Koç University Hospital
A teaching and research hospital opened in September 2014 on the Koç University Health Sciences Campus, within the Vehbi Koç Foundation's health group.
- 2014
- Opened
- 410
- Single inpatient rooms (2019)
- 55
- Intensive care beds (2019)
- 23
- Operating rooms (2019)
Self-reported by the hospital · read 14 October 2026
One university hospital on a health sciences campus, with its figures printed as of 2019. No accreditation is named on the pages we read, so none is claimed here. It has a sister hospital in the same family: American Hospital Istanbul.
What Koç University Hospital is
The hospital says it opened in September 2014 as a training and research hospital. As of 2019 it prints 410 single inpatient rooms, 55 intensive care beds, 23 operating rooms and 44 chemotherapy units, across 50 departments and 13 centres. The Health Sciences Campus is given as 220,000 square meters.
It sits within the Vehbi Koç Foundation's health organisation, Koç Healthcare, which also includes American Hospital Istanbul; the pages we read do not state ownership outright.
International patients
The hospital's international patients link leads to Koç Healthcare rather than to a unit of its own. Koç Healthcare lists representatives in North Macedonia, the USA, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan. None is listed in the UK, Germany or the Netherlands.
A discrepancy on its contact page
The contact email shown on the page reads kuhinfo@kuh.ku.edu.tr, but the link behind it opens a message to info@amerikanhastanesi.org. Ask which address reaches the hospital's own team.
Claims, and their registers
| Claim | Applies to | Status | Check |
|---|---|---|---|
| JCI accreditation | Not stated on the pages we read | To check | JCI public register[4] |
| "Center of Excellence" and "international quality certificates" | Wording only, nothing named | To check | Ask for the certificates by name; TÜSKA list[5] |
| Ministry of Health licence and health-tourism authorisation | Facility | To check | Ministry list[2] |
Questions to ask
Your named consultant
who operates, and how many of your procedure they perform each year.
A coordinator in your language
a named person, with hours that work from your own country.
Follow-up after you fly home
who you contact, and how your records reach your own doctor.
Every charge, in writing
one itemised quote, with exclusions stated before you commit.
Not yet established
What we are still confirming. We update this page as each is settled.
- Which accreditations the hospital holds — the pages print general wording only
- A street address for the hospital — only the Koç Healthcare head office is printed (Nişantaşı), which is the group, not the hospital
- Capacity figures after 2019
- Which email address is the hospital's own
- Health-tourism authorisation and contracting entity
- Prices and outcome data — none are published
Asked often
Is Koç University Hospital JCI accredited?
The pages we read name no accreditation. Do not assume one; ask the hospital for the certificate and find it on the register.[4]
How is it related to American Hospital Istanbul?
Both belong to Koç Healthcare, the health organisation of the Vehbi Koç Foundation. They are separate hospitals.
How current are the capacity figures?
They are labelled 2019 on the hospital's own page; ask for current numbers.
Can I see prices?
No prices are published on the pages we read. Ask for one itemised quote, with exclusions, before you commit.
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- First published 14 October 2026
- Last reviewed October 2026
- Next review January 2027
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LinkedIn →Sources
Every register and professional body this guide relies on, so that the figures above can be checked at the organisation that publishes them rather than taken from us.
- 1.T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı — Ministry of Health of Türkiye
Licenses every clinic and hospital operating in Türkiye, and issues the separate health tourism authorisation a facility needs before it may treat international patients.
- 2.T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı, Sağlık Turizmi Daire Başkanlığı — authorised facilities and intermediary agenciesOfficial register
The Ministry's own index of who holds a health tourism authorisation certificate, linking the facility list and the intermediary list. This is the page to check a clinic against, and checking it takes about two minutes.
- 3.USHAŞ — International Health Services
The Ministry of Health's own body for international patients. Publishes which facilities hold health tourism authorisation, and takes complaints from patients treated in Türkiye.
- 4.Joint Commission International — accredited organisations registerThird-party accreditor
The public register of JCI-accredited hospitals. A hospital's accreditation is either in this register or it is not, which makes it checkable in a way that a badge on the hospital's own website is not.
- 5.TÜSKA — Türkiye Sağlık Hizmetleri Kalite ve Akreditasyon EnstitüsüOfficial register
The accreditation institute's own notice to authorised facilities about the 31 December 2026 deadline, and what it says will happen to those that have not completed the process. Its register of accredited organisations is where a claim to hold the accreditation can be checked.
Listing a body here is not a claim of endorsement by it. Where a figure could not be traced to a source of this kind, it was removed from the guide rather than published unattributed.
From the hospital's own pages (self-reported)
- Koç University HospitalRead 14 October 2026
- Corporate pageRead 14 October 2026
- Koç HealthcareRead 14 October 2026
- Koç Healthcare InternationalRead 14 October 2026