The idea of the establishment of the founder King Abdullah University Hospital with the idea of setting up Jordan University of Science and Technology to be a center of excellence in providing high-quality health services and be transformational center of mass locally and in the Middle East.
It was prepared designs and specifications of the hospital to keep pace with the rapid development that took place in the hospital building technology as designed consists of a main tower building contains five ten - storey buildings low composed of three floors total area (95 583 m 2 ) operating a capacity of 678 beds can be increased to 819 beds in a state of emergency, has laid the late King his Majesty King Hussein bin Talal and cornerstone prefer slide Memorial curtain for building the hospital on 05/08/1994.