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Samsung Medical Center

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Samsung Medical Center
삼성서울병원
Formation9 November 1994
Location
  • South Korea
President & CEO
Park Seung Woo
Staff6718 (2024)
Websitehttps://www.samsunghospital.com/en/

Samsung Medical Center (SMC; Korean: 삼성서울병원) is a tertiary hospital in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea. It opened in 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

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

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