It’s great honor and privilege to be the Medical Director of the “Holy Family hospital” in Nazareth.  A hospital who’s history in the Holy Land dates back to the year 1882.
Along over 125 years of existence the hospital has known a lot of ups and downs, like the whole area of the Middle East who has experienced quite a lot of good days but also long periods of bad times over the last century.
Thanks to God and to the people who served the hospital, along the years , with love, commitment and deep sense of responsibility  we are able to survive in spite of the many and serious difficulties and to bring this institution to an outstanding position in the field of health care and medical services in the area in general and and in Nazareth in particular.
Patient care and his/her safety and well – being were, still are and will forever remain our main concern and most important task.
The continuous development in terms of services, equipment, infra structure, and staff is the best testimony on our role in the medical camp and the need for us as health suppliers. The continuous growth in terms of number of patients in the emergency room, out-patient clinics, departments and the different services in the biggest trust given to us by our community and the authorities. A trust that we highly value and cherish as we continue to care for and to deepen it’s roots in each and every one of our working staff.
As we look to the future we foresee a continuous and growing demand for our services. We are committed to meet the challenge of QUALITY & SAFETY and to be there where ever and whenever we are needed, fully prepared and highly equipped with love, sense of humanity and professionalism. So help us God.
 
The Hospitaller Order of St. John of God is an international religious order of Roman Catholic Brothers dedicated to caring for the poor, the sick, the dying and the disabled in 51 countries around the world.
Throughout the world, St. John of God Missions operates more than 250 specialized hospitals and centres in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North and South America.
 
The Order, governed by a prior general who resides in Rome; it is now divided into 22 provinces, with 1204 Brothers and 309 apostolic centres.
In addition to these a hospice and eventually a Hospital of the Order has been established at Nazareth.
 
The Order draws its inspiration from the life, example and teaching of its founder - St. John of God.
 

THE FOUNDER
St. John of God, the founder of this religious institution, was born 8 March, 1495, at Montemor Novo, in Portugal. In his fortieth year he was drawn strongly to God's service and began a wonderful life of prayer, penance, and charity towards his neighbour. Pressed by the love of God, and of Christ's suffering members, he founded his first hospital at Granada in Spain, where he tenderly served the sick and afflicted.
In his biography there's an account in which while John was washing a poor man, that man was transformed in Our Lord Jesus, with the signs of His Passion. Jesus brought evidence to John through this grace that everything done to the least of men was done to God.
After ten years spent in the exercise of heroic charity, he died 8 March, 1550. He was canonized by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690; and was declared heavenly patron of the dying and of all the hospitals by Pope Leo XIII, in 1898.
 
The basis of his life, example and teaching was a deep sense of hospitality which opened him to every person he met and moved him to do everything in his power to help them in their needs.
The Order, endeavouring to maintain, deepen and perpetuate this hospitality towards others as an integral part of the life of God's People, carries out a wide range of health and social service activities in 309 centres and services in 46 countries and on every continent. The membership of the Order consists of 1204 Brothers who come from 50 countries. The Co-workers who partner the Brothers in their activities number approximately 40,000.
 
Strictly speaking, the Order is composed of men who belong to the religious family popularly know as the Brothers of St. John of God. However, the term 'Order' also is taken to indicate the persons and activities of the thousands of Co-workers, men and women, who, throughout the world, provide a wide range of health care and social welfare programmes in centres and services run by the Brothers of St.John of God. 
 
The fortunes of the religious family - the Brothers - have waxed and waned through the four and a half centuries of its life with periods of great expansion and other periods of retrenchment in the face of adverse social, political and ecclesial circumstances. 
Today, Brothers and Co-workers are actively developing a 'new hospitality' that responds to the new poor and the new needs of today. It is very evident that more persons are being assisted by the Order throughout the world today than ever before in its history.
 
The Brothers undergo a special course of training in order to fit them for carrying out their various works of charity, to which they devote their life. In some provinces some of them are even graduates in medicine, surgery, and chemistry. 
After the example of their founder, they seek their own sanctification and their patients' spiritual and corporal welfare. To the three solemn vows of religion they add a fourth, of serving the sick for life in their hospitals. They also perform the usual duties and pious exercises of the religious life. They assist daily at Holy Mass, meditation, the recital in choir of the liturgy of the Hours and spiritual reading. Young men of good disposition, sound health and possessing aptitude for the order, and resolved to serve God generously in the religious life are received in the Order. The time of novitiate is two years, after which the novice pronounces the so called simple vows. Three years later, he can be admitted to solemn profession.
 

THE VALUES
The values of the Hospitaller Order of St.John of God

• Respect for the dignity and rights of the individual
• Holistic approach to care and assistance
• Creating an environment where each person feels welcomed and valued
• Providing best practice professional care
• Choices and wishes of the individual and their family are a priority.

 
 
Allergy
Cardiology
Gynecology
Hepathology
High Risk Pregnancy
Infection Clinic
Nephrology
Neurology
Psycho-geriatric
Surgical Division

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