King Saud Medical City

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 Riyadh and currently employs 9,200 healthcare personnel. The hospital has a tremendously high outpatient and inpatient patient turnover and conducted over 20,000 surgical procedures in 2019 alone.

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