Kowloon Hospital

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Kowloon Hospital
Hospital Authority
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Kowloon Hospital Main Building in November 2007
Kowloon Hospital
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Geography
Location147A Argyle Street, Kowloon City District, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°19′27″N114°10′47″E / 22.324125°N 114.179713°E / 22.324125; 114.179713 Coordinates: 22°19′27″N114°10′47″E / 22.324125°N 114.179713°E / 22.324125; 114.179713
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
Beds1,335
History
Opened24 December 1925;95 years ago (1925-12-24)
Links
Website www.ha.org.hk/kh
Lists Hospitals in Hong Kong
Designated18 December 2009;11 years ago (2009-12-18) [1]
Reference no.231–238
Designated22 January 2010;11 years ago (2010-01-22) [1]
Reference no.761 & 811
Kowloon Hospital
Traditional Chinese 九龍醫院

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.

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  1. 1 2 "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 27 December 2013.
  2. "Kowloon City District Map" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission . Retrieved 30 August 2019.