Kowloon Hospital
| Kowloon Hospital | |
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| Hospital Authority | |
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Kowloon Hospital Main Building | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 147A Argyle Street, Kowloon City, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Coordinates | 22°19′28″N 114°10′50″E / 22.32431°N 114.18046°ECoordinates: 22°19′28″N 114°10′50″E / 22.32431°N 114.18046°E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Hospital type | General, Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Medical Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Network | Kowloon Central Cluster |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 1,335 |
| History | |
| Founded | December 24, 1925 |
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| Website |
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| Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
| Designated | 2009-12-18[1] |
| Reference no. | 231–238 |
| Designated | 2010-01-22[1] |
| Reference no. | 761 & 811 |
Kowloon Hospital (Chinese: 九龍醫院) is a general care hospital at Prince Edward Road in Mong Kok of Kowloon in Hong Kong
The hospital used to be an acute hospital with accident and emergency service. It was later converted to a chronic hospital to provide extended supportive care to patients from Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The hospital has specialist services in psychiatry, rehabilitation, respiratory medicine and geriatrics. The respiratory medicine unit provides teaching opportunities for medical students from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
With 1,281 beds, the hospital was the first to establish a rehabilitation unit in Hong Kong.
References
- 1 2 "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 2013-12-27.
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