Sheba Continuum:
Hospital Emergency Preparedness Institute
Keeping Hospitals Running When It Matters Most
When Closing the Doors
Isn’t an Option
From pandemics and earthquakes to armed conflict, mass-casualty events, and cyberattacks, every medical institution must prepare for emergencies, and across Europe and the US, that readiness is fast becoming a regulatory requirement.
Few have a proven ability to keep care going when worst-case scenarios move from plan to real life. Sheba Medical Center is among them.
The Continuum Institute turns our firsthand experience into research, training, and blueprints that help hospitals, healthcare networks, and national health systems worldwide maintain care under any conditions.
Why Partner With Sheba?
Sheba, Israel’s largest medical center and one of Newsweek’s World’s Top 10 Hospitals, has long held a vision of a world where every hospital maintains continuity of patient care through any emergency.
During a recent national emergency, Sheba moved more than 35 departments to protected facilities within 72 hours, remaining clinically resilient throughout. In tandem, the Humanitarian & Disaster Response Center established a fully equipped, 100-bed field hospital underground, drawing on experience from missions abroad, such as to Ukraine in 2022, where its teams treated more than 6,000 patients in six weeks.
What makes this operational effectiveness possible is a management philosophy, not simply a set of tools. Its clearest expression is the Care Control Center, which gives leadership full, real-time visibility of beds, operating rooms, imaging, and patient flow.
Sheba’s comprehensive model, tested under challenging conditions and continuously improved by post-emergency debriefing, can be adapted to individual institutions and entire health systems seeking to strengthen their crisis resilience.
See how Sheba kept care going through a national emergency.
Innovation That Expands Capacity
Through ARC, its innovation ecosystem, Sheba develops and deploys clinical solutions that strengthen the ability of hospitals to do more with their existing resources, a critical capability when demand for care surges.
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Sheba Beyond:
Israel’s first fully virtual hospital, delivering screening, rehabilitation, and remote hospitalization services that maintain patient-clinician coordination while lowering inpatient volume.
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AISAP AI:
An FDA-cleared, AI-powered point-of-care ultrasound platform that enables clinicians, regardless of sonography experience, to perform cardiac scans at the bedside and streamline patient flow.
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Ward-Level Care at Home:
Round-the-clock remote monitoring and predictive algorithms let women with high-risk pregnancies remain connected to clinical teams from home, freeing inpatient capacity without lowering standards.
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Autonomous Medication Delivery:
Self-navigating robots bring medication from the pharmacy to hospital wards, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care.
Our Approach
Sheba’s Continuum Institute rests on a single foundation: experience proven in real emergencies. This expertise supports three key pillars, rarely brought together under one roof:
Research
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Ongoing studies grounded in real emergencies, including a nationwide analysis of trauma surge across seven Level I trauma centers, and an international textbook on hospital emergency preparedness, now in development.
Education
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Courses, simulations, and drills, from mass-casualty events to cyberattacks, led by Sheba’s experts either on-site or at MSR, the Israel Center for Medical Simulation.
Blueprint & Implementation
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Tailored gap analysis across clinical, operational, and cyber resilience, mapped to leading international frameworks, a detailed blueprint, and end-to-end support through implementation.
Emergency Preparedness Gap Analysis
Through ARC, its innovation ecosystem, Sheba develops and deploys clinical solutions that strengthen the ability of hospitals to do more with their existing resources, a critical capability when demand for care surges.
Medical Operations:
Capacity, patient flow, and how clinical services continue under surge conditions.
Emergency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs):
Clear, tested protocols for each scenario, from activation to recovery.
Cybersecurity and IT Infrastructure Resilience:
Keeping clinical systems and data secure and running through an attack or outage.
Personnel Crisis Management Training and Education:
Preparing teams and leaders to make decisions and act under pressure.
Staff Resilience:
Supporting staff and their families so teams can keep working through prolonged emergencies.
Critical Infrastructure Resilience:
Sustaining power, water, and essential supplies when external systems fail.
Our Process
Each collaboration follows a clear path, from our first conversation to a written blueprint tailored to your organization’s risks, resources, and priorities. Implementation can then be led by your own teams with Sheba’s guidance, or managed by Sheba from start to finish, according to your preference. In addition, the Continuum Institute can support ministries and funding bodies in designing programs, whether for a single hospital or a network of facilities.
Stages
- Initial Consultation
- Information and Documentation Review
- Preparation and Scheduling
- On-Site Joint Gap Analysis
- Detailed Report
- Tailored Blueprint Development
- Implementation
Our Leadership
Dr. Shachar D. Shapira
Head, Sheba Continuum: Hospital Emergency Preparedness Institute
Deputy Director General for Ambulatory Services and Medical Director of the Humanitarian and Disaster Response Center at Sheba, Dr. Shapira stands at the helm of the Continuum Institute. He holds advanced degrees in both Health and Business Administration as well as National Security, and is an Israeli National Defense College alumnus.
Dr. Shapira served as the Israeli Air Force’s Surgeon General, has led medical missions abroad, has published widely in leading scientific journals, and continues to advance the fields of hospital resilience and continuity of care worldwide.
Start the Conversation
Whether you lead a hospital, a healthcare network, or a ministry of health or defense, we’d be glad to discuss your emergency preparedness priorities.
