Facilities
Samsung Medical Center consists of a hospital and a cancer center. The hospital is located in an intelligent building with floor space of more than 200,000 square meters and 20 floors aboveground and 5 floors underground, housing 40 departments, 10 specialist centers, 120 special clinics, and 1,306 beds. On the other hand, the 655-bed Cancer Center has 11 floors aboveground and 8 floors underground, with floor space of over 100,000 square meters. SMC is a tertiary hospital manned by approximately 7,400 staff including over 1,200 doctors and 2,300 nurses. Since SMC was opened in 1994, SMC has become a Koreas representative medical institution. It has provided medical treatments for 16 million outpatients, and SMC is giving treatments to average of 8,000 patients daily. SMC is leading to make further developments in the medical field in Korea and is planning to build the Samsung International Medical Center by 2015. In March 2010, SMC announced the Project to become a “globally leading” hospital in the medical market. Equipped with advanced medica service infrastructure including outstanding medical staff, order communication system (OCS), picture archiving communication system (PACS), clinical pathology automation system, and logistics automation system, SMC is defining a new hospital culture in Korea by being the best hospital in terms of hi-tech medical services and through the provision of genuine patient-centered medical services (shortest waiting time, hospital that does not require guardians).
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