Yad Sarah's accessible hotel opens its doors to displaced Israelis

Yad Sarah, the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, which provides free or nominal-fee health and home care services, has opened its Yirmiyahu 33' Rehabilitation and Wellness Hotel to disabled and elderly people who have been displaced since the start of Israel's war with Hamas on October 7th. 

The initiative is part of the NGO's country-wide Emergency Wartime Relief Campaign, and it represents just one of the many hotels that are currently occupied by displaced Israelis, with the crucial difference that the Yad Sarah facility is designed to be accessible for the elderly and people with disabilities.

The hotel includes specialized nursing care and deluxe rehabilitation facilities, including full-board dining facilities, medical equipment, adjustable hospital beds, mobile hoists, medicines, and a volunteer-led team that is available 24/7. Its amenities and infrastructure are designed to be fully accessible for wheelchair users and those who have other physical disabilities and conditions.

The hotel is also host to the Center for Wellness and Respite for families coping with the tragedy of stillbirth. The center, the first of its kind in Israel and possibly the world, has hosted 14 women or couples since the start of the war.

Accessible hotel is one initiative among many

Yad Sarah has mobilized across the country since the breakout of the war three weeks ago. Volunteer drivers of the organization's wheelchair-accessible van unit have evacuated around 100 residents from combat zones in the South. The organization has established three new forward-facing branches among Dead Sea hotels, at Ben Zion Hospital in Haifa, and in Bat Yam. The organization has helped urgent care services expedite the discharge of war wounded by providing them with home care. This, in turn, prevents overcrowding in hospitals. 

Yad Sarah has been providing care at the Frenkel Emergency Center free of charge for evacuees, and it has delivered over NIS 250,000 worth of critical medicines to threatened areas at no cost, it says. |

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