KSU supports "Good Health and Well-being" through campaigns, events, and exhibitions that raise awareness about health and encourage healthy lifestyles among its students and community at large.
Good Health and Well-Being:
1. Advancing Medical Education & Specializing Training
2. Comprehensive Value-Based Healthcare
3. A Doctor for Each Family Initiative
4. HYAT Center: Combating National Center for Sudden Death
5. Community Health Outreach
6. Award-Wining Health Volunteering
7. Transformative Impact on Global Hearing Health
Key Accomplishments:
The Medical City includes three major hospitals with ~1,800 beds.
KSUMC Becomes First Saudi Public Health Facility to Receive UN Accreditation.
Oncology, family medicine, diabetes, cardiac, sleep medicine, cochlear surgery, etc.
Hospital of the Year 2024, CBAHI, Canadian Accreditation, American Heart Association.
Ranked highly in SCIMAGO and Brand Finance.
10+ patented medical devices, 261+ scientific papers.
First smart cochlear implant, first corneal endothelial transplant.
‘Doctor for Every Family’ initiative serving 60,000+ families, >1M outpatient visits yearly.
High satisfaction but needs improvement in workload and communication.
31% reduction in energy use, 47,000+ trees, CO₂ emissions reduced by 2,746 tons.
31% of leadership roles held by women, 5,000+ volunteer hours.
Saved SAR 528M through efficiency projects, strong governance standards.
Alignment with SDG 3 Targets:
- Target 3.4: Reduce premature mortality from NCDs → Specialized centers.
- Target 3.8: Universal access to health services → Expanded hospitals and services.
- Target 3.b: Support R&D for medicines and vaccines → Patents, publications.
- Target 3.5 & 3.3: Mental health and communicable diseases → Student well-being, preventive programs.
- Target 3.9: Environmental health risks → Green initiatives and waste reduction.
KSUMC Achievements:
KSUMC participate in "Global Health Forum 2024"
The first Digital Health Innovation Hackathon 2025 organized by KSUMC.
Launching the Innovation Lab 2024 "Health Volunteer Incubator" at KSUMC.
The first smart cochlear implant was performed KSUMC 2025.
KSUMC in 2024 was futured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest dental hospital in the world. (1), (2)
Prof. Ahmed Hersi one of the Best CEOs according to "Beckers Hospital Review" in 2023.
Dr. Latifa Al-Dakhil as Medical Director at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) in 2024.
In 2024 KSUMC Obtains Canadian accreditation for its fourth consecutive session