The cardiology unit at Mt. Scopus serves the large population living in the northern and eastern part of greater Jerusalem, the Judean hills, the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea area. It includes an intensive coronary care unit, an echocardiography and stress ECG laboratory, as well as a cardiac rehabilitation unit.

About 900 patients are treated in the Intensive Coronary Care Unit annually, for an average of 3.5 hospitalization days. The center was the first in the world to initiate pre-hospital thrombolytic treatment for acute myocardial infarction, leading to reperfusion and myocardial salvage much earlier than otherwise possible.

The Intensive Coronary Care Unit has eight fully monitored beds, two of which are dedicated to intensive medical emergencies such as septic shock or respiratory failure, and six for coronary emergencies. Bedside monitors allow continuous ECG, arterial and pulmonary pressure, and oxygen saturation monitoring. A fluoroscopy room is located nearby for patients in need of temporary or permanent pacemaker implantations, pulmonary pressure catheter insertions, atrioventricular ablations and defibrillator implantations.

Hadassah-Mt. Scopus is unique in that it is both an academic and community hospital, working closely  with local family physicians. The Cardiology Unit provides consultation services by telephone and ECG facsimile, allowing rapid diagnosis and work-up of patients.

The non-invasive Echocardiography Laboratory is furnished with state-of-the-art equipment, as is the stress ECG laboratory, which provides fast diagnosis of coronary artery disease for ambulatory and hospitalized patients.

In the Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, patients are treated early after coronary bypass or valvular operations, myocardial infarction or coronary angioplasty. Patients are monitored by an ECG telemetry system that assures full patient coverage during the early stages of convalescence.