internal medicine departments, the Neurology Department, the Nephrology Department and the Dialysis Unit. The Camelia Botnar Surgical Building was inaugurated in 2003. It contains the hospital's state-of-the-art operating rooms, six patient wards, the Emergency Room, the Intensive Care Unit, and other units. The Saban Pediatric Medical Center, inaugurated in 2008, includes the Pediatric Emergency Room, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the three pediatric inpatient wards, the Pediatric Surgery Department, the Hemato-Oncology Department, and the Department of Eating Disorders. The Saban Birth and Maternity Center was inaugurated in 2011 and includes 25 spacious and protected individual delivery rooms, the gynecology and obstetrics emergency rooms, advanced operating rooms, and five maternity wards. The Legacy Heritage Oncology Center and Dr. Larry Norton Institute, inaugurated in 2018, provides all the services in the field of cancer treatment and research under one roof. Additional buildings in the hospital compound, among them the rehabilitation medicine building, are being constructed these days. At present, there is a rehabilitation department with 20 beds. The hospital is currently working on the project of constructing a rehabilitation building that will allow the expansion of both hospitalization and ambulatory services. Soroka in numbers Soroka Medical Center has over 40 inpatient departments and 1,173 hospital beds. In addition to the hospital departments, there are dozens of other units that provide services to hospitalized and ambulatory patients, in the Emergency Medicine Department, institutes, and outpatient clinics. Soroka's Department of Emergency Medicine, with the largest volume of activity in Israel (more than 250,000 visits annually), is the leading such department in the country according to a health care survey on service and quality conducted by the Ministry of Health. Soroka's delivery room has the most births of any in the country – more than 17,400 babies are born every year. In 2022, 32,000 surgeries were performed at the hospital and 100,000 hospitalizations took place. There were over 600,000 visits to the outpatient clinics. Soroka has some 5,300 employees, including more than 900 doctors, 2,000 nurses, 800 health workers and 500 administrative employees. Patients at Soroka Soroka Medical Center provides medical services to more than one million residents of the Negev who reside in a vast geographical area that comprises 60% of the country. The population of the Negev is relatively young, culturally diverse, largely of low to middle-level socioeconomic status, and has unique health needs. Unique populations cared for at Soroka include Bedouins, who