Medical Care, a rehabilitative medical center in Bat Yam operating since 2022, is a groundbreaking facility in the Israeli healthcare landscape. It is the first center in the country to provide integrative care—treating the body, mind, and spirit as one.
The center specializes in rehabilitation for patients aged 18 and above who have experienced strokes, undergone orthopedic surgeries, are ventilated, or are in a coma. It houses 9 departments across 9 floors, with a total of 350 inpatient beds. The departments are divided into young adult and geriatric rehabilitation, complex nursing care, post-operative rehabilitation, and more. The center is headed by Dr. Tamara Brauner, a specialist in rehabilitation medicine.
Medical Care operates a comprehensive physical and psychological rehabilitation system based on the HeartMath method, which has been proven effective in treating trauma.
The center also includes an outpatient rehabilitation clinic offering a wide range of services such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and psychological rehabilitation. Adjacent to the facility is a Resilience Center, which offers alternative healing methods for spiritual and emotional recovery. Additional services include post-operative recovery programs, diabetes and heart disease treatments, and a day hospitalization center providing both physical and emotional therapies without the need for extended admission.
A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
Medical Care was established with the goal of becoming Israel’s leading rehabilitative and integrative medical center, introducing a unique and innovative rehabilitation protocol that empowers and enhances recovery. This protocol combines advanced medical rehabilitation, based on cutting-edge conventional medicine, with supportive integrative care that treats the body, mind, and spirit—focusing on the emotional aspects of illness, injury, and recovery.
Within this integrated protocol, patients and their families receive a personalized treatment plan that combines the highest level of advanced medical care with supportive, empowering emotional therapy. This approach strengthens motivation, helping patients navigate the challenging and often painful rehabilitation process, and return to a life of meaning and quality.
Integrative medicine views the body as a unified whole, not merely a collection of organs, and sees the human being as a complete system—body, mind, and spirit—each profoundly and fundamentally interconnected. According to integrative medicine, it is not enough to treat only the physical symptoms; true health and well-being, known globally as Wellness, require addressing the full spectrum of body, mind, and spirit.
The war of October 7, 2023, along with the preceding global COVID-19 crisis, has propelled the integrative approach to the forefront of modern medicine. These events made it undeniably clear: mental health significantly influences physical health. Unresolved stress, anxiety, and trauma contribute to illness and weaken both immunity and resilience.
We founded IMFA with a vision to reshape the landscape of healthcare in Israel—toward a holistic medical model in which treatment protocols include both physical and emotional care simultaneously. IMFA is a non-profit organization, established to leverage this window of opportunity:
To shift public perception of healthcare in Israel and around the world
To broaden the framework of conventional medicine
And to establish integrative medicine as a legitimate and accessible path for anyone seeking it
I invite each and every one of you who feel connected to this vision—who understand that real healing encompasses not just the body but also the mind and the spirit—to join us, contribute, and take part in promoting this revolution in health and Wellness.
As always, at Medical Care, our new rehabilitation unit will uphold the same standard: providing each patient—and their families—with the most advanced and holistic rehabilitative care. Our goal is to heal both body and mind, addressing the deep trauma brought on by injury and war.
Through our integrated protocol, patients receive world-class medical care alongside empowering emotional support, increasing their motivation to endure the painful and demanding rehabilitation journey—and return to a life of meaning and quality.
Even family members and our medical staff receive emotional support treatments, to help them build resilience and stability so they can continue to care for others at the highest level.
I warmly invite you—patients, family members, and outstanding professionals from all fields of physical and emotional rehabilitation—to join us in creating a complete, innovative, and groundbreaking circle of healing at Medical Care.
At Medical Care, we are always one step ahead.
The integrative approach doesn’t see only the injury that needs healing—it sees the whole person as a combination of body, mind, and spirit. This approach promotes holistic rehabilitation alongside medical treatment, forming a solid, empowering foundation for emotional and spiritual recovery. The IMFA Association (Integrative Medical Foundation Association) was founded from a deep vision to advance integrative medicine in Israel and around the world.
Now more than ever, there is no need to explain why it’s essential to implement a medical protocol that treats not only the physical illness or injury, but also the trauma that comes with it.
In these difficult days of war, IMFA has mobilized to quickly establish a comprehensive rehabilitation system. This includes a large treatment center, a Resilience and Trauma Center, and departments for general and respiratory rehabilitation, particularly for head injuries. This system will add approximately 12% more rehabilitation beds to the current national supply—bringing an additional 130 beds that will enable treatment for around 1,000 patients per year.
Since 2023, every patient at Medical Care completes a quality-of-life questionnaire and undergoes an interview with a health consultant, who creates a personalized wellness plan. This plan includes resilience workshops, emotional support treatments, personalized nutrition, and complementary medicine.
The “Care for the Caregiver” program provides emotional support to both family members and medical staff. It includes resilience workshops aimed at strengthening internal resilience, based on collaboration with the HeartMath Institute (USA).
We practice an integrative rehabilitation approach based on a holistic medical protocol that combines the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of healing. Supported by Helsinki research and scientifically proven effective, the method places special emphasis on emotional trauma—acknowledging its long-term impact on a patient’s quality of life. Physically, it has shown to significantly influence the recovery process and enhance long-term well-being.
Over 3,500 satisfied participants have paved their way to balance and inner healing through the InHeal method.
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The clinic is located in a central area near the light rail station, Ha’atzmaut Station (red line), making it easy to reach from Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan, and Tel Aviv.
