Hospital Sultan Ismail is a specialist tertiary hospital equipped with a fully computerized system known as Total Hospital Information System or THIS. The construction of this hospital is in line with the government's objective to make Malaysia a developed nation as outlined in Vision 2020 and the Vision of Malaysia's Ministry of Health. To achieve the above, this hospital is designed and equipped with sophisticated and world class equipments.


This modern electronic hospital provides 15 Secondary and 2 Tertiary services in addition to other support services, with 'day care' services as a priority service to more than 700,000 people in the 8 district and its surrounding areas. This hospital is aslo a National Reference Center (National Referral Centre) to the 'tertiary care' services provided.


The hospital is developed on a 50 acres area comprising of a 6-storey clinical block and a 10-storey ward blocks and also residential quarters.


The hospital is equipped with 22 wards, 18 operating room, including five theater for 'day care' services, 2 operating theater in the emergency department. The hospital is equipped with 704 beds. There are 4 First Class Wards and 18 Second and Third Class Ward. In addition, a total of 88 beds were provided in the Intensive Care Unit, coronary Care Unit (CCU), Neonatal ICU (NICU), Burns Unit and High Dependency Ward specifically for intensive treatment.