Government Regulation No.93/ 2015 stated, that teaching hospital have these three functions: health service, education, medical research, and dentistry. Moreover, hospital will provide doctor who required in the learning process because they can acknowledge students, giving sustainable exercises or even tutoring them privately in order to be a decent doctor, dentist and other health examiners. Therefore, Sam Ratulangi Teaching Hospital would be determined as one of the Teaching Hospital in Indonesia that initiated by Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education and the private consortium.
The hospital has six levels building and laid on local government land. It occupied by up to 300 out patients each day and around 130 inpatients every single day. In this case approximally the hospital has 100 beds in the first year and increase to 250 beds in the seven years.