[citation needed] In 1949, the hospital was renamed to the "Military Medical Academy", the name it bears to this date.

[7] Annually, with 1,200 beds available, about 35,000 patients are hospitalized, about 20,000 surgical interventions are made and more than half a million specialist examinations are performed.

It was designed by the award-winning architects Colonel Josip Osojnik and Slobodan Nikolić.

[8] The construction was finished in 1981 and the hospital officially moved into a new building and began operations on 1 January 1982.

[8] The Military Medical Academy bears many decorations, awards, recognitions and letters of thanks of which the most significant are the following:[9]