Assuta Ashdod Hospital

Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital (AMCA) is Israel’s newest public hospital (began operation in June 2017), located in Ashdod, the fifth largest city in Israel. It is a 300-bed hospital with a potential for expansion to 650 beds.

It has a state-of-the-art Emergency Department and two Internal Medicine Wards as well as a short stay Internal Medicine Unit, and 9 modern operating rooms. The unique mission of the new University Hospital is to create a fully integrated care system that links the hospital staff, community health care providers, social services, community support services, the patient and the patient's family by reengineering the care process supported by information and communication technologies.

Maccabi Healthcare Services, the owner of ASSUTA, is the second largest health plan in Israel and provides comprehensive primary and secondary community healthcare services to over 2 million people. Maccabi is AMCA's key partner in developing the model for integrating hospital and community care in Assuta Ashdod University Hospital and in the ADLIFE project.

The new Assuta Ashdod University Hospital's overall goal is the development of an integrated care system in collaboration with the Health Plans and the Municipality (social services). This is being developed by creating interfaces between the hospital and community EMRs predominantly with Maccabi Healthcare Services, and interfaces with Social Services of the Municipality. Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital's focus on integration with community services has already fostered unique innovations such as joint workshops between the Emergency Room staff and primary care doctors in the community, and the establishment of a unique short-stay internal medicine ward. Maccabi has set up an Integration Unit in the hospital that fosters joint discharge planning for coordinated care in the community post-discharge and thus a seamless transition back to the community. The Samson Assuta Ashdod hospital is formally affiliated with the Ben Gurion University School of Medicine for training and research and has a clinical research unit that works closely with the hospital's innovation unit. The hospital just completed a H2020 project – CONNECARE – that focused on implementing digitally enabled integrated care.

The Assuta Ashdod Hospital is one of the ADLIFE pilot sites in which ADLIFE will be implemented, in close collaboration with Maccabi Healthcare Services primary and secondary care services in the community in the Ashdod area. AMCA will be an active participant in all aspects of ADLIFE and is the Work Package leader for WP8 - the work package that guides the pilot design and implementation of the ADLIFE Care Model.

https://www.assutaashdod.co.il/