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Ruach Tova: Israel\u2019s First Interprofessional Student-run Community Health Center <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion has established a social-community health center, the first of its kind in Israel, to be run by students<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Ruti Margalit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion\u2013Israel Institute of Technology has established “Ruach Tova” (Hebrew for \u201cGood Spirit\u201d), an interprofessional student-run community health center in the City of Haifa. The center offers services free of charge, catering to a local urban population that has difficulty obtaining medical treatment, whether due to lack of means or special status, including at-risk, homeless, and LGBTQ youth.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first educational-social initiative of its kind in Israel, the center connects medical students at the Technion to the urban fabric and to the population it will serve in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n

The center is operated by medical students from the Technion under the close supervision of volunteer doctors and in collaboration with various health professions: nurses, social workers, and various caregivers. Student participation is anchored in the curriculum of the Faculty of Medicine and other faculties involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a wonderful team, the center is headed by Faculty of Medicine Professor Ruti Margalit, a physician with extensive experience in community medicine who knows the model and has led influential academic and medical initiatives in the United States, India and Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHealth is a basic human right. We \u00a0are working to make it accessible to all,\u201d said Prof. Margalit. \u201cWhen a person is provided with basic needs \u2013 food, shelter, health, personal security \u2013 she is able to look beyond, be productive, and contribute to the surrounding community and its development. Participating students experience empowerment, enrichment, and first hand leadership opportunity as they take part in the development and management of this significant project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSuch centers have been operating for the past decade in the United States, Canada, and Europe but in Israel this is the first center of its kind, and we hope to give it a unique Israeli character and help establish similar centers around the country,\u201d she continued. \u201cHundreds of doctors, nurses, social workers, artists, and of course medical and other students joined the project.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The “Ruach Tova” Center is located in the Hadar neighborhood of Haifa, a city known for its openness and co-existence. The center operates in coordination with the City of Haifa, HMOs, local health and welfare offices, hospitals, non-profit organizations, and other entities operating in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the interprofessional work that characterizes it, Ruach Tova will be redesigned and renovated by students from the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, in the framework of a community involvement course led by architects Dafna Fisher-Gewirtzman, Dan Price and Michal Bleicher.<\/span><\/p>\n

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