King Saud Medical City

King Saud Medical City مدينة الملك سعود الطبية
Ministry of Health
Geography
Location	Riyadh, Al Riyadh, Ar Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Coordinates	24°37′40″N 46°41′25″E / 24.62778°N 46.69028°E / 24.62778; 46.69028
Organisation
Care system	Public
Funding	Government hospital
Type	District General, Teaching
Affiliated university	- King Saud University - Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University - Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University - Dar Al Uloom University
Services
Standards	Accreditation from International Joint Commission (JCI) obtained on 22 Jan 2013
Emergency department	Level I Trauma Center
Beds	1500
History
Opened	13 Oct 1956
Links
Website	www.ksmc.med.sa
Lists	Hospitals in Saudi Arabia

King Saud Medical City (KSMC), also known as Shemaisi Hospital, is a large public district general hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was founded in 1956 and is one of the largest tertiary care centers in Saudi Arabia, with a total bed capacity of 1,500 including 200 ICU beds. The 102-bed emergency department is the busiest in the country, and the hospital serves as the largest referral center in Saudi Arabia for Orthopedic surgery, Trauma surgery and Neurosurgery. It is part of the first healthcare cluster in the city of Riyadh, and currently employs 9,200 healthcare personnel.^[1] The hospital has a tremendously high patient turnover, both outpatient and inpatient, and conducted over 20,000 surgical procedures in 2019 alone.^[2]

KSMC is also one of the largest medical education, training and research centers in Saudi Arabia, with postgraduate residency and specialist training programs in medicine and surgical subspecialties as well as multiple medical school affiliations.

The medical complex itself houses the General Hospital, as well as the Pediatric Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Dental Center and the King Fahad Charity Kidney Center. KSMC's core competencies are Emergency Care, Trauma, Orthopedics, Burn Care, Bariatric Surgery, Dental Care and Critical Care.