The Medi-Club

The Village’s Medical Center (Medi-Club) is fully equipped and able to treat a wide variety of ailments and provide emergency care and ongoing medical treatment as needed. Alongside a kid-friendly waiting room and a nurses’ station, resides • two treatment rooms for regular service including state-of-the-art medical equipment • a trauma room for providing CPR and other urgent treatments • four rooms used for camper rest and supervision according to the child’s needs, • a nurse’s room and • a medication storage and distribution room. If necessary, medical staff can accompany campers with mobile medical packs to support campers during activities. If immediate hospitalization is necessary, the Village is a 7 minute drive to the area hospital and the Village central lawn is approved as a helicopter landing pad. Throughout their stay at the Village, our dedicated volunteer doctors and nurses provide campers with ongoing medical care—either at the medical center, at meals, in the bunk, or at activities—all performed in the most discrete way possible.

The medical staff

Alongside the team managing the medical center – Dr. Herzel Gavriel, the medical director and Zmora Zohar, the head nurse – and six permanent nurses on the medical staff, more than 80 doctors and more than 200 nurses have volunteered so far. We constantly continue recruiting many others, who have expressed their volunteering willingness and submitted their applications. Among the doctors who volunteered are heads of departments, unit managers and physicians with expertise in all areas of pediatric and emergency medicine, many of whom have years of experience working in emergency rooms, pediatric intensive care departments, oncology departments, and other pediatric departments. Thanks to an experienced and diverse team, we maintain first class medical care and assistance. The large and equipped medical center and the professional medical staff provide a response to any medical event such as: worsening of the child’s illness symptoms, injury, bites, shortness of breath, seizures, low blood sugar, stroke, heart attack, allergic reaction, etc. The medical staff makes efforts not to stand out in the Village area or to emphasize the medical issue in the Village experience. The distribution of medications is done quietly, during meals in the dining room and without the need to repeatedly go to the medical center.

Registration for Sessions

For every child registered for a session at the Village a medical registration application is filled by his /her parents and doctor to inform the medical staff of the details of the child’s illness, the necessary treatments, the physical and mental limitations and his/her special needs – weeks before their arrival to the Village. This enables proper preparation and the recruitment of the best team to work at the medical center, to ensure the safety of all those staying at the Village.