As the very first center for Mental Health in the Middle East and with 130 years of experience, Herzog’s Mental Health Center innovates mental health research, diagnosis and treatment in Israel and around the world. Herzog’s interventions address a variety of behavioral problems ranging from anxiety and depression all the way to obsessive compulsive disorders, psychosis, and dementia.
Offering both hospital and community-based programs, Herzog Medical Center focuses on improving the mental health and well-being of the individual.
Herzog’s Mental Health Division maintains separate Inpatient Psychiatric Departments for men and women, a Community Mental Health Center housed in a newly establish ambulatory center called the Glassman Ambulatory Health Center, as well as Metiv -The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma.
Since the beginning of the current War with Hamas, Herzog Medical Center was chosen by the Government of Israel to serve as a key regional and mental health center. Herzog has expanded its mental health and psychotrauma care by initiating special projects such as a special clinic for discharged soldiers, police and many others in partnership with the Ministry of Defense as well as another clinic for young adults ages 18 – 25. These projects are in order to effectively address the exponential growth in need for immediate mental health care intervention as a result of the War.
Separate Inpatient Psychiatric Departments provide separate inpatient psychiatric care for men and women. It offers advanced treatment for those suffering from schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression, Post Trauma and related mental health challenges.
The newly constructed Glassman Ambulatory Health Center houses all Herzog’s outpatient care. A Community Mental Health Center provides critical non-residential services for 2,000 children, adolescents and adults each month. Interventions address a range of behavioral problems ranging from anxiety and depression all the way to obsessive compulsive disorders, psychosis, and dementia.
helps young adults, aged 18 – 25, who have a heightened risk to develop mental illness or who are already suffering from existing disorders.
provides mental health and psychotrauma care for security personnel, discharged soldiers, police, and fire-fighters from Israel’s south and greater Jerusalem area.
The Center treats the victims of terror attacks, domestic violence, Holocaust survivors and those who have suffered from the rocket attacks in the south and north of Israel. It also provides trauma training to professionals throughout Israel.