Meir Medical Center
Kfar Sava
, Israel
6
reviews
Price level Medium
JCI American accreditation of medical institutions
3.200.000
Patients per year
1956
Year of foundation
483.000
diagnostic procedures per year
>73.000
operations per year
6.000
number of births per year
About clinic
Meir Hospital is a large multidisciplinary medical centre of the international level in Israel. The advanced treatment of oncological diseases and the most complex interventions on the brain, spinal cord, heart and blood vessels, spine, and joints are available here.
Meir Hospital was founded in 1956. In 2007-2011, it was recognized as the best in Israel and included in the TOP-50 academic hospitals in the world.
The hospital is located in the cosy town of Kfar Saba, a 20-minute drive from Tel Aviv, the Mediterranean Sea, and 50 minutes from Ben Gurion Airport.
Features of Meir Hospital
Meir is one of the top medical institutions in Israel, and it has demonstrated high performance in all areas of medicine for decades.
Meir Medical Center is:
- The scientific base, which cooperates with the University of Tel Aviv, conducts over 450 studies annually. It is the main training platform for Israeli doctors.
- 650 leading Israeli experts, including many world experts.
- The safety and efficacy of treatment were confirmed by international JCI accreditation.
- Partner of the National Olympic Team of Israel. It has the country's leading department of sports medicine and rehabilitation.
- Demanded clinic among foreign patients due to the optimal combination of price and quality. For all types of medical services, the cost is 30% cheaper than in hospitals in Western Europe.
Meir Hospital is part of the Clalit network, which is the largest healthcare organization in Israel and the second largest in the world.
Main Specializations of Meir Hospital
At Meir Hospital, medical care is available in all specializations, among which the main ones are:
- oncology;
- hematology;
- neurosurgery;
- pulmonology;
- cardiac surgery;
- gastroenterology;
- spinal surgery;
- orthopaedics and traumatology;
- nephrology;
- andrology and gynecology;
- pediatrics and neonatology;
- FIV.
Meir Hospital has everything you need to diagnose and treat over 1,000 types of diseases, including rare ones.
Oncology Treatment at Meir Hospital
Meir Medical Center is recognized as one of the best in Israel for treating all types of oncological pathologies, including secondary and metastatic cancer.
Oncologists at Meir Hospital use up-to-date diagnostic methods to establish a 100% accurate diagnosis and develop a comprehensive treatment regimen for each patient individually. In addition to the classical methods of cancer treatment, the hospital uses the following methods:
- Selective internal radiotherapy SIRT. Introduction to the hepatic artery of microscopic particles with ionizing radiation.
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy SBRT. A narrow radiation beam is directed at the tumour thanks to computer modelling and ultra-precise linear accelerators. 1-5 sessions allow for the destruction of pathological foci in hard-to-reach places: lungs, spine, pancreas, and kidneys.
- Intraoperative radiotherapy IORT. Irradiation of the tumour during surgery using special applicators placed in nearby areas. It is used for cancer of the brain, neck, and breast.
- Targeted and immune therapy. It is based on the impact on specific molecules or cells responsible for the development and spread of the tumour.
Modern Surgery at Meir Hospital
Meir Hospital has 20 operating rooms with high-tech equipment for the most complex interventions. There are Da Vinci robotic systems with the latest modifications, operating microscopes with multiple magnifications, and navigation systems. Meir surgeons perform minimally invasive procedures, allowing patients to recover quickly and return to normal lives. Open interventions are used in exceptional cases.
Among the most requested procedures at Meir Hospital:
- ophthalmic operations for complete or partial vision loss;
- microsurgical interventions on the brain and spinal cord;
- maxillofacial reconstruction;
- endobronchial operations for tumours and obstructions, which are performed using unique methods;
- cardiosurgical endovascular procedures: coronary artery bypass grafting, prosthetics and reconstruction of heart valves, stenting, implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators;
- removal of intervertebral hernia;
- treatment of tumours of the gastrointestinal tract;
- arthroscopy and arthroplasty of joints: shoulder, hip, knee;
- transvaginal resection of an ovarian tumour, laparoscopic and robotic hysterectomy (removal of the uterus).
Conditions for Patients at Meir Hospital
Meir Hospital is focused on foreign patients. For their convenience, comfortable wards with round-the-clock staff supervision are provided. Patients on outpatient treatment can stay in cosy hotels near Meir Hospital.
Experts Medical will assist in organizing treatment at Meir Hospital: preparation of medical documents, ticket booking, transfer, and 24/7 support by the coordinating doctor.
The best specialties of the hospital
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Cardiosurgery
Dentistry
Dermatology
Endocrinology
Gatroenterology
IVF
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Obstetrics & gynecology
Oncology
Ophtalmology
Orthopedy
Plastic surgery
Proctology
Pulmonology
Rheumatology
Sanatoriums and rehabilitation
Surgery
Urology, nephrology
Vascular surgery
Maria and Eugene
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: urology
We express our deep gratitude to the staff of Meir Medical Center for the clear and professional organization of all issues related to examination and treatment in the shortest possible time. Also, many thanks for the ability and professionalism to support, reassure during a difficult period.
Veronica! Thank you for your smile, participation, warmth. I was not abroad, but among close and very good friends.
I express my deep gratitude to Professor Ilan Leibovich! How lucky I am to be in your hands!
Thanks to the whole team of the urology department for their sensitivity, professionalism and kind attitude towards patients.
I wish you all peace, goodness, prosperity and good health to everyone!!!
Anaida Gasparyan
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: Surgery
I want to express my gratitude in writing to the doctors who helped establish the correct diagnosis, we want to mention the pulmonologist, Dr. M. Kuchuk, I thank him for his attention, for the consultations and advice!
Subsequently, a thoracoscopy was performed, especially thanks for the positive outcome of the operation to Dr. B. Handel, head of the department of thoracic surgery, who is actually a doctor from God. Both professional and his human qualities helped me, supported me during the entire postoperative period.
Thank you all very much, success to you all, health !!!!!!!!!!
Sergei and Irina Ustinov
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: examination
Thank you very much for organizing our stay at Meir Medical Center. Everything is superbly organized. Thank you for the sensitive attitude to the clients of the Center, saving our time. Everything is organized in such a way that the doctors and medical staff treated us very attentively and kindly.
Despite our lack of knowledge of Hebrew and English, all consultations were very accessible and understandable to us.
All doctors and medical staff are highly professional. Separately, I would like to thank our Russian-speaking escort – translator Veronica.
The girl was very attentive to us and helped with the language, including when purchasing medicines in a pharmacy and replenishing the balance of a mobile phone.
Thanks a lot to everyone.
Mityushkina Elena
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: establishing diagnosis
I want to express my gratitude to you in writing for organizing my examination and for the well-organized work. Everything went exactly as discussed on the phone: meeting at the airport, excellent apartment (next to the clinic), free communication in the clinic itself, thanks to the Russian-speaking medical staff.
Thanks to the high qualification of your doctors, I was given the final diagnosis (because in Russia they were diagnosed 3 times and all are different). Now I am being treated according to the scheme prescribed by the doctor.
Thank you so much for organizing my examination and for your concern. And, of course, the level of doctors that I was lucky enough to get an appointment with.
Health to you and success in your noble work!
Evgeny Bortnikov
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: oncology
Oncology, eight courses of chemotherapy and a half established diagnosis – this is in Russia. Weekly diagnostics, a precise diagnosis, a specific treatment regimen – this is the Meir clinic in Israel!
I want to express my deep gratitude to all the staff of the Meir Medical Center, God bless you!
Yuri Moiseev
5/5
Clinic: Meir Medical Center
Diagnosis: oncology
Thank you for everything you have done for me. Thanks to the surgeons Mr. Faran and Shmulevsky, the oncologist Mr. Mishali, the nurses and all the medical staff of the operating department of the Meir Center.
I am satisfied with the results of the operation and treatment, now I have practically returned to a full life and I hope that the next examination, which will take place in May-June at your center, will confirm that the risk of developing a malignant tumor of the stomach is in the past.
I had the opportunity to choose a medical center, but I chose the Meir center and am very glad that I was not mistaken.
In conclusion, let me once again wish you and the entire Center prosperity, a well-filled budget, confidence in the future, and success in your noble cause.
Sincerely, a patient of your center, Yuri Moiseev.
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Cost of diagnostics and operations
Diagnostics
| PET CT | 1100 - 2500 $ | Enquire price |
| Coronary angiography | 5000 - 6500 $ | Enquire price |
| MRI | 800 - 1500$ | Enquire price |
| Laboratory studies | 50 - 1000 $ | Enquire price |
Oncology
| High-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplant | 77000 - 130 000 $ | Enquire price |
| Chemotherapy | 6500 - 9300 $ | Enquire price |
| Mastectomy | 12000 - 14 800 $ | Enquire price |
| Da Vinci robotic system | 17800 - 23 500 $ | Enquire price |
| Removal of cervical tumor | 12000 - 18000 $ | Enquire price |
| (Transurethral resection of the prostate) TUR | 12 000 - 17 500 $ | Enquire price |
Oncohematology
| Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (related donor) | 174 000 - 271000 $ | Enquire price |
| Bone marrow biopsy | 5000 - 7500 $ | Enquire price |
Cardiac surgery
| Coronary angiography | 3800 - 6700 $ | Enquire price |
| Coronary stenting | 15 000 - 18 300 $ | Enquire price |
| Coronary artery bypass grafting | 21 000 - 24 000$ | Enquire price |
| Heart valve replacement | 23 200 - 26 700 $ | Enquire price |
Orthopedics
| Hip replacement | 12 300 - 16 900 $ | Enquire price |
| Knee joint replacement | 10 400 - 13 100 $ | Enquire price |
| Ankle Arthroscopy | 6300 - 9500 $ | Enquire price |
| Surgery for scoliosis | 42 000 - 49 000 $ | Enquire price |
| Stem cell therapy for arthritis | 6 880 - 19 300 $ | Enquire price |
Ophthalmology
| Lens replacement (cataract treatment) | 5300 - 7500$ | Enquire price |
| Keratoplasty (cornea transplant) | 8 300 - 9 400$ | Enquire price |
| Crosslinking for 1 eye | 7 300 - 8 200 $ | Enquire price |
| I Lasik (2 eyes) | 4 200 - 5 500 $ | Enquire price |
| Prosthetic eye | 3 500 - 4 500$ | Enquire price |
| PRK Photorefractive keratectomy (for 2 eyes) | 4 800 - 5500 $ | Enquire price |
Obstetrics Gynecology
| Childbirth | 3 500 - 5 200 $ | Enquire price |
| IVF | 9 065 - 10 500 $ | Enquire price |
Neurology
| Complete diagnosis of epilepsy and conservative treatment | 8 200 - 9 300 $ | Enquire price |
| Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease | 2 100 - 3 600 $ | Enquire price |
Best clinic's doctors
Prof. Shmuel Avital
surgeon
Work experience:
over 32 years
Achievements:
The professor specializes in the surgical treatment of pathologies, surgical interventions on the colon and rectum, adrenal glands, spleen, laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder, hernioplasty.
Education:
1985-1991 – studied at the Hadassah Medical School (Jerusalem);
1992 – MD.;
2000 – certification in the field of general surgery.
Professional experience:
- 1994-2000 – Tel Aviv Ichilov Medical Center, general surgery;
- 2000-2001 – Cleveland Clinic Florida (USA), laparoscopic surgery;
- 2002-2003 – Internship at the American University of Miami (Florida) on surgery of the large intestine and rectum.
- Shmuel Avital has been the head of the “B” surgery unit at the Meir Clinic since 2011.
He is a member of many medical societies:
- Association of Surgeons of Israel;
- Society of Endoscopic Surgeons of Israel;
- Society of Medicine of Israel;
- Association for Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Pathology of Israel;
- Society of Surgeons-Endoscopists of Europe;
- United States Colorectal Surgery Association.
Prof. Ilan Lejbovich
urologist, oncourologist
Work experience:
over 30 years
Achievements:
Head of the Urology Department at the Meir Clinic.
The professor specializes in the treatment of prostate adenoma, the treatment of renal malignancies, testicular and bladder cancer. He has performed hundreds of surgical interventions for the reconstruction of the urea.
Education:
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Author of more than 100 scientific articles in the field of urology, as well as books on the treatment of the prostate gland.
Editor of the Urology Update magazine.
Membership in professional organizations:
- European Society of Urology (European Society of Urology);
- American Society of Urology;
- Society of Urology of Israel (The Society of Urology of Israel);
- Medical Union of Israel (Medical Union of Israel).
Dr. Maya Gotfrid
oncologist
Work experience:
over 35 years
Achievements:
Specialization: lung cancer.
Education:
- Higher medical education, graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Padua, Italy;
- Internship in the field of general oncology at the Tel Hashomer Medical Center, Israel;
- Internship in Oncology and Radiation Therapy of the Lungs in Paris, France.
Clinical and scientific experience:
- Participant in numerous clinical trials to combat advanced non-small cell lung cancer;
- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Sackler, Tel Aviv University;
- Participant and speaker of Israeli and international conferences;
- Author of scientific articles and publications in the field of non-small cell lung cancer.
Membership in associations:
- International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC);
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO);
- European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO);
- European Association for Research on Cancer (EACR);
- Israeli Society of Clinical Oncologists and Radiation Therapists.
Dr. Reuven Sharoni
gynecologist
Work experience:
over 40 years
Achievements:
Leading specialist in the treatment of gynecological diseases in Israel.
Specialization of the doctor: gynecology and obstetrics, medical genetics, perinthology, prenatal diagnostics.
He is Deputy Head of the Institute of Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Meir Medical Center.
He holds the position of senior lecturer at the Faculty of Gynecology, Tel Aviv University.
Education:
- Tel Aviv University;
- Hassad Medical School;
- European University;
- University of California (USA).
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What advanced cancer treatments are available at the Meir Clinic?
At Meir Hospital, particular attention is paid to early cancer diagnosis when the disease can be eliminated in 100% of cases. A special oncological check-up has been developed, which includes genetic tests. Meir Hospital has a PET-CT machine at its disposal. It enables doctors to detect a tumour at the zero stage, determine the degree of body damage, and develop an optimal therapy strategy.
Removal of neoplasms by Meir surgeons is performed using both classical and innovative technologies, such as:
- radiofrequency ablation;
- cryo destruction;
- laser removal;
- intraoperative radiotherapy Intrabeam for tumours in the spine;
oncothermia.
A comprehensive therapy plan can include effective targeted, immune, and gene chemotherapy drugs.
What modern techniques are used in cardiac surgery at Meir Hospital?
Meir cardiologists specialize in catheter procedures for the treatment of various cardiovascular conditions. This is an advanced branch in Israel, where world-famous specialists practice. Meir has developed and implemented unique methods:
- Ultrasonic catheterization (IVUS) – intravascular scanning. Increases the image quality of blood vessels many times over in comparison with the study on earlier devices.
- Holography of the heart is a unique procedure for interventional examinations. It allows the cardiac surgeon to view the patient’s heart in 3D. The technology also allows you to rotate the image with a hand movement.
- Treatment of coronary heart disease using endovascular techniques – catheterization, angioplasty with stenting.
- Unique designs of resorbable bio stents. They combine expanding and medicinal properties and have a therapeutic effect on the vascular walls.
- Combination valve models. They are durable and do not require patients to take anticoagulants constantly.
- Impella special catheter system for myocardial infarction. It takes over the main part of the left ventricle functions to pump blood into the aorta during recovery.
- Catheter elimination of an intravascular thrombus by aspiration (suction) with further implantation of a stent that releases anticoagulants.
How are spinal surgeries performed at the Meir Clinic?
The Meir Clinic Institute of Spinal Surgery develops and implements new technologies for treating spinal pathologies. 35% of all spine surgeries in Israel are performed here.
Most procedures at Meir are performed using minimally invasive techniques using the Spine Assist spinal robot. This allows surgeons to perform manipulations precisely and minimize postoperative risks.
How is scoliosis treated at Meir Clinic?
Meir Hospital is one of the few where surgical scoliosis treatment is performed using the ApiFix device developed in 2019 by Israeli specialists. Advanced technology is available in a limited number of global clinics. It is an alternative to a complex operation. It allows the elimination of a significant curvature in a minimally invasive way. The ApiFix system is designed to consider the child’s growth.
The procedure is performed within 1-2 hours by experienced spinal surgeons using navigation systems. The surgeon installs a small dynamic implant through a small incision up to 10 cm in the region of the scoliosis apex. Its support rod can be lengthened due to the special gear parts. The procedure does not require long-term hospitalization – the patient is discharged for 2-3 days. After returning home, he must perform a 20-minute set of special exercises twice daily, which he receives upon discharge. The whole process of therapy takes about 3 months.
What procedures are available for the treatment of orthopedic diseases at the Meir Clinic?
The Department of Orthopedics at Meir Hospital is one of the best in Israel. Meir specialists carry out the following procedures:
- arthroscopic procedures;
- treatment of all congenital and acquired diseases of the musculoskeletal system, including injuries;
- joint arthroplasty,
- false joint therapy.
Before surgery, Meir’s doctors conduct visual modelling considering the patient’s characteristics. This allows the surgeon to choose the most effective and safe treatment method.
Meir Medical Center specialists pay special attention to minimally invasive therapy of intervertebral hernia. Using laser technology, doctors perform decompression, discectomy, and plastic surgery on damaged discs.
Meir Hospital has developed special techniques for recovering patients after a hip fracture.
How to undergo treatment at Meir Medical Center?
To undergo treatment at Meir Hospital, you should leave a request through the feedback form on the Experts Medical website. Coordinating doctors will contact you and organise a trip to the Meir clinic.