Tung Wah Hospital

Tung Wah Hospital
Hospital Authority and Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
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Tung Wah Hospital
Tung Wah Hospital is located in Hong Kong
Tung Wah Hospital
Geography
Location12 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°17′07″N 114°08′48″E / 22.28515°N 114.14673°E / 22.28515; 114.14673
Organisation
Care systemHospital Authority
FundingCharitable
TypeTeaching, Community
Affiliated universityLi Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
NetworkHong Kong West Cluster
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident and Emergency at Queen Mary Hospital
Beds633
History
Opened26 March 1870; 154 years ago (1870-03-26)
Links
Websitewww.ha.org.hk/twh/
ListsHospitals in Hong Kong
Designated18 December 2009; 14 years ago (2009-12-18)[1]
Reference no.183
Tung Wah Hospital
Traditional Chinese東華醫院
Simplified Chinese东华医院
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōnghuá Yīyuàn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDūng wàh yī yún
JyutpingDung1 waa4 ji1 jyun6*2

Tung Wah Hospital is a charitable hospital in Hong Kong under the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. Located above Possession Point at 12 Po Yan Street in Sheung Wan, it is the first hospital established in Colonial Hong Kong for the general public in the 1870s.

  1. ^ "List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment" (PDF). Antiquities Advisory Board. Hong Kong. 27 December 2013.