United Christian Hospital
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United Christian Hospital (Chinese:
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

 基督教聯合醫院) is an acute care hospital in Kwun Tong
Kwun Tong
Kwun Tong is an area in Kwun Tong District, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowloon Peak in the east to the north coast of the former Kai Tak Airport runway in...

 of New Kowloon
New Kowloon
New Kowloon is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Tate's Cairn and Kowloon Peak...

 in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

, operated by the Hospital Authority
Hospital Authority
The Hospital Authority is a statutory body managing all the public hospitals and institutes in Hong Kong. It is managed by the Hospital Authority Board and is under the monitor of the Secretary for Food and Health of the Hong Kong Government. Its chairman is Mr...

. The hospital has 1,174 beds and staff of 3,000, serving East Kowloon in Hong Kong.

Founded in 1973, it has links to Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital is a hospital in Tai Po of the New Territories of Hong Kong.- History :The Alice Memorial Hospital was originally founded by missionaries in 1887. The hospital structure was built by a donation from Dr. Ho Kai in memory of this wife Alice. She died of typhoid...

 via the Hong Kong Christian Council. The hospital's first chief medical superintendent was Dr. Edward Hamilton Paterson.

Services

  • Accident & Emergency
  • Medicine & Geriatrics
  • General Surgery
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Paediatrics
  • Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery
  • Psychiatry
  • Intensive Care
  • Anaesthesia
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Pathology
  • Ear-Nose-Throat
  • Ophthalmology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Dentistry & Maxillofacial Surgery.


The hospital provides in-patient, day-patient and out-patient care; it also manages the psychiatry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and geriatric day hospital services of Yung Fung Shee Memorial Centre as well as the Eye Clinic, pharmacy and radiology services of the Pamela Youde Polyclinic at Cha Kwo Ling Road.

The hospital provides Community Nursing Services (CNS) to the patients in Kwun Tong.
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