Shaare Zedek Medical Center
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Shaarey Tzedek Medical Center (STMC) is a major research hospital located in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. The Hebrew name means "gates of justice."
SZMC has offices in ten countries outside of Israel, including England and the United States.[1]
[edit] History
Shaarey Tzedek was the first large hospital in Jerusalem. After the Ottoman Turks gave permission in the 1890s, and with funding from European donors, the hospital was built on Jaffa Road, two miles outside the Old City. Its opening ceremony took place on January 27, 1902. Dr. Moshe Wallach was the director from then until 1947. Schwester Selma lived in the hospital and cared for abandoned children.
Shaarey Tzedek treated casualties of battles in Jerusalem, such as the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Six Day War.
The current campus in Bayit Vegan was inaugurated in 1980. [2]
