Assuta
We had occasion to visit the new Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv last week. It is located in the area of Ramat Ha'hayil in NE Tel Aviv, in an area that is not found on any maps. They all cut-off at the junction of the Yarkon River in the north and the Ayalon Thruway in the east. A case for a GPS system, whIch we don't have. However, luckily a friend had taken his wife there last week too, so he gave me specific directions, that proved to be very accurate.
Once we found it, the Hospital was very impressive, very large, with a huge red base, and the classical glass tower arising from it. Inside it is all marble and large vistas. When you go to park it prints your registration number on the parking ticket (cameras at the entrance) and when you enter the elevators there are no buttons for floors, they are on the outside. You push the button for the floor you want and then it tells you which elevator to go to, and it takes you right there. The staff were very helpful in response to our poor Hebrew-speaking efforts. We waited for a scan and afterwards were given the results on a CD to take to our doctor. We were also given a secret code to access the analysis on the internet at a later date. While waiting, there was a Steimatsky's bookstore and a cafeteria on the ground floor.
From there we wanted to drive to Beersheva on the nearby Geha Highway (Rte. 4) that could be seen across the fields from the large glass windows of the Hospital. But, it was a case of you can't get there from here. The road outside the hospital was one-way in the wrong direction, so we had to double back. Then we got lost in a maze of roads and a local market and noone could explain exactly how to traverse the area to get onto the highway. Finally we hit the main Rehov Jabotinski in Ramat Gan and were able to go north to the junction with Route 4, the only entry to the highway in that region. So finally we made it, and were soon heading south to spend Shavuot with our family in Beersheva.
Once we found it, the Hospital was very impressive, very large, with a huge red base, and the classical glass tower arising from it. Inside it is all marble and large vistas. When you go to park it prints your registration number on the parking ticket (cameras at the entrance) and when you enter the elevators there are no buttons for floors, they are on the outside. You push the button for the floor you want and then it tells you which elevator to go to, and it takes you right there. The staff were very helpful in response to our poor Hebrew-speaking efforts. We waited for a scan and afterwards were given the results on a CD to take to our doctor. We were also given a secret code to access the analysis on the internet at a later date. While waiting, there was a Steimatsky's bookstore and a cafeteria on the ground floor.
From there we wanted to drive to Beersheva on the nearby Geha Highway (Rte. 4) that could be seen across the fields from the large glass windows of the Hospital. But, it was a case of you can't get there from here. The road outside the hospital was one-way in the wrong direction, so we had to double back. Then we got lost in a maze of roads and a local market and noone could explain exactly how to traverse the area to get onto the highway. Finally we hit the main Rehov Jabotinski in Ramat Gan and were able to go north to the junction with Route 4, the only entry to the highway in that region. So finally we made it, and were soon heading south to spend Shavuot with our family in Beersheva.
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