King Abdulla Medical City

Late King Abdulla bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia pledged one Billion Saudi Riyals ($ 260 Million) to build a Medical City for the Arabian Gulf University to serve the people of Bahrain and of the GCC. In return, His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa AlKhalifa of Bahrain pledged land of one square kilometer.

The university held several local and regional workshops to define the concept of the medical city. This was followed by a market feasibility study to define the size and specialties of the hospital based on Bahrain’s data. An engineering company was contracted to define the Design Brief, which was the basis for the hospital design, which was undertaken by TAHPI, an Australian design company specialized in hospital design.
The design includes three separate buildings, connected by walkways. A building for Emergency and Imaging on the ground floor, and clinics and physician offices on the top 3 floors. The second building includes storage, Central Sterile supply, Morgue, central pharmacy and main kitchen on the ground floor, the two upper floors house the Academic center, Cafeteria, Administrative offices, Operating theaters, and Clinical laboratories.

The third and largest building is an eight-story tower housing 274 single patient rooms divided into the various specialties on separate floors, with the ground floor occupied by the rehabilitation center, the IT and communication center, safety and security offices, and an Obstetrical triage suite.

The hospital will cover all the four main specialties of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, with all their main subspecialties. It includes 37 ICU beds, 32 negative isolation rooms, and eight positive. It also includes 12 bariatric beds, two Royal suites and 10 VIP suites.

The Hospital is designed to be a teaching hospital with rooms on every floor dedicated to student work as well as a conference room. It is designed to be totally digital with all instrumentation talking to each other. As a University teaching hospital, the King Abdulla university hospital provides more than a regular hospital, by combine clinical care with medical education and scientific research to meet the renewed health care needs of patients in line with the best medical practices.

The Arabian Gulf University views the King Abdulla bin Abdul Aziz teaching hospital as shining model of innovative healthcare, training, and transformative research and hopes that it will become recognized as a leading academic Medical Center in the Middle East.