Hadassah reaches deal with hospital boss

Hadassah: The Women’s Zionist Organization of America and the director general of its hospital in Jerusalem have reached what both sides are describing as an “amicable agreement” about the doctor’s future.

Shlomo Mor-Yosef and Hadassah officials met March 4 in New York. Although Hadassah says it won’t announce the agreement until later this month,  the Jerusalem Post reported that Mor-Yosef’s contract had been extended by about two years, through 2012, when the 14-story tower at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem Ein Kerem is slated to open. Bar-Yosef was in on the planning of the tower since its inception.

Mor-Yosef had tendered his resignation in January, and it was accepted by the hospital’s board and Hadassah, but it caused a stir among the hospital’s staff. The doctors’ union at the hospital, in protesting the resignation, had claimed that Mor-Yosef was pushed out by Hadassah leaders in the United States. Hadassah officials countered that Mor-Yosef resigned on his own. — jta