Samsung Medical Center

Hospital in Seoul, South Korea

37°29′17.4″N 127°5′7.7″E / 37.488167°N 127.085472°E / 37.488167; 127.085472

Samsung Medical Center
Hangul	삼성의료원
Hanja	三星醫療院
Revised Romanization	Samseong uiryowon
McCune–Reischauer	Samsŏng ryowŏn

Samsung Medical Center (SMC; Korean: 삼성의료원) is a tertiary hospital located in Irwon-Dong of Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea. SMC is composed of Samsung Seoul Hospital, Kangbook Samsung Hospital, Samsung Changwon Hospital, and Samsung Life Sciences Research Center. SMC was founded on November 9, 1994.

In 2015, it had a capacity of 1,979 beds and treated 85,208 inpatients and 2,027,211 outpatients.^[1]

In 2015, the hospital suffered an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome,^[2] and was criticised for its poor handling of the incident.^[3]

References

^ "Facts & Statistics - About SMC - Samsung Medical Center". 삼성서울병원. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
^ "South Korea hospital 'is source of many Mers cases'". BBC News. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
^ "Samsung stigmatized with MERS". The Korea Times. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2021-07-17.

External links

Official website

Samsung

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