Lipman
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MEDICINE WITHOUT BORDERS
Ambassador of Jordan visits a Jordanian patient
KUPAT HOLIM
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INTERE prr ANISTS 1270
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Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
Schnelder children's Medical Center of Israel
Hamzah Nofell, a 10 year old Jordanian citizen, is being treated at Schneider Children's Medical Center
of Israel for cancer. "This is a great country and Hamzah receives excellent medical treatment", says his
father Said with passion, "for me Israel and SCMCI are the best places in the world." Hamzah's health
problems started last January, explains Said: "when we suddenly saw him limping. I took him to a
physician in Amman, who sent us to perform an MRI, a very large tumor was diagnosed in his thighbone.
Already the next day I was in London with Hamzah at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. After they
performed a biopsy it was decided that he should have chemotherapy and surgery, we should remain in
London for at least 6 months." Said began to look for an alternative, closer to Jordan and his family. He
called Gila Abulafiah, a business relation in Israel, who received all the child's medical reports and
showed them to Dr. Ian Cohen, Acting Director Department of Hematology-Oncology at SCMCI. Dr.
Cohen examined the data and accepted the child for treatment. "The tumor was diagnosed at Schneider
Children's Medical Center of Israel by a new procedure", explains Dr. Ian Cohen, "we are the first
department in Israel who uses this procedure and Hamzah is the second child in which we could prove
that the diagnosis diagnosed abroad was incorrect." Until today two children from Lebanon who
underwent open-heart surgery were treated at SCMCI, as well as one child from Irbid, Jordan who suffers
from CF and comes regular to SCMCI for follow-up. Hamzah is therefore the fourth child from an Arab
country treated at SCMCI, the realization of Irving Schneider's dream. Time and again Mr. Schneider said
that with the inauguration of SCMCI he hopes it will be able to serve all children of the region, and
slowly his vision becomes a reality.
H.E. Mr. Omar Rifai, Ambassador of Jordan in Israel, paid a visit to SCMCI on July 7ᵗʰ, 1998 and met
also with Hamzah. Their meeting was very friendly and the Ambassador hugged Hamzah for a long time.
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AN EXCITING COLLABORATION BETWEEN
SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
AND THE NEW SHANGHAI CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
A two-way exchange of senior staff members was initiated between the two institutions,
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) and Shanghai Children's Medical
Center (SCMC). This challenging experience was made possible through the vision and
support of PROJECT HOPE, Mr. Irving Schneider, MASHAV (Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs) and many others.
Dr. Itamar Shalit, Director of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel hosted Dr. Chen
Shu-Bao, Director of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Dr. Chen Zhi-Xing, Vice
President of Shanghai Second Medical University and Mr. Robert J. Burastero, Project Hope
Regional Director for Asia & the Middle East, during their preliminary visit to SCMCI on
January 3, 1998.
On March 23, 1998 three experts from SCMCI made a first successful 10-day visit as
consultants to Shanghai Children's Medical Center. Professor Mark Mimouni (Director OPD,
ER and the Observation Room), Ms. Ilana Weinraub (Nursing, Director of Outpatient) and
Ms. Tammy Ben-Ron (Director of Administration OPD). SCMCI consultants examined the
services of outpatient, emergency and day-care departments and made recommendations as to
the operation of these departments at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.
On July 19, 1998 the second team of experts from SCMCI visited SCMC: Prof. Michael Zer
(Director Department of Surgery), Dr. Elhanan Bar-On (Head Orthopedics) and Ms. Nili
Zelikovsky (Head Nurse OR).
Itamar Shalit, M.D., M.P.A., Director
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
visit Shanghai Children's Medical Center
United
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This delegation spent 10 days training their Chinese colleagues laying ground of what they
hope will be the beginning of a long-term academic exchange between Pediatric Surgery
departments at SCMCI and Shanghai Children's Medical Center.
The third team of SCMCI experts, Ms. Nili Arbel (Director of Physiotherapy) and Ms. Orna
Ze'evi (Senior Physiotherapist) were at SCMCI in September 1998. During their stay they
spent 10 days in Shanghai training SCMC staff on Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in
children. Physiotherapy does not exist as a separate discipline in China. The health
professionals were extremely impressed by the miraculous result in-patients at SCMCI, after
even short sessions of PT, as demonstrated by the Israeli experts.
Dr. Itamar Shalit visited Shanghai Children's Medical Center from September 9 to September
14 to lecture on Infection Control.
Dr. Yeming Wu (Surgeon Department of Pediatric Surgery), Dr. Zhuoming Xu (Fellow in
Pediatric ICU), Dr. Bochang Chen (Attending Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Orthope-
dics), Dr. Jun Ye (Attending Physician, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism) were
the first Chinese experts who received a 3-month training at Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel from October 25, 1998 till January 21, 1999.
The extraordinary occasion of the inauguration of the new Shanghai Children's Medical
Center took place on July 1. 1998, with the participation of Mr. Bill Clinton, President of the
United States of America, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Irving Schneider.
The beginning of a wonderful friendship:
Dr. Itamar Shalit, Director SCMCI
visits Shaughai Children's Medical Center
September, 1998
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The Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) - a 224 beds, 7 floor
facility - is located in Petah-Tikva, and is part of the Kupat Holim Clalit health care
organization, which is the largest in HMO in Israel.
A teaching hospital affiliated with Tel-Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine,
SCMCI is supported in North America by Medical Development for Israel, and in Israel
by the Public Council for SCMCI and "Yeladim Shelanu" Foundation.
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SCMCI was built following a comprehensive study of Israel's health system and its national
pediatric medical needs. The study, conducted by an international commission of experts,
concluded that there is an urgent need for a modern tertiary care hospital to serve all children
of Israel and the Middle East. Our highly trained staff - working with state-of-the-art
equipment and a unique, multidisciplinary approach - have introduced pediatric specialties not
previously available in Israel.
Our mission goes beyond the hospital's walls. We reach out - to our Arab neighbors, to new
immigrants, to community clinic, even to developing nations. These bridges go even further -
into Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. SCMCI hosts special training courses
for pediatric nurses from dozens of countries throughout the developing world.
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel has strong ties with the community and is
committed to improving children's medicine throughout Israel. A network of innovative
satellite pediatric clinics has been established, including the first in an Arab city - the
Children's Health Center in Taibe. These clinics, run by senior SCMCI doctors, introduce new
standards of health care into the community.
From the moment you arrive at the front pavilion and are drawn into the beautiful, light-filled
enlivened by colorful windbanners, it is clear that an unparalleled center of hope and care was
created. Every detail of the hospital -- from the overarching architectural concept to the
coordinating color schemes and cheerfully patterned linens and pajamas - has been carefully
and fully thought out. Everything bears the mark of hands and hearts.
Each floor is new evidence of creativity and thoughtfulness:³t the inclusion of both indoor and
outdoor play/waiting spaces, the fully equipped computer room sponsored by the Ministry of
Education, the color coordination of paint and floor number, the high quality of all the visible
construction materials and the appealing, well-stocked gift shop. The central atrium is a
comforting and a stimulating core of the building, which affirms the viewer's sense of
connection to the time of day and to the changes of the seasons.
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THE KING'S PRIVATE
KUPAT HOLIM
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Schneider Children's Medical Conter of Isruel
MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
Dr. Yousef Goussous, Private Physician of H.M. King Houssein, and Dr. Adel Shureideh, Director
King Hussein Medical Center in Jordan, participated in the Fourth International Symposium on
Otology and Audiology that took place on Sunday May 24th, 1998 at Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel. The Symposium, sponsored by the Canada International Scientific Exchange
Program (CISEPO), contributed to the broadening of professional networks between
Israel-Jordan-Palestine for the early detection of hearing loss in infants and children and for its
assessment and treatment. CISEPO, headed by Professor Arnold Noyek from the Mount Sinai
Hospital, University of Toronto, is designed to promote education as well as to encourage
cooperation among medical, scientific and educational colleagues throughout the region. The first
of these collaborative programs took place at the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan.
The programs and methods established during both conferences, will be distributed throughout the
Middle East, and enhance the broadening of professional networks in the region and will contribute
to the dialogue and peacebuilding among the regional participants.
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KUPAT HOLIM
INTERE news TTTTU BIB
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Schnelder Children's Medical Center of Israel
From Heart to Heart
Four infants, each 7 to 17 days old, are now hospitalized at Schneider Children's Medical Center of
Israel following complicate arterial switch surgery which all four underwent within a period of less
than one week. This is a rare and most likely once in a lifetime event.
All four were born with similar congenital heart defects - transposition of the arteries. In this defect
the aorta emerges from the right ventricle of the heart and the pulmonary artery from the left
ventricle, a condition which is fatal. Thus, the fournewborns had to be operated on in the first days
of their lives, The surgery was performed by Prof. Bernardo Vidne at SCMCI.
One of the four infants had been born with two additional and most complicated heart defects - a
disconnected norta in the thorax and a large defect of the ventricular septum. All defects were
corrected during the transposition surgeries.
One baby is from the southern region in Israel, one is from the north, one is from a Druze village on
the Golan Heights and one is from a Druze village in the Haifa area.
The condition of all four babies is good and they are recuperating from the complicated operation.
Dr. Ovadiah Dagan, Director of Cardiac ICU at SCMCI reports that in the course of the last four
years around 1000 pediatric heart surgeries were performed, of which 15% involved babies younger
than one-month-old - to correct various complicated heart defects. The mortality rate of all
pediatric cardiac surgical procedures at SCMCI is approximately 5%. This rate is exceptionally
low, not only for Israel but also in comparison with the finest hospitals in the world.
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SURGEONS AT SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
EXCRETED AN ENORMOUS TUMOR - AND SAVED A 6 MONTHS OLD BABY'S LIFE
"My baby is reborn," the happy father said after the successful surgery
In a dramatic attempt to save the life of a 6 months old baby boy, a complex and unique operation
to excrete a liver tumor was successfully performed at Schneider Children's Medical Center in
September 1998. This tumor was diagnosed in Gilad Levy from Haifa two months ago. His treating
physicians in a hospital in the northern part of the country were planning to transfer him to Belgium
for operation, however, very soon the tumor increased enormously in size. Gilad had an unusual
complication of high abdominal pressure that caused an obstruction of the blood flow to the veins,
from the lower part of the body to the heart, thus endangering his life. Gilad was transferred
urgently in critical condition to ICU at Schneider Children's Medical Center, where a most
dramatic procedure was performed to save his life. After his condition was stabilized he was
transferred to OR where the second complex procedure began - the excretion of this enormous
tumor. During a 10-hour operation, headed by Dr. Eytan Mor, Director Liver Transplant Unit at the
Rabin Medical Center, the huge tumor was excreted entirely, weighing more than 1 kg. "My baby is
reborn" says the father, Shlomo Levy. "There are no words to express our gratitude to the medical
staff who treated him. It was like in the movies - they saved him quick and efficiently." The
broadcaster in the "Good Morning Israel" broadcast explained: "This case is mentioned in the
medical handbooks as a very rare one, At Schneider Children's Medical Center a tumor weighing
more than 1 kg was excreted out of the small body of 6 months old Gilad. No additional case like
these ever occurred in Israel, and little Gilad's name will be registered in medical handbooks as
"a very rare medical case that ended in a miracle."
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JORDANIAN BABY BOY, SUFFERING
KUPAT HOLIM
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SCMCI FOR TREATMENT
Nine-month-old Fares Halalsheh arrived from Irbid, Jordan for treatment at the
Kathy and Lee Graub Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Schneider Children's
Medical Center of Israel
Fares Halalsheh was being treated at the CF Center in Irbid and referred by his physician for a
second opinion to the SCMCI Kathy and Lee Graub Cystic Fibrosis Center, headed by Dr. Hannah
Blau. The nine-month-old baby boy is the third child in his family to suffer from this hereditary
disease. Twins were born to his parents for whom CF was fatal - one died after two days and the
other at the age of one-and-a-half months.
Until recently, there was no indication that CF was prevalent in Arab countries, however, it is a
rather common disease among Israeli Arabs. In Irbid, Jordan, there is a center that treats
approximately 60 CF patients. The director of the Center in Irbid is familiar with the advanced
multidisciplinary work performed at the SCMCI CF Center and referred Fares there for a second
opinion. While at SCMCI, the family had the opportunity to receive guidance from a whole team of
specialists in the disease including doctors, nurses, a clinical nutritionist, physiotherapist, and
researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Laboratory Services.
The mother who is an archeologist, and the father who works at the Department of Finance at the
Yarmouk University in Irbid, will continue to bring Fares for check-up at SCMCL
It seems that this is the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between the CF Center in Jordan and
SCMCI.
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patients, and provide the finest
medical care in a warm, friendly
SCMCI is located on the
(SCMCI) - the only tertiary care
hospital in the Middle East
environment.
campus of Beilinson Medical
exclusively for infants, children
Center in Petach Tikva, and is
and adolescents.
SCMCI was built following a
part of the Kupat Holim health
comprehensive study of Israel's
care organization, with 15
health system and its national
hospitals and 1,300 community
pediatric medical needs. The study,
clinics. A teaching hospital
conducted by an international
affiliated with Tel Aviv
commission of experts, concluded
University's Sackler School of
that there is an urgent need for a
Medicine, SCMCI is supported
modern tertiary care hospital to
in North America by Medical
serve all children of Israel and the
Development for Israel, and in
Middle East.
Israel by the Public Council
for SCMCI and "Our Children"
Foundation.
Why a Children's Hospital?
Children respond differently
than adults to sickness and injury.
They become seriously ill more
quickly; they need child-size
breathing masks and child-size
dosages of medicine and
anesthesia.
Children also have very different
emotional, psychological and social
needs than adults.
In Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel, these challenges
are met by a dedicated staff of
pediatric specialists who
understand the unique needs and
SC CI has
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revolutionized
Children's Medicine
pediatric care In
Isr el by offering
In all fields of pediatrics,
SCMCI is setting a new standard of
the full range of
excellence.
medical services
Our highly trained staff - working
with state-of-the-art equipment and a
for children - all
unique, multidisciplinary approach -
have introduced pediatric specialties
u
er one roof.
not previously available in Israel.
Surgery
All types of general and specialized
pediatric surgery are performed in our
7 state-of-the-art operating theaters,
including organ and bone marrow
transplantations. SCMCI has Israel's
only department of pediatric
anesthesiology.
Intensive Care
Here are some of our special
The 95% survival rate is equalled
Inpatient services:
by only a handful of hospitals world-
wide. We handle the full range of
Hematology-Oncology
life-threatening cases, and offer
Over 60% of Israeli children with
Israel's first Pediatric Burn Center,
cancer and serious blood diseases
as well as advanced Neonatal and
are treated in this national center.
Cardiac Intensive Care Units.
Our cure rate for childhood leukemia
is nearly 75%, and with our Bone
Psychiatric & Adolescent Medicine
Marrow Transplantation Unit, even
As throughout the world, a growing
more children will be cured.
number of young people - especially
teenagers - are afflicted with suicidal
behavior, eating disorders such as
anorexia nervosa, and other related
conditions. New approaches are being
developed to care for these problems.
2>3
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Complex Surgery Close
to Home
Dr The expertise of our
internationally-trained surgical
staff is making the trauma -
and huge cost - of going
abroad for surgery a thing of
the past. Many complex opera-
tions that once could only
be done in the U.S. of
Europe are now being success-
fully performed at SCMCI.
Did You Know?
Since opening in 1992,
our services have been in great
demand. A few examples, on
an annual basis:
Over 10,000 hospitalization days
Over 100,000 outpatient visits
num that
Over 35,000 emergency visits
Nearly 10,000 surgical
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More than 60% of the physical
Trauma
area of Schneider Children's
Israel's only Pediatric Trauma Unit is
overnight
Medical Center of Israel is devoted
located in the Emergency Medicine
to outpatient, emergency and
Department - setting a new standard
spitalization.
diagnostic services, many of which
of care and saving lives everyday.
are unique to Israel and the region.
A
our patients
Cardiology
enjoy the most
Israel's largest center for diagnosis
and treatment of congenital and
advanced diagnostic
acquired heart illness in children.
Our state-of-the-art catheterization
services available.
unit treats over 400 children each
year, saving many the need for
complex, traumatic and costly
open-heart surgery.
Juvenlle Diabetes
Radiology and Imaging
Nearly 80% of all Israeli children
All advanced modalities are offered
with juvenile diabetes are treated
in Israel's leading service for children,
in this national center, a leader in
including MRI (Magnetic Resonance
developing new approaches to
Imaging), CT, ultrasound, x-ray, and
preventing and curing diabetes,
nuclear medicine.
such as pancreatic islet cell
transplantation.
Clinical Laboratories
Israel's most extensive service for
children. Hematology, cytogenetics,
bone marrow, endocrinology and
other sophisticated clinical
laboratories provide the precise
information crucial to accurate
diagnosis and successful treatment.
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Comprenensive Care
Cáre at Schneider Children's
Medical Center of Israel exténds
to virtually all areas of children's
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Adolescent Medicine
Anesthesiology
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Burn Unit
Cardiac Intensive Care
Cardiac Surgery
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
General Surgery
General Pediatrics
Hernatology-Oncology
Neonatal Intensive Care
Pediatric Intensive Care
Specialized Surgery
Outpatient Services
Allergy
Cardiology & Catheterization Unit
Child Development
Cystic Fibrosis
Dentistry
Dermatology
Eating Disorders
Ear, Nose: & Throat
Endocrinology
Enuresis Program
Gastroenterology
Genetics
immunology
Juvenile Diabetes
Medical Day-Care
Mental Health
Nephrology & Dialysis
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
Perioperative Clinic
Physiotherapy
Pulmonology
Emergency and
Diagnostic Services
Bone Marrow Laboratory
Clinical Laboratories
Emergency Unit
Hematology Laboratory
Neurophysiology
Oncologic-Cytogenetic Laboratory
Radiology & Imaging
Trauma Unit
Support Services
Child Life Program
Clinical Nutrition
Community Outreach
Health Education
"Our Children" Gift Shop
Patient Library
Social Work
"Tlalim" School Program
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"This hospital is
A Happy Ch d
wonderful. We saw
Heals Better
special architecture,
a happy environment.
A hospital can be a
Brightly colored, softly lit and
frightening place for a child.
carpeted departments create a
It is inspiring." -
Pain, separation from family, an
sense of friendly calm. Centrally.
unfamiliar physical environment
located nurse stations promote a
Ezer Welzman,
and a cast of strangers. create
feeling of security: just reach out,
untold fear and stress in a child.
and we're there.
President of the
And a fearful and tense child is a lot
harder to heal.
Facilities Focusing on the Family
State of Israel
Children who feel safe and calm
Private and semi-private
recover more quickly; when parents
patient rooms offer all the comforts:
are close by and actively involved,
convertible chairs for parents to sit
treatment is more successful.
in by day and sleep in at night; full
bath and shower; television and
telephone; and even specially
designed linens and pajamas - in
short, everything to make child and
family as comfortable as possible.
President
Departments and clinics also feature
Exer Welsmon
visits vktim of
spacious and well-equipped play and
terror attack in
SCMCI's Burn Unit
computer rooms and parents' lounges.
All this goes a long way to
Calm and Secure Atmosphere
helping children and families feel -
and heal - better.
Every detail has been
designed with the child and family
SCMCI has:
in mind, creating warm, appealing
224 beds
surroundings that minimize stress
7 floors
and fear. Comfortable facilities for
360,000 square feet
parents encourage family involvement.
Separate MRI building
Our sun-drenched atrium sets the
with family restaurant
tone for visitors to the hospital: a
5 private apartments for
welcoming gift shop, glass elevators
parents, at nominal cost
and colorful reception cubicles create
Nearby hostel for
an inviting, friendly environment.
families (in development)
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a sick child needs -
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and deserves - more
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just excellent
T'Ialim School Education Program
and in play rooms located in every
department - supervise activities
medical treatment.
Critically and chronically
adapted to the child's age and
ill children face long and repeated
medical condition. Libraries and
Our psychological,
absences from school. At SCMCI,
computer games diversify
specially trained teachers and
recreation; frequent parties and
educational and
tutors, working with the patient's
entertainment programs help keep
own class teachers, enable the
the children smiling.
d
elopmental
child to keep up with schoolwork.
With special computer rooms and
support services
innovative software, the child can
even participate - in real time - in
provide "whole child"
classroom lessons taking place in
his own school.
care unique In Israel
and the
ddle East.
Changing the Equation
Fear of the unknown = stress = pain
We make great efforts in preparing
children and their families for
unknown, frightening procedures
Child Life Program
such as surgery and cardiac
catheterization. These programs, carried
Play and recreation are
out with love, patience and a zealous
critical to the sick child's
respect for the child's autonomy
development and healing,
and dignity, change the equation to:
alleviate stress and fear and help
pass long hours of hospitalization.
Knowledge = calm = healing
Our staff of teachers, play specialists
and volunteers - working bedside
This is the SCMCI way.
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Research for a Better
Future
Ongoing research is
crucial to maintaining clinical
excellence. Innovative research
is conducted in many fields of
pediatrics, including joint
projects with leading researche.
abroad. More than half of our
doctors - the highest percentag
of any Israeli hospital - are staff
lecturers in Tel Aviv University's
Sackler School of Medicine.
"To the Staff of
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Reach ng Out,
SC CI, My great
Building Bridges
thanks for the care
you gave my son
Our mission goes beyond the
hospital's walls. We reach out - to our
Despite our being
Arab neighbors, to new immigrants, to
community clinics, even to developing
Arabs from the West
nations. These bridges go even further -
into Asia, Africa, eastern Europe and
Pediatric nurses
B
k, we were
Latin America. SCMCI hosts special
from developing
countries
training courses for pediatric nurses
receive advanced
from dozens of countries throughout
training in SCMCI
received with warmth
the developing world.
& respect
Improving Community Medicine
and of
Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel has strong ties with
course
the community and is committed to
Violinist
improving children's medicine
Itzhak Perimon:
enjoyed
throughout Israel. A network of
Living proof for
SCMCI patients
innovative satellite pediatric clinics
that handlcaps
devoted
can be overcome
has been established, including the
first in an Arab city - the Children's
care, which were
Health Center in Taibe. These clinics,
Absorbing Aliya
run by senior SCMCI doctors,
given to us without
introduce new standards of health
We play an important role
care into the community.
any regard for religion
in absorbing new immigrants,
particularly from eastern Europe and
or race - and would
the former Soviet Union. More than
50 immigrant doctors have taken
have made any Jewlsh
part in SCMCI's pediatric residency
program; more than 100 nurses have
family proud The
received advanced training to help
Viollnist
bone Starn
them find employment in SCMCI
puts a
on SCMCI
1 eling Is wonderful."
and other Israeli medical facilities;
patient
hundreds of immigrants were trained
Yussuf Ibrahlm (father
and employed in constructing SCMCI,
and dozens more work in various
of Samir, 9) Ramallah
hospital services.
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Turning A Dream
Into Reality
Many people have pulled together to realize the SCMCI dream.
First and foremost are Helen and Irving Schneider, whose
vision, generosity and devotion have made SCMCI what it is - a
treasure for the State of Israel and the Middle East. Our thanks
go to them, and to the many individuals and organizations the
world over who have supported SCMCI.
Still, there is much more to be done.
Healing sick children Is a noble, Ilfe-giving endeavor. We Invite
you to be part of it. As our sages tell us, "He who saves one
soul is as one who has saved an entire world."
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For more Information,
please contact:
IN THE U.S.:
M
Medical Development
for Israel, Inc, (MD!)
130 E. 59 St., Suite 1203
New York, N.Y. 10022
Tel.: (212) 759-3370
Fax: (212) 759-0120
IN ISRAEL:
Schneider Children's
Medical Center of Israel
14 Kaplan St, Petach Tikva
Tel,: (03) 925-3770
Fax: (03) 924-7515
The Public Council
for SCMCI
14 Kaplan St., Petach Tikva
Tel (03) 925-3742
Fax: (03) 925-3855 -
909
Our Children Foundation
14 Kaplan St., Petach Tikva
Tel. : (03) 925-3802
Fax: (03) 921-0885
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Dear Friend,
would like to share with you some thoughts
Nava Barak
President, Isroel Friends of RMC
regarding a special project now under construction at,
Chair, Board for the WCHC
Rabin Medical Center (RMC). The new Women's
Comprehensive Health Center (WCHC) Is one of the most
exciting and unique ventures in Israel's health care today,
and I am proud to be part of the team of dedicated
individuals who have committed themselves
to making this dream a reality.
The WCHC will lead the way in bringing the highest
quality of prevéntive, diagnostic, medical and surgìcal
care to the women of Israel throughout each stage of
their lives. With the entire spectrum of women's health
services housed under one roof, patients will benefit from
the expertise of a highly-qualified myltidisclplinary
team of professionals. The Women's Comprehensive
Health Center truly symbolizes, life and health for the
women of this region well Into the next millennium.
We are grateful to Helen and Irving Schneider whose
vision and generosity have enabled the realization of this
project, Since its Inception, however, there has been an
Increased demand on health services due to the merger
of the Beilinson and Golda hospitals into Rabin Medical
Center. To meet these growing needs, the WCHC must
continue to expand and develop.
In the hope that you will find this endeavor as Important
and worthwhile as we do, I look forward to working with
you and those who have already pledged their support
on behalf of the WCHC.
Best Wishes
Nava Barak
Nava Barak
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LIFETIME OF COMPREHENSIVE CARE
W
hen it comes to a woman's health and well-being, we want to deliver the best. With
this goal in mind, the Rabin Medical Center is in the process of developing the new Women's
Comprehensive Health Center. a state-of-the-art facility which meets the unique health
needs of women - all under one roof.
At the WCHC we are committed to providing the most advanced and extensive services
available, reaching far beyond traditional areas of childbirth and routine gynecology, We
offer a complete cycle of care during every stage of a woman's life - from adolescent
gynecology to menopause appraisal and beyond. Our total approach to wellness means
women will benefit from first-rate diagnostic breast health services, fertility cllnics, family
planning, genetic counseling, osteoporosis treatment. psychological consultation, fitness
and nutrition management, and more.
Of course, we are also proud of our ultra-modern maternity facilities, which Include new
labor-delivery-recovery suites, an advanced ultrasound and fetal monitoring unit and an
excellent high-risk pregnancy unit.
In every sense, from puberty on, the women of Israel will have one place to which
they can turn for all their health care and wellness needs.
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MPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION
Today, sclentific and medical advances have made it possible
for women to lead healthier, more energetic lives. The strong
emphasis on education and prevention at the WCHC provides
women with the right tools to make Informed health care cholces.
The new Center will deliver lectures and Informational sessions
on a broad spectrum of women's health topics. Our physicians,
surgeons and medical staff will reach out to women, offering
specialized programs in breast health, nutrition and weight
management, osteoporosis counseling, treatment for victims
of sexual abuse and alternative medicine options.
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NNOVATIVE RESEARCH FOR A HEALTHIER TOMORROW
utting-edge research is also an integral part of the WCHC mission. Our
physicians contribut to the introduction of new medical technologies and advanced
treatment modalities for the benefit of all women,
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WCHC research activities range from discovering new ways to prevent HPV viruses
causing cervical cancer to ground-breaking techniques for in vi tro fertillzation.
We have developed a process to freeze ovarian tissue from women undergoing
potentially damaging chemotherapy, thus making It possible for them to have
children later In life,
In addition, our physicians have been instrumental in guiding the development
of the ARGUS Fetal Distress Detection System, an exciting advance in chlldbirth
technology that enables nurses at a central station to monitor bables'
vital signs prior to delivery. This system will greatly decrease
the chance of complications during birth as well as help
prevent potential brain damage to newly born infants.
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FOUNDATION OF MEDICAL AND ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Rabin Medical Center, Israel's largest health care facility, houses many of the top
medical and surgical departments in the country and is a leading academic Institution,
affillated with the Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine. RMC's national outreach
program of community clinics. enables patients to receive the best ongoing care near
their homes.
We are also fortunate in having adjacent to our campus the Felsenstein Medical Research
Center, with its 50 laboratories dedicated to applied medical research and the Schneider
Children's Medical Center of Israel, the only tertiary care hospital In the Middle East devoted
to Infants, children and adolescents.
For all of these reasons, Rabin Medical Center is the ideal setting for the Women's
Comprehensive Health Center. With our wealth of talented physicians, latest medical
technologies and strong support from friends around the world, we feel confident that
together, we will make a significant contribution to the health care and well-being of Israeli
women for generations to come.
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MEDICAL SERVICES - PRESENT & FUTURE
Andrology - Sperm Bank
Breast Health Services
Clinical and Basic Research
Colposcopy and Vulvar Clinic
Day Care
Diabetes In Pregnancy
Early Detection of Cancer - Breast, Cervix, Ovary
Endoscopic Surgery
Family Planning
Female Infertility
Genetic Counseling
Gynecological Oncology
Gynecology
High-Risk Pregnancy
In Vitro Fertillzation and Micro Manipulation
Male Infertility
Menopause
Obstetrical and Gynecological Ultrasound
Obstetrics
Osteoporosis
Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Prenatal Screening
Psycho-Social Services
Sexual Dysfunction
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Dear Mr. Schneider,
"Thank you in the name of all SCMCI children.
You have helped more children than you will ever know ! "
Ayal Beer
These words were said by Ayal Beer to Mr. Irving Schneider on stage, during the Adler Prize for
Child Welfare Ceremony, when he presented Mr. Irving Schneider with a framed picture of
hospitalized children holding letters making the sentence: WE LOVE YOU !!
V.
Mr. Irving Schneider received the Adler Prize for Child Welfare, in May 1998, for his significant
contribution accompanied by a rare and unique personal involvement, which provided the means to
promote the care and treatment of children and youth in need.
Aval Beer in a letter to Mr. Schneider: My name is Ayal Beer and I am 13 years old. I live in
Rehovot, Israel. A year ago I was diagnosed with Leukemia A.M.I. and throughout the year I was
faced with very difficult treatments that involved a lot of side effects. In the beginning I was
hospitalized and it was very depressing. Luckily, I was transferred to Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel. Thanks to the great staff of the SCMCI, I am now past my last protocol and a Bone
Marrow Transplant. I hope to begin school in two weeks and resume my former life."
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THE EVENTY OF GFENTER NEM YORK ST. agr DECEMBER 12, 1957 UNIT
COEXISTENCE
In Accord For Kids
Chabad emissaries will make their rounds
len Schncider, is the country's only tertiary pc-
at a building in Petach Tikvah during
diatric center.
Chanukah, passing out holiday goodies to
There was some concern about intergroup
young Jews and Arabs. At the end of Ramadan
relations when the hospital opened in 1992.
the Muslim monthlong fast period that starts
But its unofficial molto is "The mothers of
Dec.30, officials from a fundamentalist Islamic
Israel will make it work," says Shalit who was
Organization will come to the same
in New York recently.
building, where they will distribute
Patient's mothers - and fathers
gifls to Arab and Jewish children.
- have endorsed the hospital's no
The building is the Schncider
distinctions policy, he says. Its staff
Children's Medical Center of Is-
of teachers for inpatient children in-
rael, and its new director says good
cludes two Arabs. Arab physicians
relations between Jews and Arabs
and nurses work there. All signs are
are the norm there.
in Hebrew and Arabic. "It's fully in-
Children from both groups room
tegrated," Shalit says.
and play together, and their parents
Dr. Itamar Shalit
He points to a haredi father who
provide moral support to each other
helped an Arab family arrange dialy-
says r.Itamar Shalit. Some 20 percent to 30
sis treatments for their ill child, to the Arab fa-
percent of the patients in the 225-bed hospital
ther who consoled the parents of an Australian
usually are Arabs from Isracl proper, the Pales-
athlete injured in the bridge collapse during the
tinian territories and neighboring Arab coun-
opening cercmonies of this summer's Maccabiah
tries. A "bridge to peace," Shalit calls it.
Games, and to the Arab family who offered their
He says concern for children outweighs par-
8-year old son's organs to Arabs and Jews after
ent's political differences. "They sit together.
being accidentally shot earlier this month by Is-
Usually they discuss the medical care of the
raeli soldiers in Bethlehem.
kids." Shalit says.
"We have a unique relationship with the
While most Israeli hospitals provide care to
Palestinian Authority," Shalit says. "This is one
everyone, the Petach-Tikva institution, named
example of coexistence without any problems.
for New York philanthropists Irving and He-
Steve Lipman
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MEDICINE WITHOUT BORDERS
Ambassador of Jordan visits a Jordanian patient
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Hamzah Nofell, a 10 year old Jordanian citizen, is being treated at Schneider Children's Medical Center
of Israel for cancer. "This is a great country and Hamzah receives excellent medical treatment", says his
father Said with passion, "for me Israel and SCMCI are the best places in the world." Hamzah's health
problems started last January, explains Said: "when we suddenly saw him limping. I took him to a
physician in Amman, who sent us to perform an MRI, a very large tumor was diagnosed in his thighbone.
Already the next day I was in London with Hamzah at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. After they
performed a biopsy it was decided that he should have chemotherapy and surgery, we should remain in
London for at least 6 months." Said began to look for an alternative, closer to Jordan and his family. He
called Gila Abulafiah, a business relation in Israel, who received all the child's medical reports and
showed them to Dr. Ian Cohen, Acting Director Department of Hematology-Oncology at SCMCI. Dr.
Cohen examined the data and accepted the child for treatment. "The turnor was diagnosed at Schneider
Children's Medical Center of Israel by a new procedure", explains Dr. Ian Cohen, "we are the first
department in Israel who uses this procedure and Hamzah is the second child in which we could prove
that the diagnosis diagnosed abroad was incorrect." Until today two children from Lebanon who
underwent open-heart surgery were treated at SCMCI, as well as one child from Irbid, Jordan who suffers
from CF and comes regular to SCMCI for follow-up. Hamzah is therefore the fourth child from an Arab
country treated at SCMCI, the realization of Irving Schneider's dream. Time and again Mr. Schneider said
that with the inauguration of SCMCI he hopes it will be able to serve all children of the region, and
slowly his vision becomes a reality.
H.E. Mr. Omar Rifai, Ambassador of Jordan in Israel, paid a visit to SCMCI on July 7ᵗʰ, 1998 and met
also with Hamzah. Their meeting was very friendly and the Ambassador hugged Hamzah for a long time.
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AN EXCITING COLLABORATION BETWEEN
SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
AND THE NEW SHANGHAI CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER
A two-way exchange of senior staff members was initiated between the two institutions,
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) and Shanghai Children's Medical
Center (SCMC). This challenging experience was made possible through the vision and
support of PROJECT HOPE, Mr. Irving Schneider, MASHAV (Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs) and many others.
Dr. Itamar Shalit, Director of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel hosted Dr. Chen
Shu-Bao, Director of Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Dr. Chen Zhi-Xing, Vice
President of Shanghai Second Medical University and Mr. Robert J. Burastero, Project Hope
Regional Director for Asia & the Middle East, during their preliminary visit to SCMCI on
January 3, 1998.
On March 23, 1998 three experts from SCMCI made a first successful 10-day visit as
consultants to Shanghai Children's Medical Center. Professor Mark Mimouni (Director OPD,
ER and the Observation Room), Ms. Ilana Weinraub (Nursing, Director of Outpatient) and
Ms. Tammy Ben-Ron (Director of Administration OPD). SCMCI consultants examined the
services of outpatient, emergency and day-care departments and made recommendations as to
the operation of these departments at Shanghai Children's Medical Center.
On July 19, 1998 the second team of experts from SCMCI visited SCMC: Prof. Michael Zer
(Director Department of Surgery), Dr. Elhanan Bar-On (Head Orthopedics) and Ms. Nili
Zelikovsky (Head Nurse OR).
Itamar Shalit, M.D., M.P.A., Director
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel
visit Shanghai Children's Medical Center
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This delegation spent 10 days training their Chinese colleagues laying ground of what they
hope will be the beginning of a long-term academic exchange between Pediatric Surgery
departments at SCMCI and Shanghai Children's Medical Center.
The third team of SCMCI experts, Ms. Nili Arbel (Director of Physiotherapy) and Ms. Orna
Ze'evi (Senior Physiotherapist) were at SCMCI in September 1998. During their stay they
spent 10 days in Shanghai training SCMC staff on Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation in
children. Physiotherapy does not exist as a separate discipline in China. The health
professionals were extremely impressed by the miraculous result in-patients at SCMCI, after
even short sessions of PT, as demonstrated by the Israeli experts.
Dr. Itamar Shalit visited Shanghai Children's Medical Center from September 9 to September
14 to lecture on Infection Control.
Dr. Yeming Wu (Surgeon Department of Pediatric Surgery), Dr. Zhuoming Xu (Fellow in
Pediatric ICU), Dr. Bochang Chen (Attending Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Orthope-
dics), Dr. Jun Ye (Attending Physician, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism) were
the first Chinese experts who received a 3-month training at Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel from October 25, 1998 till January 21, 1999.
The extraordinary occasion of the inauguration of the new Shanghai Children's Medical
Center took place on July 1, 1998, with the participation of Mr. Bill Clinton, President of the
United States of America, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Irving Schneider.
The beginning of a wonderful friendship:
Dr. Itamar Shalit, Director SCMCI
visits Shaughai Children's Medical Center
September, 1998
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The Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) - a 224 beds, 7 floor
facility - is located in Petah-Tikva, and is part of the Kupat Holim Clalit health care
organization, which is the largest in HMO in Israel.
A teaching hospital affiliated with Tel-Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine,
SCMCI is supported in North America by Medical Development for Israel, and in Israel
by the Public Council for SCMCI and "Yeladim Shelanu" Foundation.
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SCMCI was built following a comprehensive study of Israel's health system and its national
pediatric medical needs. The study, conducted by an international commission of experts,
concluded that there is an urgent need for a modern tertiary care hospital to serve all children
of Israel and the Middle East. Our highly trained staff - working with state-of-the-art
equipment and a unique, multidisciplinary approach W have introduced pediatric specialties not
previously available in Israel.
Our mission goes beyond the hospital's walls. We reach out - to our Arab neighbors, to new
immigrants, to community clinic, even to developing nations. These bridges go even further
into Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. SCMCI hosts special training courses
for pediatric nurses from dozens of countries throughout the developing world.
Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel has strong ties with the community and is
committed to improving children's medicine throughout Israel. A network of innovative
satellite pediatric clinics has been established, including the first in an Arab city - the
Children's Health Center in Taibe. These clinics, run by senior SCMCI doctors, introduce new
standards of health care into the community.
From the moment you arrive at the front pavilion and are drawn into the beautiful, light-filled
enlivened by colorful windbanners, it is clear that an unparalleled center of hope and care was
created. Every detail of the hospital -- from the overarching architectural concept to the
coordinating color schemes and cheerfully patterned linens and pajamas -- has been carefully
and fully thought out. Everything bears the mark of hands and hearts.
Each floor is new evidence of creativity and thoughtfulness: the inclusion of both indoor and
outdoor play/waiting spaces, the fully equipped computer room sponsored by the Ministry of
Education, the color coordination of paint and floor number, the high quality of all the visible
construction materials and the appealing, well-stocked gift shop. The central atrium is a
comforting and a stimulating core of the building, which affirms the viewer's sense of
connection to the time of day and to the changes of the seasons.
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THE KING'S PRIVATE
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MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
Dr. Yousef Goussous, Private Physician of H.M. King Houssein, and Dr. Adel Shureideh, Director
King Hussein Medical Center in Jordan, participated in the Fourth International Symposium on
Otology and Audiology that took place on Sunday May 24th, 1998 at Schneider Children's Medical
Center of Israel. The Symposium, sponsored by the Canada International Scientific Exchange
Program (CISEPO), contributed to the broadening of professional networks between
Israel-Jordan-Palestine for the early detection of hearing loss in infants and children and for its
assessment and treatment. CISEPO, headed by Professor Arnold Noyek from the Mount Sinai
Hospital, University of Toronto, is designed to promote education as well as to encourage
cooperation among medical, scientific and educational colleagues throughout the region. The first
of these collaborative programs took place at the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan.
The programs and methods established during both conferences, will be distributed throughout the
Middle East, and enhance the broadening of professional networks in the region and will contribute
to the díalogue and peacebuilding among the regional participants.
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From Heart to Heart
Four infants, each 7 to 17 days old, are now hospitalized at Schneider Children's Medical Center of
Israel following complicate arterial switch surgery which all four underwent within a period of less
than one week. This is a rare and most likely once in a lifetime event.
All four were born with similar congenital heart defects - transposition of the arteries. In this defect
the aorta emerges from the right ventricle of the heart and the pulmonary artery from the left
ventricle, a condition which is fatal. Thus, the fournewborns had to be operated on in the first days
of their lives, The surgery was performed by Prof. Bernardo Vidne at SCMCI.
One of the four infants had been born with two additional and most complicated heart defects - a
disconnected norta in the thorax and a large defect of the ventricular septum. All defects were
corrected during the transposition surgeries,
One baby is from the southern region in Israel, one is from the north, one is from a Druze village on
the Golan Heights and one is from a Druze village in the Haifa area.
The condition of all four babies is good and they are recuperating from the complicated operation.
Dr. Ovadiah Dagan, Director of Cardiac ICU at SCMCI reports that in the course of the last four
years around 1000 pediatrio heart surgeries were performed, of which 15% involved babies younger
than one-month-old - to correct various complicated heart defects. The mortality rate of all
pediatric cardiac surgical procedures at SCMCI is approximately 5%, This rate is exceptionally
low, not only for Israel but also in comparison with the finest hospitals in the world.
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SURGEONS AT SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL
EXCRETED AN ENORMOUS TUMOR - AND SAVED A 6 MONTHS OLD BABY'S LIFE
"My baby is reborn," the happy father said after the successful surgery
In a dramatic attempt to save the life of a 6 months old baby boy, a complex and unique operation
to excrete a liver tumor was successfully performed at Schneider Children's Medical Center in
September 1998. This tumor was diagnosed in Gilad Levy from Haifa two months ago. His treating
physicians in a hospital in the northern part of the country were planning to transfer him to Belgium
for operation, however, very soon the tumor increased enormously in size. Gilad had an unusual
complication of high abdominal pressure that caused an obstruction of the blood flow to the veins,
from the lower part of the body to the heart, thus endangering his life. Gilad was transferred
urgently in critical condition to ICU at Schneider Children's Medical Center, where a most
dramatic procedure was performed to save his life. After his condition was stabilized he was
transferred to OR where the second complex procedure began - the excretion of this enormous
tumor. During a 10-hour operation, headed by Dr. Eytan Mor, Director Liver Transplant Unit at the
Rabin Medical Center, the huge tumor was excreted entirely, weighing more than 1 kg. "My baby is
reborn" says the father, Shlomo Levy. "There are no words to express our gratitude to the medical
staff who treated him. It was like in the movies - they saved him quick and efficiently." The
broadcaster in the "Good Morning Israel" broadcast explained: "This case is mentioned in the
medical handbooks as a very rare one, At Schneider Children's Medical Center a tumor weighing
more than 1 kg was excreted out of the small body of 6 months old Gilad. No additional case like
these ever occurred in Israel, and little Gilad's name will be registered in medical handbooks as
"a very rare medical case that ended in a miracle."
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Nine-month-old Fares Halalsheh arrived from Irbid, Jordan for treatment at the
Kathy and Lee Graub Cystic Fibrosis Center of the Schneider Children's
Medical Center of Israel
Fares Halalsheh was being treated at the CF Center in Irbid and referred by his physician for a
second opinion to the SCMCI Kathy and Lee Graub Cystic Fibrosis Center, headed by Dr. Hannah
Blau. The nine-month-old baby boy is the third child in his family to suffer from this hereditary
disease. Twins were born to his parents for whom CF was fatal - one died after two days and the
other at the age of one-and-a-half months.
Until recently, there was no indication that CF was prevalent in Arab countries, however, it is a
rather common disease among Israeli Arabs. In Irbid, Jordan, there is a center that treats
approximately 60 CF patients. The director of the Center in Irbid is familiar with the advanced
multidisciplinary work performed at the SCMCI CF Center and referred Fares there for a second
opinion. While at SCMCI, the family had the opportunity to receive guidance from a whole team of
specialists in the disease including doctors, nurses, a clinical nutritionist, physiotherapist, and
researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Laboratory Services.
The mother who is an archeologist, and the father who works at the Department of Finance at the
Yarmouk University in Irbid, will continue to bring Fares for check-up at SCMCL
It seems that this is the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between the CF Center in Jordan and
SCMCI.
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