The Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center in Haifa serves as a community medical center for Haifa and the North of Israel. Founded in 1976, The Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center has a highly-trained, progressive medical staff utilizing advanced technology.

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, with a population of nearly 300,000 inhabitants. It is home to a mixed population of Jews, Moslems, Druze and Christian Arabs. The professional staff of the The Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center are dedicated to administering care and saving the lives of its patients regardless of national origin or religion.

The Lady Davis Carmel Center serves more than 5,000 patients each month and is available to meet the various medical needs of hundreds of thousands of residents across Israel's north. Emergency rooms operate around the clock, treating some 350 patients daily. More than 20,000 surgical procedures are performed each year in the Center's eleven operating theatres. In addition, The Lady Davis Carmel Center administers more than one-half million laboratory tests and medical imaging procedures annually.

The Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center's extensive medical expertise is well-known. The cardiovascular unit was the first department in Israel to implant an artificial heart. Carmel's vascular specialists were the first in Israel to save a patient's life by implanting an aortic stent graft. Furthermore, Carmel doctors are the experts in the field of interventional cardiology for Haifa and northern Israel.

The Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center has become proficient in a broad spectrum of sub-specialties related to public health. The Pediatrics Department has an advanced Prenatal Intensive Care Unit and a Cystic Fibrosis Unit. The CF unit, the biggest of its kind in the north, treats children and their families confronting this devastating disease with understanding and medical expertise. Carmel is Israel's national coordination center for early detection of breast and colon cancer. The center provides support for patients through counseling and consultations. The professional staff is involved in a wide-range of pioneering research.

The strategic location of the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center presents a unique opportunity for expanding its services to neighboring countries to benefit the people and encourage peace. Currently, the Center serves a community with high birth rates and large immigrant population. In order to continue to provide health services to meet the ever-increasing needs of these populations, the Hospital is embarking on a major building expansion program through the addition of 20,000 square meters (215,000 square feet) to the existing structure.