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A new hospital branch just opened in Petach Tikvah at Beilinson Hospital. It will allow discharged patients to go home the same day with appropriate home care equipment. This lending facility replaces the previous site at Schneider Children's Medical Center and will enable volunteers to help many more people. Yad Sarah is grateful to Eitan Fleischer, Shneider Administrative Director for 16 years of cooperation and to Yedida Maor, deputy director in helping to find a new location. A new central area branch in Givatayim will supplement the existing Ichilov Hospital Branch in Tel-Aviv and the B'nai Brak branch. After renovations, the Givatayim branch – supported by the town's municipality and the Rotary Club – will be looking for additional volunteers. City residents interesting in volunteering four hours a week, in two shifts at either of the new branches may call Orit at 03-954-3300. Special training and supervision are provided for each new volunteer. Yad Sarah was established in 1976 and next month will celebrate 30 years of community service for its volunteers. Last year alone its 6,000 volunteers helped 380,000 people. A Machon Dahaf survey had indicated that throughout the years of Yad Sarah's operation, every second family in Israel has received help from one of its many services. Yad Sarah received no government budgeting for its overall operations and depends upon contribution from the private sector. |