Specialist Care for Rare Medical Conditions
This service offers details on all-inclusive medical services created especially to treat a rare disease or condition that has been found in Israel in a small number of individuals exhibiting particular characteristics and symptoms.
Specialist medical services are comprehensive medical services that are specifically suited for treating a rare disease.
- A disease or condition with specific characteristics and symptoms.
- An uncommon disease (very few patients in Israel).
- A condition that requires specialist experience and skill to treat, such as specialized medical personnel training or infrastructure.
Anyone who has a rare disease for which there is a specialist medical service can have the disease treated within this service.
The HMO can provide the treatment to patients who require it in other settings too, on the condition that the possibility to receive the treatment with a specialist medical service has been presented to them.
- Specialized medical services are provided at centers with multidisciplinary teams that are highly skilled and experienced in caring for patients with the specific disease.
The center also serves as a source of up-to-date information in the relevant field for patients, their families, and medical staff.
Below is a list of diseases and the clinics or medical centers that provide specialized medical services for them:
| Disease | Clinic | Medical center | Date of recognition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocular oncology | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 10.07.2023 | |
| Ocular Tumors Unit | Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, Jerusalem | 10.07.2023 | |
| Orthopedic oncology | Ichilov: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | 02.08.2023 | |
| Dual Diagnosis Unit (people with intellectual disabilities and psychopathology) | Beit Issie Shapiro, Ra’anana In collaboration with Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva | 21.05.2023 | |
| Center for Rare Neurological Diseases | Dana-Dwek Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | 09.01.2024 | |
| Intestinal Rehabilitation Clinic | Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa | 17.07.2023 | |
| Center for Rare Diseases | Emek Medical Center, Afula | 22.10.2020 | |
| Center for Rare Diseases | Soroka Medical Center, Beersheba | 22.10.2020 | |
| MAGEN – National Center for Rare Diseases | Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Holon | 10.03.2021 | |
| Institute for Rare Diseases in Children | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 10.03.2021 | |
| Arthrogryposis | National Center for the Treatment of Arthrogryposis in Children | ALYN Hospital, Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center, Jerusalem | 07.05.2023 |
| Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) | Pediatric Pulmonology Unit | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 02.09.2024 |
| Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosi (CTX) | Specialist Clinic for CTX | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 08.10.2023 |
| Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS) Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 29.01.2025 | |
| Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) | HHT Treatment Service | Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva | 07.05.2023 |
| Huntington Huntington disease | Ichilov: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | Medical Division Circular 7/2019 | |
| Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD) Machado-Joseph disease | Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba | 12.01.2023 | |
| Oculo-Pharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD) | Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy and Swallowing Disorders Service | Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera | 09.01.2023 |
| Oculo-Pharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD) | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 04.01.2023 | |
| Familial Dysautonomia (FD) | Familial Dysautonomia Treatment Center (Familial Dysautonomi) | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 21.08.2024 |
| Rett syndrome | Rett Clinic | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 21.08.2024 |
| Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) | 19.09.2024 | ||
| Osteogenesis Imperfecta | National Center for the Treatment of Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Children | ALYN Hospital, Pediatric and Adolescent Rehabilitation Center, Jerusalem | 07.05.2023 |
| Osteogenesis Imperfecta | National Center for the Treatment of Osteogenesis Imperfecta in Children | Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya | 09.07.2023 |
| Phenylketonuria (PKU) | Phenylketonuria Clinic | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 08.01.2024 |
| Prader Willi syndrome (PWS) | National Multidisciplinary Prader-Willi Syndrome Clinic | Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem | 07.05.2023 |
| Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 09.01.2023 | |
| Intestinal failure and intestinal transplantation in children | Schneider Children’s Medical Center, Petah Tikva | 17.07.2023 | |
| Gaucher disease | Gaucher Unit | Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem | 09.01.2023 |
| Lymphedema | North Medical Center (Poriya) | 09.11.2023 | |
| Hereditary skin diseases | Hereditary Skin Diseases Clinic | Ichilov: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | 09.01.2023 |
| PPD spectrum | Clinics for treating mental health conditions in adults with a history of intellectual or behavioral disabilities or developmental psychiatric disorders (PPD spectrum) | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 26.09.2023 |
| Polio | Monitoring and treatment of patients with polio and post-polio syndrome | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 29.01.2025 |
| Polyneuropathy secondary to amyloidosis caused by a mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) gene | Diagnosis and treatment of polyneuropathy secondary to amyloidosis caused by a mutation in the transthyretin (TTR) gene | Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan | 19.01.2023 |
| Complex mental health conditions related to sexual assault | Lotem Center | Ichilov: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | 07.05.2023 |
Please note, if there is any discrepancy or conflict between the information on this page and the law, the provisions of the law prevail.
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