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 "names": {
  "name": "Memorial Şişli Hospital",
  "aliases": [
   "Memorial Şişli Hastanesi",
   "Memorial Healthcare Group",
   "Memorial Hospitals Group"
  ],
  "said": "SHISH-li, the Istanbul district it stands in, on Piyalepaşa Bulvarı. The group is Memorial; the Şişli hospital is the one that opened first and the one the group's firsts are dated from."
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  "west-asia"
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  "iso2": "TR",
  "ownership": "private",
  "founded": 2000,
  "specialty": [
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   "fertility",
   "oncology",
   "bone marrow transplantation",
   "cardiac surgery",
   "bariatric surgery"
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   "ivf",
   "icsi",
   "pgt",
   "kidney-transplant",
   "liver-transplant",
   "bone-marrow-transplant",
   "gastric-sleeve"
  ],
  "status": "open",
  "languages": [
   "Turkish",
   "English",
   "Arabic",
   "Russian",
   "Romanian",
   "Albanian"
  ]
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  "what": "The first hospital of the Memorial Healthcare Group, opened in 2000 on Piyalepaşa Bulvarı in Şişli, Istanbul, and the first hospital in Türkiye to take Joint Commission International accreditation — the 21st in the world, by the group's own count. This record is the Şişli hospital and pins it; where a figure belongs to the whole group of twelve hospitals, the record says so.",
  "story": "Memorial Şişli opened in 2000. Its IVF, andrology and genetics centre followed, then the heart health centre, then the JCI certificate that the group's founder Turgut Aydın still leads with: \"We accomplished great things with pride of obtaining JCI Accreditation Certificate, which is the international quality certificate in the Health Care, as first in Turkey and 21st in the world.\"\n\nIn March 2004 the hospital took the first Ministry of Health licence granted to a private Turkish hospital for liver and kidney transplantation and the laboratory services that go with them. Its transplant centre, its tissue typing and immunology laboratory — the first private Turkish laboratory accredited by the European Federation for Immunogenetics — and its IVF laboratory, accredited by TÜRKAK to ISO 15189, are the units the group dates its firsts from.\n\nThe group grew outward: Ataşehir, Antalya, Diyarbakır, Kayseri, Ankara, Bahçelievler, and information offices in Baku, Tirana, Sarajevo, Tashkent, Abuja, Constanța and Northern Cyprus. *Inference —* the office list is a map of where the patients come from, and it points east and south rather than west.\n\nThe group reports patients from 167 countries. That is a count of countries, not of patients, and the group publishes neither a patient count nor a price.",
  "how": "An enquiry reaches the group rather than the hospital, through one of the overseas information offices or the website, and is placed at whichever of the twelve hospitals holds the programme. *Trade practice —* transplant and fertility work, which is what Memorial is known for abroad, is quoted after records are read and not from a list.\n\nThe Şişli hospital's own page links health packages — cancer control programmes, heart control programmes — behind a contact form. No figure is printed on it.",
  "today": "As of 17 September 2026 the group states 12 hospitals, 92 medical units, more than 7,300 employees and more than 1,510 beds across the group, and patients from 167 countries. The Şişli hospital is reported elsewhere at 252 beds on a 53,000 square metre site; that figure is not on the hospital's own page read here and is carried as unverified."
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  "lon": 28.972695,
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 "address": {
  "street": "Piyalepaşa Bulvarı, Okmeydanı, Şişli",
  "city": "Istanbul",
  "country": "TR",
  "postcode": "34385"
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  "beds": 1510,
  "staff": 7300,
  "annual_patients": null,
  "annual_foreign_patients": null,
  "foreign_patient_countries": 167,
  "note": "GROUP figures, not this hospital's: more than 1,510 beds and more than 7,300 employees across twelve hospitals and 92 medical units. The Şişli hospital's own bed count is not stated on its page. The country figure is where patients come from, not how many come; a patient who returns is not counted twice because nobody is counting patients at all here.",
  "as_of": "2026",
  "source": "s:memorial-about",
  "url": "https://www.memorial.com.tr/en/about-us"
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   "note": "twelve hospitals and 92 medical units in Istanbul, Antalya, Ankara, Kayseri and Diyarbakır, with information offices in Baku, Tirana, Sarajevo, Tashkent, Abuja, Constanța and Northern Cyprus"
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   "note": "the first private Turkish hospital licensed by the Ministry of Health for liver and kidney transplantation, March 2004"
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   "note": "the hospital page lists cancer control and heart control packages behind a contact form, with no figure",
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   "note": "the group's timeline places the award between the 2000 opening and the 2004 transplant licence but prints no year against it"
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   "note": "March 2004; a transplant licence rather than a health tourism authorisation, recorded under the same regulator"
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   "note": "laboratory accreditations, stated by the group as firsts in Türkiye"
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