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The Listed 100, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah

King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah is a 751-bed medical city run by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNGHA), serving the Western Region.

Beds
751MNGHA website, page last modified June 2026
Opened
1982
Operator
Ministry of National Guard Health AffairsMNGHA
Accreditation
Joint Commission InternationalMNGHA news, February 2016

Lists this hospital appears on

  • Position as printed11 Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026: Saudi Arabia (opens the publisher’s list in a new tab) Published by Newsweek and Statista on 25 February 2026, edition 2026 Statista scored hospitals within each country on hospital quality metrics (40 per cent), peer recommendations from an online survey of medical experts (30 per cent national, 5 per cent international), patient experience data (18.5 per cent) and its PROMs Implementation Survey (6.5 per cent), and lists specialised hospitals separately without a rank.

The Healthcare Daily does not rank hospitals. Positions are the publishers’ own.

About the hospital

King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah is operated by the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNGHA), which lists it among its campuses alongside King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh. The MNGHA website states a capacity of 751 beds and says the medical city was founded in July 1982.

MNGHA lists projects at the site including a Cardiology Center, an outpatient clinic centre, an expansion of all emergency facilities, a major expansion of the Princess Norah bint Abdulrahman Al Faisal Oncology Center, a bone marrow transplant centre, a Burns Unit and a nursing college. MNGHA’s Western Region primary healthcare centres work alongside the hospital. MNGHA reported in February 2016 that the medical city had received Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation.

Facts

Beds
751 beds (MNGHA website, page last modified June 2026)
Opened
1982
Accreditation
Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation and certification (MNGHA news, February 2016)
Name on the Newsweek list
Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs - King Abdulaziz Medical City - Jeddah
Postal address
P.O. Box 9515, Jeddah 21423
Telephone
+966-12-2266666
Region served
Western Region (MNGHA)
Centres named by MNGHA (2016)
King Faisal Cardiac Center; Princess Noura Oncology Center
Sister campus
King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh (MNGHA)

Questions readers ask

Who runs King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah?

The Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNGHA) runs it as one of its campuses.

How many beds does King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah have?

The MNGHA website states a capacity of 751 beds.

Where is King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah?

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Its postal address is P.O. Box 9515, Jeddah 21423.

Sources

Facts are taken from the pages listed below, and list positions from each publisher’s own list. Profile last checked 17 October 2026.

  1. King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah / MNGHA
  2. JCI Awards KAMC-J International Accreditation and Certification / MNGHA
  3. Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026: Saudi Arabia

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