King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

About King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) is a 2415 -bed tertiary/quaternary care hospital with facilities in Riyadh, Jeddah & Madinah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Established in 1970 on land donated by the late King Faisal Bin Abdulaziz, in the capital city of Riyadh and officially opened in April 1975 by King Khalid Bin Abdulaziz with a current total land area of 921,000 square meters KFSH&RC employs over 16,000 employees from over 63 different nationalities. Highly specialized in inpatient and outpatient medical care, KFSH&RC participates in many clinical and research studies; it is consistently recognized and ranked as one of the nation's top hospital specializing in Oncology, Organ Transplantation, Cardiovascular Diseases Neurosciences and Genetic Diseases. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre provides the level of specialized health care in an robust and striving educational and research environment. KFSH&RC is accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) and is proud to be one of only six hospitals outside of the USA to have achieved Magnet Hospital status awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Centre (ANCC) and more recently, KFSH&RC was the first hospital outside of Northern America to be awarded Stage 7 HIMSS Electronic Medical Records, the highest level of using Electronic Health Records.