The conference was opened by the hospital’s Administrative Director, Rafi Koren, who spoke about the many challenges faced by the administrative and housekeeping sector, upon which the medical, nursing and allied health care professions rely. Koren spoke about the great pride he takes in leading the staff to realize the medical center's vision for development.
The speakers included the Chairman of the Administrative and Housekeeping Employees Workers Committee, Chen Korkus, who is Head of Groundskeeping and Gardening, as well as Mr. Itzik Itzhaki, Chairman of Histadrut Hadera District. They both emphasized the extremely important work being done every day, every hour by all the teams of workers in this field.
Administrative Director of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Rafi Koren, at the opening of the conference
Over the course of the day, participants learned about the extensive activity in the administrative and housekeeping fields through 30 posters presented in the area next to the entrance to the conference hall that summarized unique projects by the various departments. The posters presented the work done behind the scenes, and highlighted the innovations, improvement processes, streamlining, financial savings and more.
Later in the day, there were several TED-style talks, including managing communication crises in medicine, lowering costs of endoscope disinfection, improving transportation processes, leveraging analytical abilities for security, implementing an innovative robot to onboard new employees, predatory journals and developing business intelligence.
The conference was closed with a guest lecture by Lt. Col. (Res) Yaniv Fogel, Administrative Director of Wolfson Medical Center, who spoke about hostage rescue missions over the years.
It was beneficial and interesting!
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