United Christian Hospital

United Christian Hospital (Chinese: 基督教聯合醫院) is an acute care hospital in Kwun Tong of New Kowloon in Hong Kong, operated by the Hospital Authority. 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 via the Hong Kong Christian Council.^[1] The hospital's first chief medical superintendent was Dr. Edward Hamilton Paterson.^[2]

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.^[3]

See also

• List of hospitals in Hong Kong

References