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Prof. Nimrod Maimon, MD
Director of Internal Medicine Department, specializing in internal medicine and lung disease. During the pandemic: Director of the Ministry of Health’s Magen Avot v’Imahot (Parent’s Shield) a national program providing solutions for the COVID-19 crisis at retirement homes; nursing homes, shelters and other institutions.
Coronavirus profoundly affects the elderly. Prof. Maimon says we must protect older people, who are more liable to be infected by COVID-19, by ensuring that the measures to maintain social distancing are respected and protecting them from coronavirus.
Elderly people who are isolated from society and normal daily activities are much more negatively affected by COVID-19 than young people. He strives to balance the need to protect the elderly population from infection with the need to maintain some kind of normal routine.
Maimon, responsible for more than 1,000 facilities with over 70,000 elderly residents, contributes significantly to national resilience in coping with the pandemic.
Dr. Lior Nesher, MD
Specialist in infectious disease and internal medicine, and Head of Antibiotic Stewardship Service. During pandemic: Infectious Disease Senior Advisor.
Dr. Lior Nesher balances providing high-quality health care to COVID-19 patients with optimal care to all other patients, whilst the entire way in which medicine is practiced at Soroka has been impacted. “As Soroka is the only medical center in the Negev, it must maintain its ability to provide the most advanced medical care no matter what”.
Nesher keeps the staff and patients safe and prevents hospital-acquired infections from harming staff and patients, while providing guidance and expertise to operate all aspects of the hospital’s activities.
Prof. Victor Novack, MD, PhD
Head of the Research Authority and Clinical Research Center. Role during the pandemic: Director of the COVID-19 Department (Also a Senior Researcher in Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston).
Prof. Novack says that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused Soroka to rethink the very way it practices contemporary medicine, introducing new, exciting technologies and are reaffirming the human side of the patient–doctor relationship. In these challenging days, their role as providers of compassionate care and not mere “health technicians” is once again taking center stage.
Dr. Dan Schwarzfuchs, MD
Deputy Director General, Head of Internal Medicine Unit, Department of Emergency Medicine (ED). During pandemic: Coordinating the care of patients in the ED with suspected or confirmed COVID-19.
With the onset of the pandemic, Soroka’s ED, the busiest in Israel, has pioneered innovative strategies and was the first in Israel to introduce separate, isolated complexes within the ED for each group of patients. Every patient and escort may be a potential source of infection, so Nesher strives to minimize contact among patients. Staff wear protective equipment at all times. As a result, neither medical staff, patients or visitors have been infected during the time he or she spent in the ED. After months of hard work, Soroka is proud to say that its ED team has upheld the hospital’s excellent standards while providing optimal care for COVID-19 patients.
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