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Unparalleled                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Our Staff





           Excellence                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Soroka is the largest civilian employer in the



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Negev, with some


            "Soroka is a truly unique institution . . . It has created                                                                                                                                                                                                               4,600
            a new kind of physician and a new kind of nurse, who                                                                                                                                                                                                                     employees
            deal not only with the disease of the patient, but with
            the patient, family, and feelings.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                         including approximately

            Shimon Glick, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health                                                                                                                                                                                                         900                    1,600
            Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Former                                                                                                                                                                                                        physicians             nurses
            Chair of Internal Medicine, Soroka Medical Center
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        500                    500

            Did you know?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               other health           administrative

               Soroka is the largest of Clalit Health Services'                                                                                                                                                                                                         professionals          workers
               fourteen hospitals.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Our employees take the great responsibility
               Soroka’s ER and delivery rooms are the busiest                                                                                                                                                                                                  that  they  shoulder  very seriously.  A strong
               in the country.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               sense  of  mission  exists  among  both
               Soroka treats victims of terror and Israeli soldiers                                                                                                                                                                                            administrative  workers and clinicians.  The
               stationed in the Negev.                                                                                                                                                                                                                         warm family atmosphere that characterizes
               Soroka is the only hospital in Israel to hold the                                                                                                                                                                                               the  southern region  is  also  an  integral

               Joint Commission International quality and                                                                                                                                                                                                      element of the patient experience at Soroka.
               safety standard for more than a decade.                                                                                                                                                                                                         Our  staff  members  are  involved  in  a  wide

               Soroka’s physicians travel around the world to                                                                                                                                                                                                  range of professional work, including
               care for victims of earthquakes, civil wars, and                                                                                                                                                                                                treatment, research, teaching, and
               other disasters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                volunteering  in the community  in which
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               they live.
               Soroka’s  physicians  visit  developing  countries,
               sharing their knowledge and experience.
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