Kowloon Hospital
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Kowloon Hospital | |
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Hospital Authority | |
Geography | |
Location | 147A Argyle Street, Kowloon City District, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Coordinates | 22°19′27″N 114°10′47″E / 22.324125°N 114.179713°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | Teaching, Specialist |
Affiliated university | Medical Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Network | Kowloon Central Cluster |
Services | |
Emergency department | No, Accident and Emergency at Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
Beds | 1,335 |
History | |
Opened | 24 December 1925 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Hong Kong |
Designated | 18 December 2009[1] |
Reference no. | 231–238 |
Designated | 22 January 2010[1] |
Reference no. | 761 & 811 |
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Traditional Chinese | 九龍醫院 | ||||||||
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Kowloon Hospital is a general care hospital located in Kowloon City District,[2] in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The complex was built on land between Argyle Street and Prince Edward Road.
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
- ^ a b "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 27 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Kowloon City District Map" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
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