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.

[1] The hospital has a 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.

[citation needed] KSMC's ICU is considered one of the largest in the world.

[5] In 2020, the hospital launched a digital operating theater incorporating interventional radiology and robotic surgery.