Recognized among Newsweek’s World’s Best Hospitals, Sheba Medical Center is advancing reproductive psychiatry through research that is reshaping care for women after stillbirth and pregnancy termination due to fetal abnormalities.
At Sheba Psychiatry, quality is measured across critical points in the patient journey, from treatment planning and family involvement to discharge and continuity of care. National quality indicators defined by Israel’s Ministry of Health provide measurable benchmarks for evaluating performance, while Sheba’s own internal quality measures track additional aspects of care coordination and family communication.
At Sheba Psychiatry, healing extends beyond clinical expertise. As Dr. Linda Levi-Haramati, explains the physical environment is an essential part of the treatment itself. Through thoughtfully designed therapeutic spaces, natural light, green environments, and patient-centered architecture, Sheba creates settings that support recovery, strengthen trust, and help patients engage more fully in their care.
While memory loss is one of dementia’s most recognized symptoms, it is rarely the only one. Emotional and behavioral changes, such as depression, anxiety, apathy, and agitation, are often among its earliest manifestations. At Sheba Medical Center, recognized by Newsweek among the World’s Best Hospitals, Prof. Ramit Ravona-Springer, Director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Unit within Sheba Psychiatry combines clinical expertise and research to improve earlier diagnosis, personalize treatment, and advance the global understanding of dementia by recognizing these psychiatric symptoms as integral to the disease itself.
On June 16th, 2026, Sheba Medical Center hosted a ceremony introducing The Fifth Element, a new day-treatment center at Sheba established around five core elements, such as mind-body therapeutic practices, emotional regulation, and resiliency-building skills, that will provide innovative, nature-based healing to those in recovery from severely traumatic experiences.
