King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh

King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh commenced its operations in May 1983. Since then, it has continued expanding, while providing services for a rapidly growing patient population in all of its catchments areas. Today, King Fahad National Guard Hospital has evolved to be part of the King Abdulaziz Medical City with many other prominent medical centres. King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, since it was announced in February 2001, has established itself as a centre of excellence. In 2002, KAMC-Riyadh increased its bed capacity to 691 beds, with 25 potential operational beds in Ward 19, while having a total number of 132 phantom beds. The Emergency Care Centre continues to be the best trauma care centre in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is ranked as the fourth centre outside the United States, to provide the program of PHTLS (Pre-Hospital Trauma And Life Support Program).

Ambulatory Care Services & Primary Health Care Services provide preventative services including health education & behavioural modification to adopt healthy lifestyles. Surgical and Critical Units include an outstanding Burn Unit, Surgical ICU, an Endoscopy Unit, Operating Rooms, and Neuro-Surgical and Surgical Units. The Long-Term Care Rehabilitation Centre was also opened. Home Health Care Services were also expanded. The concept of the hospital-based service of Home Health Care has been in place in other international Health Centres, for decades. However, the concept has been introduced on a limited basis, to serve as palliative care and pain control, at home services.

 

Because we believe faithfully in solidarity and sustainability, international consultants in the field of Healthcare Quality were actively involved in a needs assessment plan to launch our Total Quality Assurance and Improvement Program, through which each member of NGHA is committed to the highest standards. NGHA is successful in providing the lowest mortality and morbidity rates among the patient population despite the fact that the Emergency Care Centre continues to be the Level I trauma centre for the Kingdom.



NGHA managed to successfully found the College of Nursing and Allied Medical Sciences at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh where there are over 125 Saudi females enrolled in their Bachelor of Nursing Programs.


As NGHA is leading the evolution of healthcare systems, it has the privilege of operating the Misys Healthcare Systems (Per-Se') Clinical Informatics System that will mainstream and standardize all the medical records' documentation, and expedite processing requests to minimize the amount of paper wasted, through a virtual knowledge system. This in turn will indirectly reduce the patient's length of stay.